OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first
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A feature that quietly watches your screen while you work has arrived on Mac desktops, and it's coming from one of the world's most powerful AI companies.
OpenAI has added a tool called Chronicle to its Codex app. It periodically captures screenshots, ships them to OpenAI's servers for processing, then stores text summaries locally so the AI knows what you've been doing, without you ever having to explain it.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman called it "an experimental feature giving Codex the ability to see and have recent memory over what you see," adding it "feels surprisingly magical to use."
But the magic comes with tradeoffs. Those summaries are stored as unencrypted plain text files. The feature is already blocked in the EU, UK, and Switzerland, a telling sign of its friction with privacy law.
The question isn't whether this kind of ambient AI is useful. It clearly is. The question is whether users, and regulators, will trust it.
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