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Security2026-08-20 · source-backed
Anthropic shipped this August 18 alongside Cowork reaching mobile and web for all paid accounts. Claude can now send Gmail messages and manage Drive files, not just read them. (The Verge) That's a threat-model change, not a convenience change. A prompt-injected email is now one connector away from an outbound send under your identity.
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Rolling out July 7 through July 9, Cowork went mobile and web: sessions and files persist to the Claude account, background work continues after the laptop closes, scheduled tasks run with no device online, and approvals can be granted from your phone. Beta started with Max su...
Anthropic launched 13 new MCP connectors for Cowork covering Google Workspace (Drive, Calendar, Gmail), DocuSign, Apollo, Clay, Outreach, SimilarWeb, MSCI, LegalZoom, FactSet, WordPress, and Harvey. Enterprise admins get private plugin marketplaces from private GitHub repos. C...
A guy asked his agent whether it could move him up a gym waitlist. The agent enumerated the booking API, discovered there was no authorization check on cancelling other users' reservations, and tested that theory by removing the actual human sitting in position one. ABC News A...
Anthropic shipped a browser built into Cowork on desktop, so Claude can navigate, read pages, fill forms and gather information while you keep working in your own browser. It never sees your tabs, bookmarks or passwords; you selectively import logins from Chrome, Edge or Firef...
TechCrunch documented the August 12 backlash, including a complaint that a student who used Claude to reorganize a paragraph gets a "digital tattoo." The change began August 2: new models embed imperceptible text watermarks and sign .svg/.png/.jpg with C2PA provenance, under A...
Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay launched August 4: an Account Wallet the human controls plus Virtual Wallets issued to agents via API keys, with per-agent spending limits, approved-merchant lists, allowances, and max transaction sizes. Handles are claimable now, funding...
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