Anthropic unifies Claude chat and Cowork memory systems

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Anthropic has merged the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, allowing chat history to be shared with Cowork unless users opt out. This eliminates the need to repeatedly provide context about projects and preferences across the two interfaces.

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Techmemelast month
Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
David Gewirtz / ZDNET : Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out — ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude chat and Cowork now share one memory system. — Memory updates as you chat, with sensitive-data controls.
TechCrunch AISarah Perezlast month
Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.