AI Is Moving Beyond Chatbots. Claude Cowork Shows What Comes Next

TIME - Tech 

AI Is Moving Beyond Chatbots. The DNA file had been gathering dust in Pietro Schirano's computer for years. Then, earlier this month, he gave it to Claude Code--an "agentic coding tool" developed by Anthropic--for analysis. "I'm attaching my raw DNA file from Ancestry DNA," he told the tool. The AI spawned copies of itself on Schirano's computer, each one simulating an expert in a different part of the genome--one expert on cardiovascular disease, another on aging, a third on autoimmune disease.