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On August 15 we looked at Computer History, OpenAI’s new activity recorder for the Mac. The line that mattered most sat right at the end: it was not available in Europe. That changed on August 20, when OpenAI switched the feature on for the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and Codex coding agents have had access to memories, the company’s term for context (background information) derived from previous chat activity, since April 2024. A new Computer History feature builds on that to include (if you opt in) logging your interactions with websites and applications, so it can essentially follow your footsteps…