MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in you

📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that work

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself.

The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Microsoft's Copilot in the burgeoning market for AI-powered productivity tools.

"Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code," the company announced via its official Claude account on X. The feature arrives as a research preview available exclusively to Claude Max subscribers — Anthropic's power-user tier priced between $100 and $200 per month — through the macOS desktop application.

For the past year, the industry narrative has focused on large language models that can write poetry or debug code. With Cowork, Anthropic is betting that the real enterprise value lies in an AI that can open a folder, read a messy pile of receipts, and generate a structured expense report without human hand-holding.

How developers using a coding tool for vacation research inspired Anthropic's latest product

The genesis of Cowork lies in Anthropic's recent success with the developer community. In late 2024, the company released Claude Code, a terminal-based tool that allowed software engineers to automate rote programming tasks. The tool was a hit, but Anthropic noticed a peculiar trend: users were forcing the coding tool to perform non-coding labor.

According to Boris Cherny, an engineer at Anthropic, the company observed users deploying the developer tool for an unexpectedly diverse array of tasks.

"Since we launched Claude Code, we saw people using it for all sorts of non-coding work: doing vacation research, building slide decks, cleaning up your email, cancelling subscriptions, recovering wedding photos from a hard drive, monitoring plant growth, controlling your oven," Cherny wrote on X. "These use cases are diverse and surprising — the reason is that the underlying Claude Agent is the best agent, and Opus 4.5 is the best model."

Recognizing this shadow usage, Anthropic effectively stripped the command-line complexity from their developer tool to create a consumer-friendly interface. In its blog post announcing the feature, Anthropic explained that developers "quickly began using it for almost everything else," which "prompted us to build Cowork: a simpler way for anyone — not just developers — to work with Claude in the very same way."

Inside the folder-based architecture that lets Claude read, edit, and create files on your computer

Unlike a standard chat interface where a user pastes text for analysis, Cowork requires a different level of trust and access. Users designate a specific folder on their local machine that Claude can access. Within that sandbox, the AI agent can read existing files, modify them, or create entirely new ones.

Anthropic offers several illustrative examples: reorganizing a cluttered downloads folder by sorting and intelligently renaming each file, generating a spreadsheet of expenses from a collection of receipt screenshots, or drafting a report from scattered notes across multiple documents.

"In Cowork, you give Claude access to a folder on your computer. Claude can then read, edit, or create files in that folder," the company explained on X. "Try it to create a spreadsheet from a pile of screenshots, or produce a first draft from scattered notes."

The architecture relies on what is known as an "agentic loop." When a user assigns a task, the AI does not merely generate a text response. Instead, it formulates a plan, executes steps in parallel, checks its own work, and asks for clarification if it hits a roadblock. Users can queue multiple tasks and let Claude process them simultaneously — a workflow Anthropic describes as feeling "much less like a back-and-forth and much more like leaving messages for a coworker."

The system is built on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK, meaning it shares the same underlying architecture as Claude Code. Anthropic notes that Cowork "can take on many of the same tasks that Claude Code can handle, but in a more approachable form for non-coding tasks."

The recursive loop where AI builds AI: Claude Code reportedly wrote much of Claude Cowork

Perhaps the most remarkable detail surrounding Cowork's launch is the speed at which the tool was reportedly built — highlighting a recursive feedback loop where AI tools are being used to build better AI tools.

During a livestream hosted by Dan Shipper, Felix Rieseberg, an Anthropic employee, confirmed that the team built Cowork in approximately a week and a half.

Alex Volkov, who covers AI developments, expressed surprise at the timeline: "Holy shit Anthropic built 'Cowork' in the last… week and a half?!"

This prompted immediate speculation about how much of Cowork was itself built by Claude Code. Simon Smith, EVP of Generative AI at Klick Health, put it bluntly on X: "Claude Code wrote all of Claude Cowork. Can we all agree that we're in at least somewhat of a recursive improvement loop here?"

