OpenAI Launches Computer History for macOS
SkimNews Take
By ingesting ambient computer activity rather than just chat history, OpenAI shifts its assistants from session-bound tools to stateful collaborators that inherit your working context automatically, eliminating the re-explanation friction that has defined every prior AI workflow.
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- OpenAI launched Computer History, an opt-in feature that records recent macOS activity and turns it into a local timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can draw on as memory.
- The feature keeps the activity log stored locally on the Mac, and the source indicates it enables ChatGPT Work to recover context from a user's prior computer activity.
Why it matters: By turning a user's Mac activity into on-device memory for ChatGPT and Codex, OpenAI narrows the gap between manual prompting and a continuously-aware assistant, giving Codex coding agents the kind of session context that previously had to be pasted in manually.
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