# AI news, Thursday, 27 August 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's AI news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/ai-news/2026-08-27/

## Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork memory

Agents. Agents pick up months of chat context when handed a Cowork task, without re-briefing. On by default for Free, Pro and Max.

Source: Anthropic, https://claude.com/blog/claudes-memory-works-everywhere-and-you-decide-whats-in-it

## ChatGPT tasks can fire on Gmail, Slack and GitHub events

Agents. Event-driven agents replace polling on eligible plans. WebMCP site tools and cloud browser sign-in arrived the same day.

Source: OpenAI, https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/changelog

## IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC English ASR

Language. Edge-sized open speech-to-text at about 5% OpenASR WER and very high throughput, suited to call-centre and on-device transcription.

Source: IBM, https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5-0-470m-turboctc

## IBM ships Granite 4.2 open reasoning models

Models. Apache-2.0 dense models with tool calling and agentic RL on the larger sizes, usable via vLLM or SGLang without extra glue.

Source: IBM, https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-4-2

## OpenAI publishes first Jalapeño inference chip results

Business. First measured first-party silicon at Hot Chips. Small-volume deploy targeted end-2026. Does not change API builders this week.

Source: OpenAI, https://openai.com/index/jalapeno-first-results/