{"id":17920,"date":"2026-04-20T21:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=584915ced81d530691e9a8dbfcde38c4"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:53:27","slug":"openais-codex-for-mac-now-watches-your-screen-to-build-context-but-sends-the-screenshots-to-its-servers-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17920","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/04\/openai-codex-chronicle-screen-context-mac.png\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>Summary: OpenAI\u2019s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI\u2019s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files to give the AI assistant passive context about user activity. The feature is unavailable in the EU, UK, and Switzerland, requires a $100+\/month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/openai-codex-chronicle-screen-context-mac?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/openai-codex-chronicle-screen-context-mac\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: OpenAI\u2019s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI\u2019s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}