Anthropic’s Cowork brings Claude Code–style AI agents to the desktop, letting Claude access and manage local files and browse the web—boosting productivity while raising new security and trust risks.

Anthropic launched the original Claude Code back in November 2024 and it has gone on to become one of the company’s most popular products. It has built on that success, launching multiple updates in recent months, introducing a new web interface in October and a Slack integration in December, but today’s update makes it vastly more accessible.

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Anthropic releases its Agent Skills framework as an open standard, with Microsoft, OpenAI, Atlassian, and Figma already adopting the technology that teaches AI assistants to do specialized work.

Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic PBC debuted new healthcare and life sciences capabilities in its flagship chatbot Claude today, saying users can now share their medical records with the service to better understand their health.

Anthropic has unveiled new tools that enable both users and service providers to handle medical data, echoing steps already taken by OpenAI.

Thomson Reuters, via its Labs division, has created a Trust in AI Alliance that includes senior engineering and product leaders from Anthropic, AWS, Google Cloud and OpenAI, the global company

Anthropic reportedly plans to secure $10 billion in a funding round, which would value the company at $350 billion.