Anthropic has added memory to Cowork, and it’s the same one Claude’s chatbot already uses, making it easier to pick up tasks without re-explaining important information. Memory is on by default, but won’t save sensitive topics like health or beliefs unless you manually enable that setting. [Image: You can edit or delete any of the saved memories in Claude and Cowork by checking topics under the settings menu. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/Claude-Cowork-memory.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]

Anthropic has added memory to Cowork, and it’s the same one Claude’s chatbot already uses, making it easier to pick up tasks without re-explaining important information. Memory is…

Anthropic is merging Claude chat and Cowork memory, raising privacy questions about what AI remembers and if it's worth the tradeoff.