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

Anthropic — claude Cowork is moving to web and mobile, and new data shows it’s being used far beyond coding and software development. Can it safely replace OpenClaw for me?

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. Plus, the company has extended Fable 5 access to July 12.  Anthropic also introduced a new phrase to describe Cowork: the work around the work.  The premise is that professionals have a ton of domain expertise, but a lot of their time is consumed doing administrivia tasks, like digging through emails, consolidating spreadsheets, organizing files, and whatnot. Those tasks aren't technically "the work." They're the work you do to get the work done, hence, "the work around the work." Also: I loved ChatGPT Desktop until OpenAI gutted it to make room for Codex and Work According to the company, "It's the work around the work: rarely in anyone's job description, but a large share of everyone's week." While some of this administrative support work does need to be done on the desktop, most of it doesn't. Last weekend, I set Cowork loose on my site to find vulnerabilities. None of that required it to run on my desktop. It could have easily run in the cloud.  According to the company, a user can start a task at a desk, check progress from a phone, and pick up finished output from any browser. It says you no longer need your laptop open to run Cowork. I normally run Cowork on my massive Mac Studio with 128GB of RAM and a 38-inch monitor, but it's the same idea. The machine could be off, and the task would still run. "Close the laptop and head to your meeting; Claude keeps going," said Anthropic. For some reason, I keep flashing on pictures in my head of the Energizer bunny. Also: Claude Fable 5 is back, but I'm sticking with Opus 4.8 for daily work: 5 reasons why In fact, scheduled tasks can work entirely online as long as the task itself is online. So Cowork can sift through email threads, check transcripts, and examine news, all while you sleep. The limitation is that you have to use connected apps.