Guide
How to get ChatGPT to send you a daily news brief on your company and competitors
The short answer
Ask ChatGPT in a chat to schedule a daily briefing, as OpenAI suggests [4], and tell it to search the web every weekday at a set time. That makes a scheduled task, which you manage on the Scheduled page, and each run lands in the task's conversation with an optional push or email notification [1]. The help article lists scheduled tasks on every plan, but Free runs only in a loose morning, afternoon, or night window, and OpenAI's pricing table says Free has no scheduled tasks at all [1][2].
| Personal scheduled task | Team task | |
|---|---|---|
| Plans | Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu, per the help article [1] | Business and Enterprise only [3] |
| Who manages it | You. A shared link gives a colleague a separate copy of their own [1] | Several teammates share it [3] |
| Runs as | Your own account | The team's service account, in the cloud [3] |
| Where results go | The task's ChatGPT conversation, with an optional push or email notification [1] | ChatGPT, or an approved Slack channel in OpenAI's examples [3] |
| Run now button | None documented | Yes [3] |
If you used ChatGPT Pulse for a morning catch-up, you’ve noticed it’s gone. OpenAI announced its shutdown on June 17, 2026, and its note tells people who want daily updates to “ask ChatGPT to schedule a daily briefing based on your interests and past chats” [4]. That briefing is a scheduled task, and with a careful prompt it’ll search for news on your company and competitors every weekday before you’re at your desk.
Older guides may also send you to agent mode, which OpenAI has retired in favor of ChatGPT Work [5]. The agent page
still names chatgpt.com/schedules, but the current help article points you to the Scheduled page instead [1][5].
Which plan you need
The help article lists scheduled tasks on Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu [1]. What changes from plan to plan is how many tasks you can keep active and whether the brief comes at a set time. Prices are as of Oct. 21, 2026.
| Plan | Price | Active tasks |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 a month [2] | 3 [1] |
| Go | $8 a month, billed monthly [2] | 3 [1] |
| Plus | $20 a month, billed monthly only [6] | 5 [1] |
| Pro | $100, $200, or $500 a month, billed monthly only [7] | 15 [1] |
| Business | $25 per user per month billed monthly, or $20 billed annually, for a Standard seat ($125 or $100 for a Premium seat), with at least two seats [8] | 10 [1] |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing through sales [2] | 15 [1] |
| Edu | For universities, through OpenAI’s sales team, with no price listed [2] | 10 [1] |
Free is where it gets confusing. The help article says Free tasks run no more than once a day, in a window such as morning, afternoon, or night, and that “exact delivery times require an eligible paid plan,” without saying which paid plans count [1]. The pricing table on chatgpt.com goes further and marks Scheduled tasks “No” for Free and “Yes” for Go, Plus, and Pro [2]. Since the two pages disagree, open ChatGPT and look for Scheduled in the sidebar before you plan around Free.
Set up the task
Turn on notifications first. Under Settings > Notifications you can choose Push, Email, or both, and for alerts on your phone, create the task in the ChatGPT mobile app and allow notifications when it asks [1]. OpenAI doesn’t say which address the email goes to or whether it holds the brief itself, so plan on reading the brief in ChatGPT.
- Try the prompt below once in an ordinary chat, without its first line, and open every link and check every date. OpenAI documents a Run now button for team tasks [3] but none we could find for personal tasks, so a test in chat is the quickest check.
- Start a new chat on the web or in the mobile app. If the desktop app doesn’t show Scheduled, use the web [1].
- Paste the full prompt, first line included. ChatGPT creates the task when you ask for it in the chat, or you can start from the Scheduled page instead [1].
- Open Scheduled in the sidebar and check the task’s time and repeat [1][4]. On Free, expect a window rather than an exact time [1].
- Read the first few runs. To edit, pause, or delete the task, select its title in the conversation and use the task panel [1].
- Keep that conversation, because deleting the chat pauses the task [1].
The prompt
Fill in the brackets. The first line sets the schedule.
Every weekday at 7 a.m. [your time zone], search the web and write my daily news brief.
About us: I work at [Your company] ([yourcompany.com]). We [one line on what the company does].
Competitors: [Competitor 1], [Competitor 2], [Competitor 3].
Industry: [Your industry], especially [two or three topics, such as regulation, pricing, funding, or big customer wins].
Cover news published in the 24 hours before this run. On Mondays, cover everything since Friday at 7 a.m. Run a separate search for [Your company], for each competitor by name, and for the industry.
Write three sections:
1. [Your company]: news about us.
2. Competitors: one short sub-section per competitor.
3. Industry: up to five items that matter to a company like ours.
Rules for every item:
- Include it only if it was first published inside that window. Check the date on the article page. If you cannot confirm the date, leave it out.
- Give the headline, the outlet that published it, the publication date (YYYY-MM-DD), and one link to the article itself. Never a search page, tag page, or home page. Copy the address without tracking parameters.
- Add one sentence on why it matters to [Your company].
- Prefer reporting from news outlets and trade publications. Include a press release only if [Your company] or a competitor issued it, and label it as a press release.
- If a section has nothing new, write "Nothing new." Do not fill it with older news.
End with a line that starts "Searches run:" and lists the searches you ran. Keep the brief under 400 words.We tested an earlier version of this prompt, then added the separate searches, the single plain link, the press-release rule and the “Searches run” line to target what it got wrong. The Monday line is there because a 24-hour window on a Monday morning only reaches back into Sunday. We haven’t rerun it with these changes. The “Searches run” list is the model’s own account rather than a log, but it can make a gap easier to spot.
