🏢 Claude Cowork for office work

Good Morning! Anthropic is pushing Claude deeper into the office stack with new Cowork updates, less flashy than chatbots, but exactly where enterprise money lives. Plus, I’ll show you how to build a real, Swift-native iOS app using AI, directly from your browser.

Plus, in today’s AI newsletter:

• Anthropic Expands Claude Cowork for Office Work

• Meta’s AI Safety Chief Gets Burned by Her Own Agent

• Opal Gets AI Workflow Agents

• How to Build Native iOS Apps in One Prompt

• 4 new AI tools worth trying

AI TOOLS

🏢 Anthropic Expands Claude Cowork for Office Work

Anthropic announced new updates to Claude Cowork, letting its AI plug directly into common workplace tools and handle more end-to-end tasks across teams and roles.

• Claude Cowork now connects with Google Workspace, DocuSign, WordPress, and more

• New pre-built plugins automate workflows in HR, design, engineering, and finance

• Claude can complete multi-step tasks across Excel and PowerPoint while sharing context

• Available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users as part of a research preview

While less exciting than creative AI, office automation is where real revenue sits. By embedding Claude into everyday enterprise tools, Anthropic is positioning itself as a serious alternative to Microsoft and other incumbents in the AI-at-work race.

AI SAFETY

🧨 Meta’s AI Safety Chief Gets Burned by Her Own Agent

Meta AI alignment director Summer Yue revealed that her OpenClaw agent ignored stop commands and began mass-deleting emails from her real inbox, forcing her to manually shut it down.

• The agent behaved safely for weeks on a test inbox but lost its “confirm before acting” guardrail when exposed to a much larger real inbox

• Yue called it a “rookie mistake,” admitting alignment researchers aren’t immune to misalignment

• Elon Musk mocked the incident, posting that getting “p0wned by OpenClaw” doesn’t inspire confidence in AI safety claims

As AI agents gain direct access to inboxes, files, and digital lives, even experts are hitting dangerous edge cases. This incident is a warning sign that agentic AI is still early, and far from safe for everyday users without strong guardrails.

AI TOOLS

🧩 Google Opal Gets AI Workflow Agents

Google’s Opal platform now uses Gemini 3 Flash to automatically plan and build mini-apps from plain English instructions, no coding required. It’s a big step forward for “vibe coding” and no-code creation.

• Type a goal (like “track my grocery budget”) and Opal builds the full workflow automatically

• AI agents break tasks into steps and connect tools like Google Sheets for memory and data

• Interactive prompts ask for missing details to refine the app in real time

• Opal is now embedded in the Gemini web app, expanding access globally

Google is shifting no-code from drag-and-drop to true AI-led creation. By letting AI plan, reason, and execute workflows, Opal moves closer to a future where building software is as easy as explaining an idea.

HOW TO AI

🗂️ How to Build Native iOS Apps in One Prompt

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a real, Swift-native iOS app using AI, directly from your browser, without wrapping a website or touching Xcode manually.

🧰 Who is This For

• Vibe Coders who want to build entire apps without manual debugging.

• Software Engineers looking to reduce hallucinations in complex codebases.

• AI Researchers building agentic workflows and local tools.

• Anyone wanting to save money on tokens while getting higher-quality code.

STEP 1: The "One-Shot" Architecture Prompt

Rork Max uses Claude Opus 4.6, which is an absolute monster at complex reasoning and deep codebase generation.

Head over to the Rork web platform in your browser and log into your account. Once inside, look for the model controls at the top of the interface. Turn Rork Max on, this is critical, because it tells the system to generate native Swift code, not cross-platform code like React Native. Next, select Opus 4.6 from the model dropdown.

Now write a highly detailed and structured prompt. Don't just say "make a calendar." Define the core mechanics, the UI vibe, and the specific native features you want to hit (like "use ARKit to place furniture via the camera" or "include a Lock Screen widget for crypto prices").

STEP 2: Let the AI Generate the Full Swift App

After you submit your prompt, Rork begins breaking the request into a structured task list and starts generating the Swift codebase automatically. This phase takes longer than simple demos, because the model is reasoning through navigation, UI structure, data flow, and native APIs.

You’ll see progress updates as the agent works. A live iOS simulator preview appears directly in the browser, showing the app UI as it’s being built. At this stage, the app is already functional, but it’s still running in a simulated environment.

STEP 3: Bridge the App to Your Real iPhone

To run the app on your actual device, Rork uses a companion application that removes the usual Xcode and certificate headaches.

In the Rork web interface, click “Run on your device” in the top-right corner. This will prompt you to download the Rork Companion App on your computer. Install it, open it, and sign in using your Rork credentials.

Next, sign in with your Apple ID. You don’t need a paid Apple Developer account just to test, the companion app automatically handles temporary certificates and provisioning profiles behind the scenes.

This step acts as a secure bridge between the browser-generated code and Apple’s device permissions.

STEP 4: Deploy and Test the Native iOS App

Now connect your iPhone to your computer using a USB cable. Inside the Rork Companion App, your phone will appear as an available device.

Go back to your browser, click “Run on your device” again, and select your connected iPhone. Make sure your phone is unlocked.

Within seconds, the app icon appears directly on your iPhone’s home screen. This is a real, native iOS app, not a web view. You can open it, use hardware features like the camera or AR, test widgets, and interact with the system exactly like a production app.

DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday.

MacBook Pros with touch screens, due this fall, will have a Dynamic Island and a refreshed, dynamic UI optimized for touch or point-and-click input.

Anthropic starts rolling out Remote Control for Claude Code, letting users control a session begun in the terminal from the Claude mobile app or the web.

Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally next month as previously announced, delaying the change until H2 after it adds verification options.

🧑‍💻 Gemini 3.1 Pro: Google’s new, cheaper AI for complex and multimodal tasks

🎧 gpt-realtime-1.5: OpenAI’s improved real-time voice model

🤖 Manus: AI agents you can use on Telegram that remember things over time

🎶 Lyria 3: Google’s AI that makes music inside Gemini

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY

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See you tomorrow :)

- Dr. Alvaro Cintas