The implication is profound: Anthropic's AI coding agent may have substantially contributed to building its own non-technical sibling product. If true, this is one of the most visible examples yet of AI systems being used to accelerate their own development and expansion — a strategy that could widen the gap between AI labs that successfully deploy their own agents internally and those that do not.

Connectors, browser automation, and skills extend Cowork's reach beyond the local file system

Cowork doesn't operate in isolation. The feature integrates with Anthropic's existing ecosystem of connectors — tools that link Claude to external information sources and services such as Asana, Notion, PayPal, and other supported partners. Users who have configured these connections in the standard Claude interface can leverage them within Cowork sessions.

Additionally, Cowork can pair with Claude in Chrome, Anthropic's browser…

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🔗 Sumber: venturebeat.com

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: Could ‘alien-looking’ giant airship over Chinese city transfor

The successful launch and testing of a giant airship-come-wind-turbine earlier this month has prompted discussion on whether they could be the future of sustainable power in China.

Called the S2000 Stratosphere Airborne Wind Energy System (SAWES), this 197-foot (60 meters) long, 131-foot (40 meters) wide, and 131-foot-high airship can, reportedly, generate megawatts worth of juice when connected to the grid.

The airship is an example of a technology called high-altitude wind energy (HAWE), which is effectively a floating wind turbine or generator. The S2000, in particular, is helium-filled and remains tethered to the ground when in operation.

To this end, the S2000 can operate where winds are stronger and more consistent than near the ground. At altitudes of between 1,641 feet (500 meters) and 9,843 feet (3,000 meters), winds tend to be faster, more stable, and more consistent.

Because wind power scales with the cube of wind speed, even modest increases in wind speed can massively increase energy output. That’s why the idea of using airships to host wind turbines keeps resurfacing despite being technically difficult.

Airship wind turbines: the future for China?

During its groundbreaking test earlier this month, an S2000 ascended to around 6,561 feet (2,000 meters) in about 30 minutes. Once in position, it was able to generate around 385 kWh over a few hours of testing.

That is enough electricity for about 6 electric vehicle charges, or enough to supply an average city household in China for about a month. That might sound modest, but it is important to note that the test was not at the technology’s full potential.

The claimed maximum capacity is 3 megawatts, which would put it roughly on par with a medium-sized conventional wind turbine.

Visually, the S2000 resembles a fantasy-style airship featuring a large egg shaped fueslage siting inside a large donut-shaped ring. This ring also features large stabilizers.

Sited between the main body and outer ring is a series of turbine blades in a concentric setup. This ducted-typed setup, its designers explain, helps guide and compress wind before it reaches the turbines, improving overall efficiency.

“It’s like wrapping the wind from all sides, constraining the airflow within this duct so that as much wind as possible is captured by the blades. We have deployed 12 wind turbines on this duct,” Weng Hanke, chief technology officer of Linyi Yunchuan, told Hunan TV at the time of the test.

The test was a huge success, and, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), led to something of a media storm. This is not just because the S2000 is visually stunning, but also because of its novelty.

Looks like an alien spaceship

Commentators were quick to point out its “alien spaceship” appearance and other science fiction comparisons. However, the Chinese government could potentially be very interested in the technology moving forward.

China has strong incentives to experiment with this kind of technology, especially in densely populated locations or areas with competing land use requirements. Such locations make it difficult to authorize the construction of large wind farms that require a lot of space.

By placing wind turbines in the air, this overcomes land use pressures and also makes the technology more flexible for places like cities. To this end, China is willing to fund and test large, risky infrastructure ideas like the S2000.

Even partial success of this technology could be valuable at the national scale, the SCMP reports. That all said, it is important to note that large flying/floating wind farms are not yet proven at scale.

While recent testing was successful, it is to be seen how durable things like long-term tethering are. It is also unclear how durable airships like the S2000 are to storms and how they fit into airspace safety regulations.

There is also the issue of longterm maintanence requirements and protocols, and the economics might not be favorable over continental wind turbines and storage.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com