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Anthropic has unified its memory feature so that Claude Cowork, its cloud-based task tool, now shares the same memory as Claude's chat interface. This means details from prior conversations carry over into Cowork tasks and vice versa, reducing the need to re-explain context. Sensitive topics like health or beliefs are excluded from memory by default but can be manually enabled in settings.
Anthropic now shares a single memory system between Claude and its Cowork tool, so context from past chats carries over automatically when switching between them. Claude also updates its memory in real time without needing explicit prompts, and users get new controls to view, edit, delete or pause stored memories in Settings.
Apple has launched M6, its first chip built on a 2-nanometer process, inside a refreshed Mac mini, featuring a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU and a Dual 16-core Neural Engine. Alongside it, the new Mac Studio gets M5 Ultra, Apple's first quad-die SoC, offering up to 36 CPU cores, 80 GPU cores and 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth.
Apple has refreshed its Mac Mini and Mac Studio lineups, but industry-wide memory chip shortages combined with surging demand for AI computing hardware are expected to limit availability. Buyers hoping for quick access to these updated compact desktops may face delays or stock shortages in the near term.
A birth-cohort study tracking 502 Singaporean children from age 1 to 8 found that higher screen viewing time, especially at age 1, 1.5 and 6 years, was linked to weaker academic performance at age 9 and poorer working memory at 10.5, even after adjusting for other factors. Cumulative screen exposure across childhood also predicted lower academic performance, though not working memory.
Amazon has increased prices across its device lineup—including Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and Eero products—by as much as 60%, citing rising memory and storage component costs. The Echo Dot, for instance, jumped overnight from $49.99 to $79.99, a spike confirmed by price-tracking tools like CamelCamelCamel. Amazon says it absorbed these cost increases as long as possible before passing them on to customers, though it plans occasional promotions going forward.
Amazon quietly increased prices on its hardware lineup over the weekend, with some products like the Echo Dot jumping from $49.99 to $79.99. The company confirmed the hikes to TechCrunch, attributing them to rising memory and storage component costs it can no longer absorb, while promising occasional promotions in the coming year.
At FMS 2026, Marvell pitched a three-part 'AI memory infrastructure' strategy built around CXL, combining its Structera X memory expansion controllers, the Structera S switch, and the Photonic Fabric optical tier from its Celestial AI acquisition. Only the Bravera SC6 PCIe 6.0 SSD controller, sampling in Q4 2026, is genuinely new; the rest has already been shipping or announced over the past two years, with Marvell VP Khurram Malik highlighting reused DDR4 memory paired with CXL as a top use case.
An engineer spent two weeks pointing an AI coding agent, Claude Opus 5, at the firmware and update tools of everyday USB peripherals—a microphone, a webcam, and a key light. The agent extracted a full command shell from the microphone, found a way to disable the webcam's recording LED while it still captures video, and discovered the key light accepts unauthenticated memory writes from any device on the same WiFi network.
Amazon is currently selling the Asus Prime AMD Radeon RX 9070 OC Edition for $629.99, down 16% from its usual $750 price. The card runs on AMD's RDNA 4 architecture with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, 56 Compute Units, and a factory overclock reaching up to 2,610 MHz boost clock, delivering performance comparable to Nvidia's RTX 4070 Ti Super.