Meet Your New Coworker: Anthropic’s Claude Now Controls Your Mac

Anthropic announced “Claude Cowork,” a preview feature that extends Claude’s capabilities to local computer use on macOS, enabling natural-language file organization, financial data extraction, and web/app orchestration via connectors with sandboxed permissions and asynchronous tasking. Positioned for non-technical users and available to Claude Max subscribers, the tool aims to bring agentic AI to mainstream productivity while acknowledging risks like unintended file changes and emphasizing precise user instructions.