Claude Cowork
5 storiesClaude Cowork is part of Anthropic's Claude lineup, alongside claude.ai, Claude Code and the Claude API. Recent coverage has centered on reliability: elevated errors across Claude models on September 22 and again on September 29, when sign-in, new chats and file uploads were affected. Anthropic's preliminary IPO prospectus also described "virtual colleagues" that run projects for days or weeks, and developer Christian released Hob, an open-source local alternative.
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Reuters reports Anthropic has filed a preliminary prospectus with the SEC for an IPO expected in mid-November. The filing describes AI evolving from assistive tools into autonomous systems that run projects for days or weeks, spawning 'virtual colleagues' with access to corporate files, software and databases. Claude Code writes, updates, tests and debugs code automatically, Claude Cowork extends this to administrative work, and the company envisions running millions of agents in parallel.
Developer Christian launched Hob, an MIT-licensed open-source desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that runs open-weight models (e.g., Gemma 4, gpt-oss) locally to process files. Features include automatic model selection, sandboxed Python code, built-in web search, MCP support, and image recognition. All chats and files stay on-device, with fully offline operation, aiming to provide ChatGPT/Claude-like file processing while ensuring privacy.
Anthropic reported elevated error rates starting 14:00 UTC on Sep 29 across claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude API; errors were mitigated by 14:36 UTC, but sign-in, new chats, voice sessions and file uploads remained affected, and signed-in users were told not to log out.
Anthropic says a two-week sprint made claude.ai and the Claude desktop app about 3x faster, cutting 75th-percentile typeable-page time on fresh loads from 3.1s to 0.55s. Using Claude Tag, an internal research model roughly comparable to Opus 5.5, it merged over 3,000 changes with no customer-facing incidents or rollbacks.
Anthropic's status page reported elevated errors on Claude Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5, affecting claude.ai, the API, Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Mythos and Fable requests have returned to normal while Opus 5 is still being fixed.
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Anthropic files for IPO expected in November
