Claim◆Article · 26 words
If you want to build the AR glasses product everyone thinks is the next big thing, you are going to have to invade people's privacy.
Nilay Patel · Simon Willison's Weblog
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OpenAI chose not to heavily leverage its trove of user chat history and memory in the new app unless a user explicitly asks it to draw on that memory.
Despite having years of user chat logs that could inform agentic actions, OpenAI decided, after internal debate, not to rely heavily on that memory unless the user proactively invokes it. ✦ AI generated
Andrew Ambrosino · Big Technology · 2026-07-10 · original ↗
But, after some internal debate, OpenAI won’t rely heavily on what it knows about you for this new experience. However, if you proactively ask it to rely on what it knows about you, Ambrosino said, it will then tap into its memory.
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