Six weeks ago, Anthropic shipped Cowork as a research preview on macOS. This week it has scheduled tasks, an enterprise plugin marketplace and 13 new MCP connectors. That is an absurd pace of iteration.
The scheduled tasks feature is the one worth paying attention to. You write a prompt once, pick a cadence and Claude runs it automatically. No code, no APIs, no Zapier glue. Morning briefing from your inbox? Friday status report from project docs? Set it and forget it.
This is the moment AI assistants stop being reactive and start being proactive. Every major lab is converging on the same realisation: chat is a transitional form. The future isn’t “talk to the AI.” It’s “the AI does the work on a schedule and surfaces results when you need them.”
Anthropic shipped Windows parity on February 10. Sonnet 4.6 became the default on February 17. Scheduled tasks landed this week. Three major capability drops in three weeks. The limiting factor is no longer “can the AI do this?” It’s “have you set it up to run while you sleep?”
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