Anthropic’s Cowork brings Claude Code-style automation to nontechnical users on Mac, while raising new questions about file access, safety, and trust.

Anthropic has launched Cowork in research preview, bringing Claude’s agent workflow to local files and browser tasks for Max users on macOS.

Perplexity made its Personal Computer AI agent system available to everyone on Mac.

Google launches a native Gemini app for macOS 15+, enabling users to interact with the AI assistant without switching browser windows.