TREE NEWS update: Anthropic released a research preview of Claude Duet, a proactive AI assistant powered by Opus 5.5, with a waitlist now open. The assistant runs on its own cloud computer, connects to users’ apps, delivers a morning briefing and keeps working on tasks while users are away, asking for consent before sensitive actions such as sending messages or making payments. The preview is limited to Claude Pro and Max users in the U.S. via iOS, Android and claude.ai; Team and Enterprise plans are excluded.
Anthropic Launches Claude Duet Proactive AI Assistant in Research Preview
AI take
The consent gate on sending messages and making payments is the detail that matters most here: it defines how far Anthropic is willing to let an agent act unsupervised, and that boundary will shape how enterprises think about adopting proactive assistants at all. The exclusion of Team and Enterprise plans, alongside the U.S.-only, paid-tier waitlist, signals a deliberately narrow rollout rather than a general release. Whether Duet's morning briefing and background task work prove reliable enough to justify expanding beyond Pro and Max is the open question.
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