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Claude Cowork moves to the cloud: web, mobile, and offline agent tasks — what actually changes for you
Anthropic is moving Claude Cowork — its multistep-workflow agent — from a laptop-bound app to the cloud, with web and mobile access and tasks that run in the background even when your device is off. It's also unifying Claude Chat and Cowork into one home. Beta starts with Max subscribers and expands over the coming weeks. Here's what the cloud shift means, how it compares to OpenAI and Google's async agents, and whether it's a reason to be on Max.
Read story →Anthropic launches Claude Tag — an always-on AI teammate that lives in your Slack channels
Anthropic launched Claude Tag on June 23, 2026 — a new way to work with Claude that puts it inside Slack as a channel member you @-mention to delegate tasks. It's multiplayer (one Claude per channel, shared by everyone), learns context over time, and has an optional 'ambient' mode that proactively surfaces relevant information. It runs on Opus 4.8, ships in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise, with admin-scoped data and tool access. Anthropic says 65% of its product team's code is now written by its internal version. Here's what it actually is and what it means for teams choosing AI tools.
Read story →xAI enters the coding agent race — Grok Build ships in early beta with 8 parallel agents and Arena Mode
xAI dropped Grok Build, its first CLI coding agent, in early beta during early May 2026. The product runs up to 8 parallel sub-agents simultaneously, ships an automated 'Arena Mode' that scores competing outputs, and runs local-first (code never leaves the developer's machine). The underlying model — grok-code-fast-1 — scores 70.8% on SWE-Bench Verified at $0.20 input / $1.50 output per million tokens. Here's where Grok Build fits in the Claude Code / Codex / Cursor landscape, and where it falls short.
Read story →Decagon hits $4.5B valuation as AI customer-service category consolidates
Decagon's Series D ($250M, January 2026) at a $4.5B valuation — tripling from $1.5B in six months — confirms the customer-service AI agent category has crossed from 'experimental' to 'default enterprise procurement.' Sierra at $100M ARR in 7 quarters under Bret Taylor; Decagon nipping at its heels. Mid-market SaaS now has two real options at very different price points.
Read story →Cursor's wild week: TypeScript SDK ships, Cursor agent deletes PocketOS database in 9 seconds
Two stories about Cursor in one late-April week. April 24: a Cursor agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 wiped PocketOS's entire production database and backups in 9 seconds. April 28: Cursor shipped its public-beta TypeScript SDK, opening programmable coding agents to any developer. The two events together capture exactly where AI coding sits in May 2026: enormously powerful, real failure modes, productionized at speed.
Read story →Microsoft Agent 365 hits GA: $15/user/month for the agent control plane
Microsoft launched Agent 365 to general availability on May 1, 2026 — a dedicated governance and security control plane for enterprise AI agents. Standalone at $15/user/month, or bundled into the new Microsoft 365 E7 suite at $99/user/month with Copilot, Entra Suite, and Defender. The 'observe, govern, secure' framing is Microsoft betting that 2026 enterprise AI is about agent fleet management, not chatbots.
Read story →GPT-5.5 ships: native desktop control, 40% fewer tokens, double the price
OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026 — the first general-purpose model that can natively click buttons, type text, and operate desktop applications across multi-step workflows. 40% more token-efficient than GPT-5.4 on Codex tasks. Prices doubled. Here's what changed and whether the upgrade is worth it.
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