OpenAI wants you to start your day with ChatGPT Pulse (www.theverge.com)

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Pulse, a Pro-only mobile feature that proactively researches topics it thinks you’ll care about and delivers a compact morning digest as “topical visual cards.” Pulse scans things like your past chat transcripts (if you’ve enabled “reference past history”) and — with explicit consent — connected apps such as calendar, email and contacts to generate tailored updates overnight. Examples shown in demos include Formula One news, daily vocabulary lessons, route and menu suggestions for an evening out (respecting dietary notes from your history), fitness routines, and tactical next steps tied to your schedule. The announcement underscores OpenAI’s push from reactive chatbots toward autonomous AI agents that anticipate and act on user goals — a major focus across the industry. Technically, Pulse reuses the same data permissions and training-data implications as regular ChatGPT: it prompts users to accept access to specific apps, and user feedback only personalizes that user’s future Pulse, not the broader model. OpenAI says safety filters are in place and that the experience is intentionally bounded (no endless scroll), though it’s still evaluating risks like echo chambers or harmful reinforcement. The feature highlights practical productivity gains while raising familiar privacy and alignment trade-offs as agent-style assistants become more proactive.