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🤿Deep Dive: Claude handles tasks without taking over your screen
🤝Our Sponsor: Your brand deserves its own voice
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⚡Quick Hits: The latest in AI, tech, and productivity
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🤖AI Made This: Interesting and inspiring creations made with AI
🤿 DEEP DIVE
Claude Can Now Work in the Background While You Keep Using Your Mac
Giving an AI control of your computer usually comes with an obvious inconvenience while it clicks, types, and opens apps, you’re stuck watching it use the machine.
Claude is getting around that.
Anthropic says Claude Cowork and Claude Code can now perform computer tasks in the background, leaving the screen, mouse, and keyboard free for the user. In other words, Claude can work on the computer without effectively taking it over.
Claude gets its own workspace
The new capability means Cowork and Code can click, type, and launch apps while you continue using the Mac normally.
If a task does require Claude to use the entire screen, it won’t simply take control, Claude will first ask for permission.
There’s another useful detail > background tasks can continue even after you step away, as long as the computer remains on. So the user doesn’t have to sit in front of the machine while Claude finishes what it was asked to do.
But direct computer control isn’t necessarily Claude’s first option.
Claude will initially try to complete a task through connected services such as Gmail, Google Drive, and Slack. If that doesn’t work, it can move to the web browser. Directly controlling the computer is described as the last resort.
That creates a kind of progression: use a connected service when possible, try the browser if necessary, and only then start interacting directly with the computer.
There’s a significant limitation
For now, background activity is limited to macOS and is available only to Claude Pro and Max users. It also has to be manually enabled.
And Windows users don’t have a timetable to work with yet. It’s unclear if or when the background feature will arrive on Windows.
The quick take
Claude Cowork and Claude Code can now click, type, and open apps in the background.
Users can keep working with their screen, mouse, and keyboard while Claude handles its task.
Claude can continue working when the user steps away, provided the computer stays on.
It tries connected services and the browser before resorting to direct computer control.
Background activity is currently limited to macOS for Claude Pro and Max users.
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⚡ QUICK HITS
The latest in AI, tech, and productivity worth knowing
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⚒ TOOL SNAPSHOTS
Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity
Keep conversations across your favorite AI tools easier to manage.
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Let Gemini spend its attention on the parts of video that matter.
Why it’s useful: Particularly useful for developers processing long videos, where selectively watching content can reduce token usage and cost while improving accuracy.
🤖 AI MADE THIS
Interesting and inspiring creations made with AI
21 AI-generated fashion designs from a contest, printed as wearable "prompt T-shirts" featuring both the AI artwork and the exact text prompt that created it.
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