One of the most annoying parts of working with an AI assistant is having to explain yourself all over again. Claude is trying to fix that. Starting today, the memory Claude uses in chat is also available in Claude Cowork, meaning the context you’ve built up over months of conversations can follow you when you hand Claude a task.
That means Claude can know about your projects, priorities, and preferences without requiring another lengthy briefing. Explain in chat how your team defines its metrics, for example, and Cowork can use that information when building your next quarterly business review. Discuss a conference in chat, and Cowork can carry over details like the city, speakers, and headcount when it works on the logistics.
There’s another change here that’s arguably just as important: Claude’s memory now updates as you chat, rather than waiting until a conversation ends to summarize it. Mention that a project deadline has moved to September, and Claude can carry that information into your next conversation without you having to explicitly tell it to remember.
And crucially, users get to see what Claude actually remembers. Saved memories appear as individual files organized by topic, which users can read, edit, or delete. Correct something once, and the change applies across future conversations and Cowork tasks.
By default, Claude won’t save sensitive subjects such as health, race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, politics, or gender identity. But users who want Claude to remember those details can now enable “include sensitive topics in memory.” When Claude saves something involving one of those topics, users will see a notice, and the setting can be switched off at any time.
What’s more, is that there are still some categories Claude won’t store even with sensitive memory enabled, including sensitive identification numbers, criminal history, and immigration status. Additionally, memory can also be paused or reset whenever users want.
The broader idea is pretty straightforward: Claude is trying to make memory feel less like a hidden AI trick and more like a personal workspace you actually control. And by making that memory follow you from chat to Cowork and back again, Anthropic is removing one of the biggest annoyances of working with AI: having to tell it the same thing for the 47th time.
AI companies spend enormous amounts of time convincing us their technology is safe and secure. But what happens when those same companies become targets of increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now facing that question. According to a Washington Post report, cybersecurity startup Cathedral discovered vulnerabilities that let its researchers access sensitive information in Anthropic's internal systems.
The researchers used AI agents to identify potential entry points in less than 12 hours. Interestingly, they didn't need to crack Claude itself. Instead, they exploited weaknesses in third-party business applications that Anthropic uses for everyday operations. Anthropic's security testing program disclosed the findings, which allows outside researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities.
Military working dogs charge into places the rest of us would flee. So, I understand why anyone would want to breed tougher, healthier dogs for the job.
Warhound, a new startup from Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, has stepped out of stealth with $200 million to clone and gene-edit working dogs for American troops, police departments, and emergency services (via TechCrunch).
AI can describe a picture, identify objects, and answer questions about what a camera sees. But when a blind user needs a quick answer, getting an entire spoken essay about the scene isn't exactly helpful. Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have found that AI-powered visual assistance can leave blind users doing too much work to get the information they actually need.
The study, titled Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users, examined how people interact with Be My AI, an AI-powered feature of the Be My Eyes app. The researchers found that users often received lengthy descriptions that didn't adequately address their immediate goals, forcing them to ask follow-up questions or find ways to steer the AI towards a more useful answer.