Anthropic’s Claude Code and Cowork can control your computer
Anthropic has updated Claude to perform tasks in its Code and Cowork AI tools autonomously by using your computer for you. The new feature can be used to automatically open files, use web browsers and apps, and run dev tools "with no setup required," even when you're away from your computer, according to Anthropic's announcement.
These new capabilities are available as a research preview for Claude Pro and Max subscribers, and computer usage is limited to macOS "for now," according to Anthropic. The feature builds on autonomous capabilities that were introduced on Claude's 3.5 Sonnet AI model in 2024, but now brings those to the chatbot's C …