Anthropic has launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web. Cowork sessions now run in the cloud by default, so tasks keep working after you close your laptop, and scheduled tasks run with no device online at all. Beta access is rolling out over the next several weeks, starting with Max users, with more plans to follow. Anthropic also extended doubled Cowork five-hour usage limits through August 5; weekly usage limits remain unchanged.
The company says it sampled 1.2 million anonymized and aggregated Cowork sessions from May 11-31, across more than 600,000 organizations. Business process and operations led at 33.4 percent: reconciling spend, building onboarding checklists, and pulling scattered updates into one report. Content creation and copywriting followed at 16.4 percent. Software development accounted for 8.7 percent of sampled sessions. A product that started as a bridge between Claude and Claude Code is not spending most of its time doing office work.
None of this surprises me. I’ve been doing a version of this on my phone for months using different tools like Telegram, Moshi, and Echo. Developers tolerate friction. Nobody else does. Cutting the cord (so to speak) turns everyone’s Cowork projects into background labor. As this rollout reaches your plan, anyone will be able to run workflows and agents 24/7 without any special tooling; it’s literally built-in.
While Anthropic is graciously running doubled five-hour Cowork usage limits, go ahead and set up some always-on, run-all-day-and-all-night projects. Claude will ping you when it needs your input. It’s super fun (and super productive). LMK how you do.
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Author’s note: This is not a sponsored post. I am the author of this article and it expresses my own opinions. I am not, nor is my company, receiving compensation for it. This work was created with the assistance of various generative AI models.