To get ChatGPT to send you the news every morning, open a chat and ask for a scheduled task that says what to cover, from which sources, and when. Confirm the schedule it proposes, then choose push, email or both under Settings > Notifications. Scheduled tasks come with ChatGPT's paid plans (Go, Plus and Pro), not Free, and run at the exact time you set.
That takes about five minutes, and the steps below make the result much better than a one-line prompt. We make Avos, a dedicated news briefing, so we also have a view on when a scheduled chatbot is enough and when it isn't. The ChatGPT steps follow OpenAI's own help and pricing pages, linked, checked on 6 November 2026.
What do you need before you start?
- A paid ChatGPT plan. OpenAI's pricing page lists scheduled tasks on Go, Plus and Pro, not on Free. Paid plans run tasks at exact times, as often as several times a day.
- A free task slot. Active tasks are capped by plan: 3 on Go, 5 on Plus, 10 on Business and Edu, 15 on Pro and Enterprise. At the cap, pause or delete one first.
- Notifications you'll actually see. Decide whether you want the news as a push notification, an email or both.
You don't need ChatGPT Pulse. OpenAI announced its retirement on 17 June 2026 and folded its proactive updates into scheduled tasks; the release notes suggest a scheduled daily briefing as the replacement.
How do you set up a daily news briefing in ChatGPT?
Step 1: write the prompt as a brief
The quality of every morning depends on this prompt, so write it like instructions to an editor, not a search query. Say what to cover, in what order, over what time window, from which kinds of sources, at what length, and what to do on a slow day. For example:
Every weekday at 7:00, brief me on the last 24 hours. Three parts, in this order: (1) the 5 most important world stories, (2) news on European fintech and payments regulation, (3) where the S&P 500, the euro and Brent crude closed yesterday and why. Prefer established international outlets and official sources; skip opinion pieces and press releases. One or two sentences per story, each with a link to the original article. If a part has nothing new, say "Nothing new" instead of filling it. Under 400 words.
A few things make a real difference:
- A time window. "The last 24 hours" stops it from padding a quiet day with last week's news.
- Named sources. ChatGPT treats them as a preference, but it helps.
- Links for every item. ChatGPT search adds citations and a Sources list, and OpenAI advises opening a cited source to check it supports the answer.
- A slow-day rule. Asking it to say "Nothing new" keeps a quiet morning honest.
Step 2: ask ChatGPT to schedule it
Paste the brief into a new chat with the schedule in the first line ("Every weekday at 7:00..."). ChatGPT proposes a schedule; check the time and the days, then confirm. Scheduling needs a paid plan; on Free you can still paste the same brief into a chat by hand each morning.
A good habit: run the brief once as a normal chat first. When the answer reads the way you like, schedule that exact prompt.
Step 3: choose how you hear about it
Open Settings > Notifications and choose push, email or both for tasks. The task's answer lives in its ChatGPT conversation, which is also where you can ask follow-up questions about any story.
Step 4: read the first few runs and adjust
Give it three or four mornings. If it repeats stories, misses your beat or runs long, edit the prompt. OpenAI's release notes describe a Scheduled page in the sidebar where you can pause, edit or delete tasks.
Step 5 (optional): add a monitoring task for events
For news that matters only when it happens ("tell me if the ECB changes rates", "tell me if a competitor announces a price cut"), create a separate task that watches for it. OpenAI says monitoring tasks can search the web and check your connected apps, and only notify you when there is something worth reporting. On eligible paid plans a task can also start from an event in Gmail, Slack or GitHub instead of a time (what's new in ChatGPT).
What limits will you hit?
A scheduled task is a good daily summary. As a full news system, these are the walls people run into:
- No schedule on Free. OpenAI's pricing page lists scheduled tasks on the paid plans only, so a free account has to ask by hand each morning.
- A cap on tasks. One briefing and two monitoring tasks already fill a Go account.
- Runs use your plan. OpenAI's help center notes that a completed task can count toward your plan's usage even when it has no update.
- The sources change every morning. Each run reads whatever its search finds. Your named sources are a preference, not a list it is limited to.
- It's a chat answer. You get text, shaped however the model writes it that morning, not a layout with sections that stay in the same place.
- Repeats are hard to control. There's no record you can see of which stories it already sent you, so a big story can come back day after day.
- Citations need checking. OpenAI's own help page says search results and citations "can be incomplete, outdated, or incorrect".
- It's for you alone. There's no subscriber list or public edition if you want to share your briefing.
None of this makes the task useless. It means the task is a prompt on a timer, and the prompt has to carry everything.
When is a dedicated briefing the better tool?
If your ChatGPT task does the job, keep it. A dedicated briefing earns its place when the news is something you rely on, not a nice extra. With Avos:
- You set the sources once. Your briefing is built from sections, and each section reads the feeds you chose (news searches, curated topics with wide international coverage, RSS feeds, X accounts, YouTube channels, podcasts, research papers) and nothing else.
- It reads more than the web. Avos's data engine adds market data from Alpha Vantage (stocks, ETFs, commodities, forex, US economic indicators and company news), crypto prices from CoinGecko, the market's odds of a Fed rate move, global news coverage from NewsAPI.ai and startup funding rounds. The free trackers run on the same engine.
- The rules are written down. You describe the briefing to an AI editor, and every setting it writes (sources, filters, tone, format, language) stays visible and editable.
- It can use the same model. On paid plans each AI section can write with OpenAI's GPT models, the family behind ChatGPT, or with Claude, Gemini, Grok and others.
- It arrives at your time. Daily, on chosen weekdays or monthly, at the time and timezone you set, the whole issue by email and on the web.
- It doesn't repeat itself. Each section skips stories it sent you in recent issues, and a section with nothing new says so.
- It looks like a newsletter. A themed layout with sections, images and market tables. See The Daily Brief, Markets & Investing or Tech, AI & Business.
- Alerts, audio and readers are built in. News alerts on a condition you write, price alerts on assets and US economic indicators, Anchor Mode to listen to your issue on paid plans, and sharing with an audience or a public page.
Avos has a free plan; the paid plans are on the pricing page. Many readers keep both: the briefing for the coverage, ChatGPT for the follow-up. We compare the two in detail in Avos vs ChatGPT, and every major assistant in the best AI assistant for daily news.
FAQ
Can ChatGPT send me a news summary every morning?
Yes, on a paid plan. Ask for a scheduled task in a chat, confirm the schedule, and choose push, email or both under Settings > Notifications. OpenAI's pricing page lists scheduled tasks on Go, Plus and Pro, not on Free; paid plans run them at exact times, as often as several times a day (checked on 6 November 2026).
Is ChatGPT Pulse still available?
No. OpenAI announced Pulse's retirement on 17 June 2026 and folded proactive updates into scheduled tasks. Its release notes suggest asking ChatGPT for a scheduled daily briefing based on your interests, past chats and connected apps instead.
What is the best prompt for a ChatGPT news briefing?
Write it as a brief: the time window ("the last 24 hours"), the sections in order, the sources to prefer and avoid, the length, a link for every story, and what to do when a section has nothing new. The more of your standing preferences the prompt carries, the more consistent each morning is.
How many scheduled tasks can I have in ChatGPT?
It depends on the plan: 3 active tasks on Go, 5 on Plus, 10 on Business and Edu, and 15 on Pro and Enterprise, according to OpenAI's help page (checked on 6 November 2026). OpenAI's pricing page doesn't list scheduled tasks on the Free plan. Pause or delete a task to make room for another.