Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic launched Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that allows non-technical users to work with files on their computer without coding, available as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers ($100-200/month). The tool was reportedly built in approximately 1.5 weeks largely using Claude Code itself, demonstrating how AI tools are being used to develop better AI tools.