Anthropic on Tuesday debuted versions of its Claude Cowork agentic AI platform for both smartphones and the web, and provided a deeper look at how its customers are using the agentic software. The service allows users to delegate tasks to an AI agent and will now continue to run even if none of your devices are online. According to the company, based on a sample of 1.2 million anonymized and aggregated Cowork sessions, 33.4% of customers used Cowork for "business process and operations," including "things like pulling scattered updates into a single report, building onboarding checklists, and reconciling spreadsheets." Another 16.4% used Cowork to produce slide decks, draft documents, and put together various proposals, which the company frames as "the work around the work." The announcement is a departure for Anthropic, whose CEO and co-founder, Dario Amodei, has frequently pointed to the potential for AI to cause major job losses, and is part of a larger trend among Silicon Valley and AI companies looking to soften the rhetoric around the topic.