OpenAI is making ChatGPT act a little more like a personal assistant. According to The Decoder, the company is upgrading ChatGPT's scheduling feature with a new "Scheduled" page in the sidebar that gathers all of a user's active tasks in one place.
From that page, The Decoder reports, users can view, pause, edit, or delete their scheduled tasks. In other words, the things you've asked ChatGPT to do on a recurring basis now live in a single, manageable list rather than being scattered or hard to track.
The feature also extends to research. According to The Decoder, research tasks can search the web and connected apps, and they only send an alert when something actually changes. That's a meaningful design choice: instead of pinging you on every check, ChatGPT stays quiet until there's a real update worth your attention.
The Decoder frames this as part of a broader pattern, noting that the change replaces a previous feature called "Pulse." The outlet characterizes the move as ChatGPT continuing to "creep" toward becoming an AI personal assistant rather than just a chat tool you open on demand.
Why it matters: scheduling and silent, change-only alerts are the building blocks of software that works for you in the background — and putting them under clear user controls is how a chatbot starts to feel less like a novelty and more like an assistant you'd actually rely on.