{
  "id": 3311415,
  "title": "Anthropic's Claude and Cowork will share memories about you now - unless you opt out",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/anthropics-claude-and-cowork-will-share-memories-about-you-now-unless",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-25T17:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ZDNet",
    "slug": "zdnet",
    "url": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-claude-and-cowork-share-memories-now-unless-you-opt-out/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Anthropic recently announced that the memory systems for its chatbot Claude and coworking tool Claude Cowork will now share information. This means that whatever you do in Claude chat will be remembered by Cowork, and vice versa. Anthropic explained that Claude's memory is now two-way, with information flowing between the two platforms. For instance, if you ask Cowork to draft an update for your manager, it will already know about you and how they prefer updates to be written. Similarly, if you brainstorm a conference agenda in chat, Cowork will have the necessary details, such as headcount, city, and speakers, when creating the budget and logistics document. This update doesn't affect Claude Code, as Anthropic noted that what happens in Claude Code remains confined to that platform. The company also mentioned that they made changes to how Claude adds topics to memory, now adding them dynamically as conversations progress instead of summarizing them after they end. Users can pause or reset memory at any time, and Claude has robust controls over sensitive topics, defaulting to not storing personal or sensitive information. However, users can grant Claude permission to remember sensitive information like medical conditions or gluten allergies. Memory features are available across all tiers of chat and Cowork, but saving sensitive topics is turned off by default for most users and requires eligibility for enterprise and team plans.",
  "summary": "Anthropic is merging Claude chat and Cowork memory, raising privacy questions about what AI remembers and if it's worth the tradeoff.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 7,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Anthropic gives chat and Cowork one memory",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/anthropic-gives-chat-and-cowork-one-memory",
        "published": "2026-08-25T17:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "SiliconANGLE",
        "title": "Anthropic updates Claude’s memory to enhance customization and protect sensitive topics",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/anthropic-updates-claudes-memory-to-enhance-customization-and-protect",
        "published": "2026-08-25T17:00:22.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "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)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/anthropic-merges-the-memory-systems-for-claude-chat-and-claude-cowork",
        "published": "2026-08-25T17:10:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CNET",
        "title": "Anthropic Unifies Memory Across Claude and Cowork",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/anthropic-unifies-memory-across-claude-and-cowork",
        "published": "2026-08-25T17:18:30.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "9to5Mac",
        "title": "Anthropic update unifies memory feature across Claude Cowork and chat",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/anthropic-update-unifies-memory-feature-across-claude-cowork-and-chat",
        "published": "2026-08-25T17:20:08.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/claude-cowork-finally-remembers-what-you-told-the-app-in-chat",
        "published": "2026-08-25T17:50:33.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}