Overview
- OpenAI began rolling out the new Scheduled Tasks experience on Wednesday and will remove the existing Pulse feature within 14 days, moving management to a dedicated Scheduled page in the sidebar.
- The tool lets paid users set one-off or recurring prompts, reminders, and change-detection monitors and offers flexible timing such as exact times or morning, afternoon, or evening windows.
- OpenAI has built operational controls into the system so tasks run no more than once per hour and unattended tasks may automatically pause to reduce notification overload and system load.
- Coverage reports that the rollout is limited to paid plans and that OpenAI has restructured active-task caps by subscription tier, with sources citing figures like five to 15 tasks or an initial ten-task limit at launch.
- The scheduled system reportedly runs on a beta variant of GPT-4o and marks a deliberate shift to make ChatGPT proactive about routine work, which could change how users automate summaries, reminders, and monitoring.