The AI that keeps working after you close your laptop

Claude Cowork now works from your pocket

Anthropic just moved Claude Cowork out of its desktop-only phase and onto the web and mobile, which changes how it fits into a normal workday. Cowork is the non-coding side of Claude's agent work: you describe a task, and it works across your files, calendar, inbox, and the open web until the job is actually done. The update that matters is background execution. A session can keep running after you close your laptop, and scheduled tasks can fire with no device online at all. Approvals come to your phone, so you can green-light a step from a coffee line instead of your desk.

Anthropic also shared a look at how people really use it. Across 1.2 million anonymized sessions it studied from May, the biggest category was not coding. Business operations and process work led at 33.4%, more than double content creation and copywriting at 16.4%, while software development sat at just 8.7%. That is a useful signal for freelancers and operators: the tool is being pointed at the admin layer of work, not just engineering.

One caution. The web and mobile versions do not yet have the desktop app's local file access or browser control, so heavier tasks still belong on desktop. Background agents also widen your exposure, so keep connected-app permissions tight and scoped. Access is rolling out first on the higher Max plan before reaching more tiers.

Read the TechCrunch report and Anthropic's release notes.

Stop debugging spreadsheet formulas by hand

If you live in Google Sheets, you have lost time staring at a #REF! or #VALUE! error with no idea what broke. Gemini in Sheets now fixes that in one click, right inside the grid. When a cell throws an error, hover over it and choose Fix. A side panel opens, explains in plain language what went wrong, and offers a corrected formula you can drop straight in. No copying error codes into a separate chat window.

It is genuinely faster than the old routine, but know the edges. It only triggers on visible errors, so it will not catch a formula that runs cleanly while quietly summing the wrong column. It is also limited to paid Workspace and Google AI tiers, so free accounts miss out for now. The feature is rolling out gradually, so give it a couple of weeks if you do not see it yet.

See Google's rollout note.

X made itself easier for AI to read

X quietly shipped a hosted connection point that lets AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and Grok tap into the X API through your own account permissions, without a developer building and hosting the plumbing. In plain terms, it is now much easier to point an AI tool at X's real-time feed and have it search, read, and analyze what is happening.

For anyone doing social listening, trend spotting, or audience research, that lowers the barrier a lot. You can ask an AI to scan the conversation around a topic and summarize the mood without exporting anything by hand. The limit worth knowing: it adds no new powers, and it cannot post. X confirmed the connection does not work with its posting endpoints, so this is a read-and-analyze tool, not a publishing one. Standard API costs and data-quality caveats still apply.

Read the TechCrunch story.