Anthropic Unveils Claude Duet for US Pro Users as AI Agent Race Expands

3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Oct 21

Claude Duet launched as a research preview for professionals and small business owners, with access limited to US Claude Pro or Max subscribers on a waitlist.
Anthropic said the agent works across iOS, Android and the web, using Claude Opus 5.5 plus connected apps, memory and a browser-based virtual machine to complete tasks.
The product is pitched for work use: it can send morning briefs, monitor apps for urgent items, schedule meetings, build dashboards, create forecasts, prototype and build web apps.
Anthropic built in approval checks before sensitive actions like payments or deletions and added a classifier to block sharing highly restricted data such as credit card numbers.
The launch puts Anthropic directly against Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, though the company said this early version can still misread threads, misjudge urgency and is weaker on personal errands.