OpenAI’s personalization leads, Christina Kaplan and Samir Ahmed map the shift from an “assistant with a notebook” to Pulse—the part of ChatGPT that quietly preps your day while you sleep. We unpack how short- and long-term memory work across sessions and why April’s subtle update changed the experience, show how daytime chats stay aligned with overnight prep, and close on the big questions: privacy, consent, and why this is an assistant/representative—not a digital clone.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:03 Why Memory Mattered
6:00 User Reception
9:45 Under the Hood: Short vs Long Term
12:20 Behavior Shift & Data Strategy
20:26 What is Pulse?
38:35 One Cohesive Assistant
34:35 Pulse in Practice & Near-Term Roadmap
40:43 Should It Surface Trends?
43:43 Assistant ≠ Clone
51:15 Closing Thoughts
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RESOURCES
Christina Kaplan
Samir Ahmed
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