Junior consultants called back to office as AI increases need for human skills

Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

Anthropic added a built-in browser to Claude's Cowork desktop app, ending the need for the Chrome extension for many web tasks.

1h ago ·thenewstack.io

From Plain English to a Live Dashboard: Automating Reporting with MCP

Someone in your Slack asks, "How many people signed up last week?" You open a SQL client, write a query you've written a dozen times before, run it, copy the number, and paste it back.

• MCP automates reporting by connecting AI assistants to databases through a permissioned interface
• MCP exposes resources (read-only data), tools (query execution), and prompts (reusable templates)
• AI drafts SQL queries based on schema, runs read-only queries, and saves them to a dashboard

1h ago ·dev.to