Claude Cowork expands AI work tools, rattling markets
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.
