Anthropic Gives Claude AI Power to Control Your Mac

Anthropic has announced that its Claude Code and Claude Cowork tools are being updated to accomplish tasks using your computer, with these AI resources becoming capableof opening files, using the browser and running dev tools. When enabled, the Claude AI chatbot will first prioritize connectors to supported services suchas the Google workplace suite or Slack, but if a connector isn't available, it will be able to still execute an assigned task. Claude should ask for permission before taking these actions, but Anthropic still recommends not using this feature to handle sensitive information as a precaution. Claude computer use will initially be available to Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers on macOS, with this feature still in a research preview that will continue to be adjusted based on Anthropic's user feedback.