Claude's AI Assistant Now Works From Your Phone

Claude brings its AI assistant to your phone for background tasks, and Meta AI upgrades its image creation tools across its apps.

Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

You can now use the Claude Cowork assistant on your phone, not just on a computer.

The era of half-cracking a laptop to keep AI agents running comes to a close. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent designed to perform digital tasks for you, is expanding beyond the desktop app.

You don’t need to leave your device active, aka laptop cracked open, to keep the agent going and run scheduled tasks overnight.

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Expanded summary · Claude

The assistant can now run tasks for you in the background, even if you close your laptop.

Stevie Bonifield Close Stevie Bonifield News Writer by Stevie Bonifield Claude Cowork will also run in the cloud now, so it can keep working on tasks even when you close your…

Claude Cowork will also run in the cloud now, so it can keep working on tasks even when you close your laptop.

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Expanded summary · Claude

Claude Cowork — Anthropic’s Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work — is coming to your phone.

The product expansion is a signal that Anthropic wants Cowork to feel less like a coding tool for dummies and more like an agentic administrative coworker: something that can work in the background, tag along across devices, and request hu…

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Meta AI

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A new image generator called Muse Image now powers the AI tools in Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Meta AI app.

Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer by Emma Roth Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now…

The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it’s coming soon to Facebook and…

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Perplexity

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Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control: Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter: Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs.

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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ChatGPT

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OpenAI has reorganized its safety, product, and research teams numerous times since ChatGPT launched in 2022, after which the company grew rapidly from a small research lab into a massive tech company.

OpenAI has reorganized its safety, product, and research teams numerous times since ChatGPT launched in 2022, after which the company grew rapidly from a small research lab int…

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