The AI That Built Itself In 10 Days Now Wants Access To Your Desktop

Anthropic launched Cowork, a desktop application that brings the autonomous capabilities of its Claude Code developer tool to non-technical users, allowing the AI agent to organize folders, create documents, and generate spreadsheets with direct file system access. Built in just 10 days using Claude Code itself, the tool operates within a virtual machine sandbox and costs $100-200 monthly, positioning it against Microsoft's Copilot while raising security concerns about granting file manipulation privileges to AI systems that could misinterpret instructions.