OpenAI’s newest ChatGPT update brings more proactive agentic activities to the app, but one that automates a previous offering and widens its audience. ChatGPT Pulse surfaces personalized searches and updates to users, along with information from connected apps, such as their calendar. Pulse, currently on preview and available to Pro users, will be available on mobile. “This is the first step toward a more useful ChatGPT that proactively brings you what you need, helping you make more progress so you can get back to your life. We’ll learn and improve from early use before rolling it out to Plus, with the goal of making it available to everyone,” OpenAI said. While Pulse is currently targeting individual users, the feature could eventually lead to more intelligent agents from OpenAI. Enterprises are in the process of determining the best use cases for agents, and one of these is understanding how to leverage an agent that proactively performs tasks on behalf of users. Pulse generally conducts most of its work at night, performing asynchronous research on behalf of the user. “Each night, it synthesizes information from your memory, chat history and direct feedback to learn what’s most relevant to you, then delivers personalized focused updates the next day,” OpenAI said. Users can choose to connect apps like Gmail and Google Calendar, but OpenAI said the integrations “are off by default.” This allows ChatGPT to provide people with a rundown of their meetings the next day, draft a sample meeting agenda, or remind someone to buy a gift for a birthday. The company emphasized that users have control over what information Pulse gives them. A Pro user can tap curate on ChatGPT to guide Pulse on what they want to see and when. The idea is that Pulse can learn from this guidance to better anticipate users’ needs in the future. OpenAI added that “topics shown in Pulse also pass through safety checks to avoid showing harmful content that violates our policies.” Unless saved as a chat, each Pulse is only available for that day only. This shift – from a chat interface to a proactive, steerable AI assistant working alongside you –is how AI will unlock more opportunities for more people.