Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork memory, on by default

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Anything you tell Claude in a chat window is now available to Claude Cowork. Anything Cowork learns comes back the other way.

Anthropic merged the two memory systems on Tuesday. Wherever you work with Claude, it starts from what it already knows about you, the company said in its announcement.

The feature is on by default for consumers, on the Free, Pro and Max plans, across web, desktop and mobile.

The second change is the one to notice

Claude now adds topics to memory while you are still talking. It used to wait until a conversation ended and summarise it.

Mention that a deadline moved to September, and the next conversation knows. You do not have to say “remember this”.

That changes when the system captures data. It also removes the pause at the end of a conversation, which is the point at which a user might have decided...

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