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Anthropic Folds Claude Cowork Into Claude, Adds Background Task Handoff
Anthropic is merging Claude Cowork and standard Claude chat into a single Claude experience. Users can hand off a task, close their laptop, and Claude keeps working on it. Rollout starts with Pro and Max plans on web, desktop and mobile, over the coming weeks.
What changes for operators — For a 10-200 person company already using Claude to draft reports, summarize tickets or prep sales materials, the practical change is fewer product surfaces to manage internally: no more deciding whether a task goes to Cowork or to chat. If the persistence claim holds up in practice, a team member could hand off a longer research or drafting task at the end of the day and pick up the result the next morning without babysitting a session, which matters for ops and support workflows that run outside standard hours. The catch is that this is a Pro/Max rollout over unspecified weeks, so teams on other plans or in early rollout windows should not plan workflows around it yet, and the actual feature boundaries are still unclear even to close observers.