{"id":502305,"date":"2026-06-20T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502305\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:45:10","slug":"chatgpt-keeps-creeping-toward-becoming-your-ai-personal-assistant-with-new-scheduled-task-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502305\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/author\/matthias-bastian\/\" class=\"w-6 h-6 relative rounded-full overflow-hidden shrink-0 bg-gray-400 block   exclude-from-pdf\" title=\"View all posts by Matthias Bastian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Matthias Bastian\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/avatar_matthias_bastian.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-24 photo w-6 h-6 left-0 top-0 absolute\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT gets better at scheduled tasks.\u00a0OpenAI added a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Scheduled&#8221; page<\/a> to the sidebar that puts all active tasks in one place. Users can view, pause, edit, or delete tasks from there. Research tasks search the web and connected apps, sending alerts only when something actually changes. OpenAI says all tasks are now faster and more reliable. Users can schedule tasks for specific times or parts of the day: morning, afternoon, or evening.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36832 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chatgpt_scheduled_tasks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"837\" height=\"733\"\/>ChatGPT&#8217;s new &#8220;Scheduled&#8221; section collects all recurring tasks in one place. | Image: OpenAI<\/p>\n<p>The feature is available to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users. The number of active tasks varies by plan. Tasks can run at most once per hour and pause automatically if the user goes inactive. The <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/openais-new-pulse-feature-lets-chatgpt-start-the-conversation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous &#8220;Pulse&#8221; feature<\/a> is being retired and folded into scheduled tasks.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive &#8220;AI Radar&#8221; frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/subscription\/\" class=\"inline-block text-white bg-(--heise-primary) mt-3 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:outline-none focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-sm w-full sm:w-auto  pl-3 pr-3 py-2.5 text-center newsletter-submit-button hover:no-underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ChatGPT gets better at scheduled tasks.\u00a0OpenAI added a new\u00a0&#8220;Scheduled&#8221; page to the sidebar that puts all active tasks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4193,85,46,1748,125],"class_list":["post-502305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-chatgpt","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-openai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}