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Anthropic's own headline is "Cowork and chat are now one Claude" — not a shutdown, just no more manual tab switching.
Marcus Ide
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September 18, 2026
Anthropic announced on September 16, 2026, that Claude Cowork and Claude's regular chat interface are officially merging into one — users no longer need to decide, before starting a task, whether it belongs in Chat or in Cowork. Claude now judges on its own whether a request needs a quick answer or multi-step work spanning files and tools. In the same announcement, Anthropic launched two new...