📸 Claude Co-work is a game changer.

Inside Anthropic’s first real agent, 11Labs Scribe V2, and 3D camera control.

January 17, 2026

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My fellow AI explorers

I’ve been deep in the trenches with Claude’s new Co-work environment, and the transformation is starting to get real.

In today’s edition:

  • đź’Ľ Claude Co-work in Practice: My follow-up on the first real "consumer agent"

  • 🎙️ 11Labs Scribe V2: The new state-of-the-art for flawless transcription

  • 📸 3D Camera Control: Changing the angle of your photos after they’re taken

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Anthropic

Anthropic’s latest research preview is the first consumer product from a major lab that prioritizes doing over telling. After a week of heavy testing, it’s clear that Co-work isn’t just a UI facelift, it’s a proactive partner that uses "Skills" to automate your business processes.

  • Proactive "To-Do" Lists: Unlike standard chat, Co-work builds a roadmap of tasks it needs to complete and checks them off in real-time.

  • Skill Integration: You can now bake your brand guidelines or specific SOPs into "Skills" (Markdown files) that Claude references for every action.

  • The "Chrome" Hurdle: While it uses the Claude Chrome extension to browse, it still gets stuck on complex site structures, requiring a manual "nudge" every now and then.

The real power here is in batch processing. Whether you’re a lawyer summarizing 80 documents or a creator repurposing a month of content, Co-work excels at repetitive knowledge work. It’s essentially a "Business Process Automation" agent in a friendly skin. It isn't perfect—it still struggles to fetch YouTube transcripts natively—but it's the most achievable agentic workflow we've seen yet.

đź”® Prediction: In 2026, we’ll stop talking about "prompting" and start talking about "training" our personal agents. Expect "Skill Stores" to emerge where you can download pre-made workflows for specific industries.

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AI Voice

11Labs Scribe V2: The Death of the Human Transcriber? 

ElevenLabs just dropped Scribe V2, and it is officially the new state-of-the-art for turning audio into text. They’ve managed to shave down latency while significantly increasing accuracy, even when you throw multi-language "curved balls" at it.

  • Bilingual Mastery: Scribe V2 handles mid-sentence language switching (code-switching) better than Whisper or Gemini.

  • Technical Dictionary: It comes pre-loaded with AI and tech terminology, meaning it won't misspell "GPT-4o" or "LLM."

  • Developer Ready: While there’s a sleek UI in ElevenLabs Studios, the API allows builders to batch-process thousands of files with speaker detection.

For content creators, this is the gold standard. It’s no longer just about getting the words right; it’s about the speed and the ability to understand context. If you’re building voice-based AI tools, this is likely the engine you’ll want under the hood.

🧠 Takeaway: Transcription is becoming a "solved" problem. The value is shifting from transcription to insight extraction—what you do with that text once it’s flawless.

30-Second AI Play

🎨 Control the Camera in Your 2D Images 

Ever generated the perfect AI image but wished you could see it from a top-down angle or rotate the "camera"? Qwen Image Edit 2.5 is making that possible.

How to do it:

  1. Head over to the Qwen Image Multiple Angles space on Hugging Face.

  2. Upload a clear image (works best with portraits or simple objects).

  3. Use the 3D Camera UI to drag the camera to a new position (e.g., rotate 45 degrees to the left).

  4. Hit Generate and watch the model hallucinate the hidden sides of the object.

🔍 Why it’s special: It bridges the gap between 2D static images and 3D space. While it still struggles with complex glass or "nitpicky" details, the anatomy remains shockingly consistent. It’s a glimpse into a future where every "photo" is actually a 3D scene we can navigate.

Other Relevant AI News!

🎨 Midjourney released Niji V7, their latest anime-focused model, which produces some of the most unique aesthetics we've seen in generative art.

🏥 OpenAI for Healthcare launched, focusing on hospital-facing tools to help doctors reduce human error and make faster clinical decisions.

🎬 Google Veo 3.1 received a massive update, allowing users to upscale to 4K and seamlessly mix product "ingredients" into marketing videos.

🎮 Qwen is testing a new open-source framework that allows for real-time 3D manipulation of generated characters.

🛍️ Microsoft debuted Copilot Checkout, a new conversational commerce tool that lets brands build "shopping agents" directly into their sites.

Golden Nuggets

  • đź’Ľ Batch processing is the "killer app" for Claude Co-work—use it for repetitive knowledge work.

  • 🎙️ 11Labs Scribe V2 is now the king of transcription, handling language-switching with ease.

  • 📸 3D Camera Control is moving out of labs and into open-source creative tools.

Would love to hear your thoughts on Claude Cowork! Send me your thoughts by replying to this email (yes, I read them all :)

Until our next AI rendezvous,

Anthony | Founder of Uncover AI