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

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that w

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 Eksklusif ai: China reveals 198-ton ‘six-module’ plan for Tiangong spa

The US-China space race is set to intensify on the orbital front. With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, the US still has to finalize a potential replacement. 

On the other hand, China has already solidified its position in low Earth orbit with its Tiangong space station. In fact, recent reports suggest that China is planning to expand its space station in the coming years. 

The current T-shaped structure will transition into a cross-shaped configuration, eventually reaching a six-module structure. As per the plans, the expansion will add a multifunctional module larger than the current core.

Although a firm schedule remains under wraps, the expansion is designed to satisfy a growing need for orbital research and broaden horizons for global partnerships.

Space station expansion

The timing is everything. Since 1998, the ISS has been the undisputed heavyweight of orbit. As the largest man-made structure ever assembled in orbit, this 15-nation collaboration has served as a prolific orbital laboratory for thousands of microgravity-based experiments. 

But now, NASA plans to retire the aging giant, tasking a SpaceX “deorbit vehicle” with guiding the structure to a watery grave in the South Pacific.

If China hits its targets, Tiangong will be the only game in town, or to say orbit.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the evolution of the Tiangong is set to begin with the addition of a multifunctional extension to the Tianhe core.  

Designed as a central hub, this fourth module will provide several docking interfaces and a specialized airlock for spacewalks, while serving as the primary mounting point for two upcoming laboratory segments.

This modular expansion could also pave the way for a massive six-module assembly, ultimately bringing the station’s total mass to approximately 180 tonnes (198 tons). Altogether, the addition would boost its capacity for international research and long-term habitation.

Reportedly, this expansion is supported by hardware upgrades, including a more powerful, multi-stage Long March 5B rocket with an enlarged payload fairing.

In addition, engineers at the China Academy of Space Technology are enhancing the station’s robotic arms, giving them the precision and strength required for the increasingly complex assembly and maintenance tasks ahead.

International astronauts

Since its completion in 2022, the Tiangong space station — roughly the size of a three-bedroom apartment — has hosted over two dozen astronauts and supported more than 260 experiments. 

The station also made history when its crew clocked a record-breaking 9-hour, 6-minute spacewalk. This feat narrowly eclipsed the long-standing NASA record of eight hours and 56 minutes, which had remained unbeaten for 22 years.

Beijing is also changing who can become an astronaut. For years, the ISS was the exclusive club for 15 nations. Now, China is opening its airlocks. Astronauts from Pakistan, Hong Kong, and Macau are expected to join missions as early as this year. 

This is a pointed shift in space diplomacy. While NASA is barred by law from collaborating with China, Beijing is positioning Tiangong as a “global laboratory” open to anyone.

The station is designed to operate for 15 years, positioning it to potentially be the only operational space station in LEO once the ISS is deorbited by SpaceX in 2030.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com