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July 8, 2026

Claude's AI Assistant Now Works From Your Phone

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Claude brings its AI assistant to your phone for background tasks, and Meta AI upgrades its image creation tools across its apps.

Claude

Claude

You can now use the Claude Cowork assistant on your phone, not just on a computer.

The era of half-cracking a laptop to keep AI agents running comes to a close. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent designed to perform digital tasks for you, is expanding beyond the desktop app. | You don’t need to leave your device active, aka laptop cracked open, to keep the agent going and run scheduled tasks overnight. Anthropic also announced limited versions of Cowork for users to i… The era of half-cracking a laptop to keep AI agents running comes to a close. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent designed to perform digital tasks for you, is expanding beyond the desktop app. You don’t need to leave your device active, aka laptop cracked open, to keep the agent going and run scheduled tasks overnight. Anthropic also announced limited versions of Cowork for users to interact with via its existing Claude smartpho… In the launch video for this feature, Anthropic shows someone asking for help with a business deal renewal…

Source · Claude Cowork Expands to Mobile
Source · Claude Cowork Expands to Mobile

Claude

The assistant can now run tasks for you in the background, even if you close your laptop.

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | Stevie Bonifield Close Stevie Bonifield News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Stevie Bonifield | Claude Cowork will also run in the cloud now, so it can keep working on tasks even when you close your… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News Stevie Bonifield Close Stevie Bonifield News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Stevie Bonifield Claude Cowork will also run in the cloud now, so it can keep working on tasks even when you close your laptop. Your AI assistant can now work from your phone.

Source · Claude Cowork Now Runs in the Cloud
Source · Claude Cowork Now Runs in the Cloud

Claude

Claude Cowork — Anthropic’s Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work — is coming to your phone.

Claude Cowork — Anthropic’s Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work — is coming to your phone. | The product expansion is a signal that Anthropic wants Cowork to feel less like a coding tool for dummies and more like an agentic administrative coworker: something that can work in the background, tag along across devices, and request hu… | In other words: The coding agent wars are spilling into the rest of… Claude Cowork — Anthropic’s Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work — is coming to your phone. The product expansion is a signal that Anthropic wants Cowork to feel less like a coding tool for dummies and more like an agentic administrative coworker: something that can work in the background, tag along across devices, and request hu… In other words: The coding agent wars are spilling into the rest of the office. Your AI assistant can now work from your phone.

Source · Coding Agent Wars Spill Over
Source · Coding Agent Wars Spill Over
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Meta AI

Meta AI

A new image generator called Muse Image now powers the AI tools in Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Meta AI app.

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Emma Roth | Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Emma Roth Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it’s coming soon to Facebook and… Create AI images with a new, smarter tool.……

Source · Meta's New Muse Image Model
Source · Meta's New Muse Image Model

Perplexity

Perplexity

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type | Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed | New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs. Learn more → Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs. Learn more → Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs…

Source · Changelog
Source · Changelog

Claude Code

Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it. The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by… The Making of Claude Code

Source · The Making of Claude Code
Source · The Making of Claude Code

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company

“The world is in on the secret now and it feels possible to work on the mission from outside the walls of a frontier lab,” Achiam said in a note to staff obtained by WIRED. “I believe we can get to a world of peace, unprecedented prosperit… | OpenAI has reorganized its safety, product, and research teams numerous times since ChatGPT launched in 2022, after which the company grew rapidly from a small research lab int… “The world is in on the secret now and it feels possible to work on the mission from outside the walls of a frontier lab,” Achiam said in a note to staff obtained by WIRED. “I believe we can get to a world of peace, unprecedented prosperit… OpenAI has reorganized its safety, product, and research teams numerous times since ChatGPT launched in 2022, after which the company grew rapidly from a small research lab into a massive tech company. In 2024, OpenAI announced the formati… After joining OpenAI as an intern in 2017, Achiam went on to become a research scientist…

Source · OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
Source · OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company