Today: a lock for your ChatGPT conversations, Gemini in your car, and OpenAI’s latest acquisition.
Your chats, out of sight
If you’ve ever handed someone your phone to show them a ChatGPT answer, you might like this one.
OpenAI is rolling out locked chats. They disappear from your chat history and search results. To open them again, you’ll need a PIN or supported device authentication. Free accounts are included.
It’s useful for keeping a personal conversation out of view. But locking a chat doesn’t change your training settings or add end-to-end encryption. And if you’ve already shared a link to it, that needs separate attention.
Ask your car about your flight
You’re driving to the airport. Your flight details are buried in an email. Google wants you to be able to ask Gemini for the gate and flight status without digging them out yourself.
That’s one example behind Personal Intelligence in Android Auto, which began rolling out on October 20. Opt in, and Gemini can draw on connected Google apps when you ask a question. Cars with Google built-in will follow in the coming months.
You’ll need an eligible personal account and must be 18 or older. Work and school accounts aren’t included, and it isn’t currently available in the EEA, Switzerland, the UK or Nigeria.
OpenAI takes on the work around drug discovery
A promising idea is only part of developing a medicine. Someone still has to coordinate studies, track delays and keep the work moving.
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, which builds software for that process. Its team and technology will join Rosalind, OpenAI’s life-sciences offering.
There’s no new treatment to report here. The news is where OpenAI is putting its resources: helping pharmaceutical teams manage the work that comes after an idea.
One thing to try
Open the three-dot menu on a ChatGPT conversation and look for Lock chat. Don’t see it? The rollout may not have reached your account yet.
Read the PIN instructions before trying it: resetting a forgotten PIN permanently deletes the content protected by the old one.
What’s one thing you used AI for this week that actually helped? Hit reply—I’d like to hear it.
— Scott