Anthropic Moves Claude Cowork Tasks to Cloud Execution

Anthropic has shifted Claude Cowork from local to cloud-default processing, enabling tasks to run continuously across devices and in the background even when no user device is online. Scheduled tasks now persist independently. Desktop users retain the option to process locally, and Anthropic preserves cloud-or-local choice for enterprise data-residency requirements. The pattern echoes similar moves by Google Gemini and OpenAI.