Claude Can Now Control Your Mac While You Sleep

I sent a single message from my iPhone while waiting for a subway, and 90 seconds later my MacBook Pro — sitting on my desk at home with the lid open — had launched Numbers, populated 30 cells with formatted revenue data, applied conditional formatting, and saved the file to iCloud. Nobody touched the keyboard. Nobody was in the room. That's Claude Computer Use, and it shipped on March 24, 2026. The Gap Between Chat and Action For the past three years, AI assistants have been extraordinarily good at one thing: generating text in a chat window. Ask a question, get an answer. Request a draft, receive prose. But there has always been a hard boundary between what AI could say and what AI could do. Computer Use erases that boundary. If you've been following Anthropic's recent releases, you'll know about Dispatch — the feature that lets you message Claude from your phone and assign tasks to your Mac. Post not found or has been removed. Computer Use is what happens after Claude receives that