Claude Cowork expands AI work tools, rattling markets
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Anthropic rolled out Claude Cowork with industry-specific plugins and the ability to create private, customizable AI agents that can automate or augment tasks across departments and connect to apps like Google Drive, Gmail, and Excel. The announcement sparked a market sell-off as investors weigh AI-enabled disruption against augmentation, while economists caution that AI’s impact depends on whether tasks are automated or augmented and on how humans collaborate with machines.
- Anthropic’s Claude Comes for Knowledge Work as Markets Freak Out Gizmodo
- Anthropic is doubling down on the tech that raised questions about AI coming for office jobs CNN
- Anthropic updates Claude Cowork tool built to give the average office worker a productivity boost CNBC
- Anthropic and OpenAI Take Different Stances On Disrupting Software Incumbents The Information
- Stocks up, rebounding as Anthropic unveils uses for AI plugins Reuters
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