Anthropic's Claude Cowork heads to the cloud as data shows 90% of sessions aren't for coding

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Claude Cowork is becoming a cloud-based AI helper.

Desktop still offers the fullest Cowork experience.

Anthropic said 90% of Cowork use is not coding.

Anthropic announced today it's bringing the agentic helper for Claude users, Claude Cowork, to the web and mobile devices. After analyzing 1.2 million Cowork sessions, Anthropic is also sharing some unexpected usage details.

Let's start with the Cowork upgrade.

The work around the work

Anthropic also introduced a new phrase to describe Cowork: the work around the work.

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