What came back when we tested it
We ran the earlier prompt once through OpenAI’s API, with the gpt-6-sol model and its web search tool, at 5:14 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. That tests the prompt, not the Tasks feature: we didn’t create a task, and ChatGPT may pick a different model and search differently. We filled it in for Stripe, with Adyen and Checkout.com as competitors and online payments as the industry.
The Stripe, Adyen, and Checkout.com sections all came back “Nothing new in the last 24 hours.” The industry section had two items, both dated Oct. 5: a Mastercard reseller deal with Rezolve Ai, on GlobeNewswire, and NEOPAY’s agreement to buy 65% of noon payments, from the Emirates News Agency. Both links loaded, both dates matched the pages, and both fell inside the window. It invented no links and slipped in no old stories.
So it was accurate but thin, and the Stripe section was wrong. The companies’ own newsrooms did have nothing new (the latest items were dated Sept. 30 at Stripe, Sept. 23 at Adyen, and Sept. 29 at Checkout.com), but a Claude run we made the same morning found a PYMNTS story on Stripe and Constructor, published at 11:50 a.m. Eastern on Oct. 5, inside this window.
Two smaller things went wrong too. The Rezolve Ai item was a company press release, and the brief credited it to
“Rezolve Ai announcement” rather than to GlobeNewswire. And every item carried a second citation ending in
?utm_source=openai, which the one-plain-link rule in the revised prompt is meant to fix.
What the task leaves to you
The brief stays in ChatGPT, and no OpenAI page we read says a task can send it to other people unattended. A task can use Gmail, but “an action that sends a message or changes external data may require approval,” and the task pauses until you review it [1]. OpenAI’s permission settings list sending an email among the actions that may need that review [9].
Sharing doesn’t get it to your team either. A personal task belongs to one account, and a shared link gives a colleague a separate copy with none of your results [1]. The documented route to one brief a whole team shares is team tasks on Business or Enterprise, which run under a team service account and, in OpenAI’s examples, can post to an approved Slack channel [3].
Don’t count on it to remember yesterday. OpenAI documents earlier-run memory only for monitoring tasks [1], and its team-task guide says, “Don’t assume that ChatGPT will use every earlier run as context” [3], so the date window in the prompt is what keeps repeats out. The prompt also searches only the names you gave it, so a competitor that turned up last month or a regulator you didn’t list gets in only if the industry search happens to catch it. And a task can stop on its own when it’s inactive, needs action from you, or its chat is deleted [1].
If what you wanted was a brief the whole company gets without anyone minding a chat, that’s the job Newsprint does. It builds its coverage plan from your company’s website rather than a list you typed, an AI editor picks the stories each weekday morning, and the email links every one to the original article. It’s $300 a month for as many readers as you like. The first brief is free and needs no credit card. Enter your work email on newsprint.com to start.
What Newsprint does not do
It costs more than ChatGPT Plus
Plus is $20 a month [2]. Newsprint is $300 a month for the whole company, so if you're the only reader and you like tuning a prompt, ChatGPT is the cheaper way to get this.
One brief a day, not hourly checks
On an eligible paid plan, a ChatGPT task can run as often as once an hour [1]. Newsprint sends one brief each weekday morning, and you can reply to ask for one now, but it won't alert you as stories break. Alerts through the day are part of Teams, which is scoped and priced in a conversation.
Nothing to type a question into
Newsprint is an email, not a chat. You can't run your own searches in it or pull a coverage report. You reply to change what it covers, or to ask for a brief on a topic.
Its picks come from AI too
Newsprint uses AI to pick and summarize the news, so it can get a story wrong. You can reply to report a mistake, but an email that's already gone out can't be recalled.
Paywalls still apply
Each story links to the article it came from, and some of those outlets want a subscription before you can read past the summary.
Questions people ask
Can ChatGPT email me my daily news brief?
Only as a notification. Turn on Email in Settings > Notifications and ChatGPT emails you when the task runs [1], but OpenAI doesn't say which address it uses or whether the brief is in it. A task can use Gmail, though a send may need your approval, and the task pauses until you give it [1].
Does the Free plan include scheduled tasks?
OpenAI's own pages disagree. The help article lists Free, with three active tasks that run at most once a day in a loose window [1], while the pricing table on chatgpt.com marks Scheduled tasks "No" for Free [2]. Check your own account before you count on it.
What happened to ChatGPT Pulse?
OpenAI announced its sunset on June 17, 2026, as "proactive updates move into scheduled tasks," and its note tells users to "ask ChatGPT to schedule a daily briefing" instead [4].
Can my whole team read the same brief?
Not by sharing a personal task. The link gives a colleague a separate copy on their own account, without your results [1]. Business and Enterprise have team tasks that several teammates can share, and OpenAI's examples include posting an update to an approved Slack channel [3].
Why did ChatGPT say "nothing new" when there was news?
Because that's the model's answer, not proof. Our 5:14 a.m. run on a Tuesday reported nothing new on Stripe, and a separate test that morning found a Stripe story published inside the same window.
How many briefs can I run?
One per active task, up to your plan's limit: three on Free and Go, five on Plus, 10 on Business and Edu, and 15 on Pro and Enterprise [1].
Sources
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