ChatGPT gets proactive with Pulse

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. ChatGPT just learned a brand new trick — working the night shift when you sleep to craft personalized briefings ready when your alarm goes off.

With the brand new Pulse feature creating custom cards based on every part out of your Gmail to your chat history, OpenAI’s latest proactive push is able to be a brand new a part of users morning routines.

In today’s AI rundown:

• ChatGPT gets proactive with recent Pulse briefs

• Elon Musk, xAI sue OpenAI over trade secrets

• Get quick business insights from spreadsheets

• OpenAI tests AI against human staff across 44 jobs

• 4 recent AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🗞️ ChatGPT gets proactive with recent Pulse briefs

The Rundown: OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Pulse, a brand new preview feature that proactively generates personalized morning briefings while users sleep, initially available exclusively for Pro ($200/mo) subscribers.

The small print:

• The feature robotically creates 5-10 cards overnight based on chat history, user feedback, or connected Gmail and Google Calendar data.

• Users can shape future briefings through direct requests or thumbs-based feedback, with updates refreshing day by day unless specifically saved.

• OpenAI said it deliberately designed Pulse to stop after several reports, displaying “that is it for today” to avoid engagement-driven scrolling patterns.

• Pulse will eventually also roll out to Plus subscribers, becoming the primary of several “compute-intensive” recent features set to be trialed with the Pro tier.

Why it matters: OpenAI’s personalization movement has been within the works for some time, but this appears like a brand new step forward — with pulse rolling lots of the platform’s top traits like productivity, news, connectors, and life insights unique to every user right into a curated morning roundup built for the proactive, agentic era of AI assistants.

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ELON MUSK

🏛️ Elon Musk, xAI sue OpenAI over trade secrets

The Rundown: xAI just filed a brand new lawsuit accusing OpenAI of systematically poaching employees to steal trade secrets, the newest legal move in the continued contentious battle between Elon Musk and his former company.

The small print:

• xAI named 8 former employees allegedly recruited via a coordinated effort, including several who admitted copying source code to private devices.

• Two engineers allegedly downloaded xAI’s codebase while communicating with the identical OpenAI recruiter through encrypted messaging app Signal.

• Court filings also show a senior finance executive, who knew xAI’s data center operations were its “secret sauce,” refuse to comply with legal warnings.

• OpenAI dismissed it because the “latest chapter in Musk’s ongoing harassment,” with previous actions against OAI’s restructure, mission, and antitrust allegations.

Why it matters: For those who like drama, Elon vs. OpenAI is the gift that keeps on giving. However the lawsuit also exposes the darker side of the AI talent wars and flurry of movement between labs this summer, where proprietary breakthroughs are actually only a job change away from potentially heading to the competition.

AI TRAINING

📊 Get quick business insights from spreadsheets

The Rundown: Transform your Google Sheets invoice data right into a conversational business intelligence system using CData Connect AI and Claude Desktop, with no more manual calculations or complex formulas needed.

Step-by-step:

1. Go to CData Connect AI, enroll for a free account, and navigate to the dashboard to administer data connections

2. Click “Add Connection,” select Google Sheets, authenticate along with your Google account, and click on “Save & Test” to verify the connection

3. In Claude Desktop, add the CData MCP server using URL https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp and authenticate with CData credentials

4. Query your data with natural language like “Use CData to research the Demo Invoice Data sheet and show me all unpaid invoices with company names and amounts, then calculate total outstanding”

Pro tip: Connect your CRM like HubSpot or Salesforce as an extra data source in CData. This enables you to analyze customer payment patterns alongside sales data, support tickets, and other business metrics in a single Claude conversation.

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AI RESEARCH

💼 OpenAI tests AI against human staff across 44 jobs

The Rundown: OpenAI just introduced GDPval, a brand new benchmark that measures whether AI models can match skilled work quality across 44 occupations — testing top models like GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1, Gemini 2.5, and Grok 4 against industry experts.

The small print:

• GDPval evaluated 1,320 tasks created by professionals averaging 14 years of experience across 9 economic sectors like healthcare and finance.

• Opus 4.1 achieved the very best scores with a 47.6% win rate and excelled at visual presentation tasks, while GPT-5 led in technical accuracy.

• OpenAI also found that performance tripled from GPT-4o to GPT-5 over 15 months, showing rapid improvement in workplace task capabilities.

Why it matters: Despite the headlines of immediate workforce substitute, GDPval shows even the perfect models are only reaching parity with professionals on certain tasks. But when this benchmark is anything like others within the AI world, its not long before more advanced models make a major jump with just just a few months of acceleration.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 📰 ChatGPT Pulse – Proactive, personalized day by day updates from chats, apps, and more

• 🎥 Wan2.5-Preview – Alibaba’s recent SOTA, multimodal image and video model

• ⚙️VibeSDK – Deploy your individual AI-powered vibe coding platform with one click

• 🤖 CWM – Meta’s open-weights LLM for code generation world model research

📰 The whole lot else in AI today

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Spotify announced AI safeguards including a spam filter, impersonation policy, and AI disclosure credits, revealing that over 75M AI spam tracks have already been removed.

Meta launched Vibes, a brand new AI video feed inside the Meta AI app that lets users discover, create, and remix short-form AI videos with visuals, music, and styles.

Microsoft is reportedly developing a Publisher Content Marketplace that might pay news outlets and content creators when their articles are utilized by AI tools like Copilot.

xAI announced a brand new agreement to offer the U.S. government with access to its Grok AI models for just $0.42 cents per organization through 2027.

Meta introduced Code World Model, an open-weights research model that simulates how programs execute before they run using a world model.

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COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Ross D.S. in Kelowna, Canada:

“My use of AI is expanding day by day. Yesterday, I used ChatGPT to advise me on a negotiation. Last week, I used it to develop a fundraising strategy for my startup. I’m also writing a prompt to create a posh marketing strategy that may create not only the marketing strategy itself but a full exit technique to sell the business.”

How do you utilize AI? Tell us here.

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See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown