OpenAI is pulling ChatGPT Pulse from service and replacing its functionality with a rebuilt scheduled-tasks system that the company says is faster and more reliable than the product it supplants. The change, announced June 17 via the official ChatGPT account on X and reported by 9to5Mac, reflects a broader consolidation move: rather than maintain a separate proactive-briefing surface, OpenAI is making recurring and conditional tasks the single automation primitive inside ChatGPT.
Pulse launched last year as an opt-in morning-briefing feature, sending users a curated daily summary. Its retirement is scheduled to complete within roughly 14 days of the announcement. OpenAI says Pulse users can recreate equivalent behavior by building a scheduled task that triggers on a daily cadence, pulling from interests, past chats, and connected apps.
The new system introduces a dedicated Scheduled page inside ChatGPT that acts as a single management hub. From that page, users can see every active task, check when each is next set to run, and pause, resume, edit, or delete any entry without navigating to multiple settings menus. The previous implementation had no unified view, which created friction for anyone managing more than a handful of recurring tasks.
Beyond calendar-style reminders, the rebuilt system adds a category OpenAI calls monitoring tasks. These tasks can search the web and poll connected apps for changes, and they only notify users when a condition is met rather than on a fixed schedule. The distinction matters for builders: a monitoring task that watches a competitor’s changelog or a pricing page is meaningfully different from a cron-style reminder, because it is condition-driven rather than time-driven.
Availability is tiered to paid subscribers. Scheduled tasks are live for Go, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers, with the rollout to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise reaching those plans in mid-June 2026. Free-tier users are not included in the current release.
The product direction here mirrors what Zapier and Make have built for years on the workflow-automation side, but wired directly into the same interface where users already conduct research, draft documents, and run code. Whether that convenience translates into meaningful adoption is an open question; ChatGPT’s feature surface has grown faster than user mental models of what it can do, and many users likely did not know Pulse existed before it was discontinued.
For builders relying on Pulse as a lightweight daily-briefing layer inside a team workflow, the 14-day sunset window is short. Migrating means creating a new scheduled task, connecting the same apps Pulse used, and validating that the output format matches whatever downstream tooling consumed the briefing. The monitoring-tasks capability is worth evaluating separately: if your team was using Pulse as a proxy for “watch this and tell me when something changes,” the condition-based model in the new system is a closer fit than a daily scheduled run.
Reported by 9to5Mac on June 17, 2026, citing OpenAI’s announcement from the official ChatGPT account on X.
