OpenAI introduces personalized daily summaries with ChatGPT Pulse (www.engadget.com)

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Pulse, a personalized daily summary that proactively delivers updates, suggestions and follow-ups based on asynchronous research the assistant runs in the background. Pulse pulls from your chat history and — if you opt in — connected Gmail and Google Calendar to surface things like follow-ups on frequently discussed topics, quick dinner ideas, or concrete next steps for longer-term goals (e.g., triathlon training). Users can steer Pulse toward or away from specific topics, and the feature is initially available to Pro subscribers as a test before broader rollout. For the AI/ML community, Pulse signals a push toward more agent‑like, always-on assistants that blend retrieval from private data with proactive recommendation generation. Technically this implies background retrieval and summarization pipelines (likely RAG-style access to personal stores), personalization models that weight history and user directives, and UI/controls for topic steering and consent. It also raises practical concerns around privacy, data access permissions, latency and resource use for continuous asynchronous processing, and the need for robust guardrails and explainability when models act preemptively on personal data. Pulse is a concrete step toward adaptive, context-aware assistants — useful for productivity but a prompt for research into secure, transparent personalization.