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Ep 810: ChatGPT Tasks: What’s New, How They Work and 5 Secret Shortcuts to Use Today
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back, Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5, and OpenAI expanded ChatGPT's finance tools to Plus users. And more.
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July 01, 2026
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Big day in AI, with Anthropic’s Sonnet 5 being announced and Mythos 5 and Fable 5 rolling back out any minute now.
You voted for today’s AI Working Wednesday show to be an overview of ChatGPT tasks, which was a banger.
Make sure you repost the show on LinkedIn for this SUPER helpful Tasks Cheat Sheet.
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: OpenAI's latest ChatGPT Tasks updates make it easier to automate your work without writing a single line of code. Give today’s show a watch/read/listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: Runway added Gemini Omni Flash, the House passed the KIDS Act, and Amazon is investing $1 billion to speed up AI adoption. And more.Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back, Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5, and OpenAI expanded ChatGPT's finance tools to Plus users. And more. Read on for Byte Sized News.
💪 Leverage AI: ChatGPT Tasks quietly became one of OpenAI's most useful AI features—and most people still aren't using it. Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Miss our last newsletter? We covered: Fable 5 may require ID and credits only, Nano Banana 2 Lite launches, OpenClaw lands on the iPhone and more Check it here!
Ep 810: ChatGPT Tasks: What’s New, How They Work and 5 Secret Shortcuts to Use Today
Here's a little secret: ChatGPT tasks are the Gateway Agent. 🤖
(And you've probably been overlooking the recent update that made them crazy powerful.)
About two weeks ago, OpenAI announced the sunset of its proactive Pulse feature and instead folded those efforts in an upgraded version of their previously released ChatGPT Tasks.
An d while most overlooked the actual new features in Tasks, it's actually the under the hood updates over the past year since Tasks were originally released that make it more powerful than ever.
Join us for AI at Work on Wednesdays as we share what's new and dish 5 secret shortcuts for Tasks you should be using.
Also on the pod today:
• ChatGPT Pulse quietly retired 💀
• Scheduled tasks sidebar returns 🔄
• Schedule Gmail triage with prompts ✉️
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KIDS Act — The House just passed a major kids’ online safety bill with new rules for social media and AI, but critics say it doesn’t go far enough.
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1. Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access returns today 😱
Anthropic announced that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, clearing the way for access to start coming back tomorrow.
The move ends a short but closely watched restriction period, with users immediately asking whether access will return for everyone and what changed behind the scenes.
2. Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 today as its new default workhorse model 💥
Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5 is now available across its consumer, enterprise, coding, and API products, positioning it as a cheaper, more capable agentic model that can plan, use tools, write code, and complete longer tasks with less hand-holding.
The headline claim is simple: Sonnet 5 gets closer to Opus 4.8 performance while costing less, with introductory API pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, 2026.
3. Anthropic Launches Drug Discovery Push for Neglected Diseases 💊
Anthropic is moving deeper into healthcare, announcing an internal drug discovery program in San Francisco aimed at developing AI tools for pharmaceutical companies while also pursuing treatments for neglected diseases.
The company says the effort will help it learn the hard parts of drug development firsthand, giving its Claude Science product tighter feedback from real research work rather than just customer input.
4. Meta reportedly eyes cloud-computing push to monetize AI data centers ☁️
Meta is reportedly preparing to sell excess computing capacity to outside customers, according to Bloomberg, a timely move as Wall Street scrutinizes the company’s huge AI spending.
The plan could turn Meta into a cloud-style provider, letting developers pay to host or run AI models on its infrastructure, similar to parts of AWS, Azure, or newer AI compute firms like CoreWeave.
5. OpenAI brings ChatGPT’s finance tools to U.S. Plus users 💸
OpenAI is widening access to ChatGPT’s personal finance features, making them available to U.S. ChatGPT Plus customers after initially limiting the preview to Pro subscribers.
According to 9to5Mac, users can connect bank and investment accounts through Plaid, view spending, subscriptions, upcoming bills, and portfolio performance, then ask ChatGPT questions based on that financial data.
6. Etched says its first AI chip systems have $1B in orders after TSMC manufacturing milestone 🖥️
Etched said Tuesday that TSMC has successfully manufactured its first AI chip and that the startup has already booked $1 billion in contract orders for full systems built around it.
The company is now testing those “frontier inference clusters” with customers, pitching them as a faster, cheaper, and more power-efficient way to run AI models after users submit prompts.
7. Meituan reveals LongCat-2.0 behind Owl Alpha 🦉
Meituan has just unmasked LongCat-2.0 as the model behind Owl Alpha, the stealth coding system that recently surged on OpenRouter, while listing it on GitHub and Hugging Face under an MIT license even though the full weights are still marked “coming soon.”
The release matters because it pairs a 1-million-token context window, low API pricing, and free cache hits with a coding-first design aimed squarely at enterprise software agents.
Every paying ChatGPT user already has a working AI agent sitting inside their account. Most have never even opened it up.
Wait, seriously?
The agency-in-disguise is actually ChatGPT Tasks, and two weeks ago OpenAI quietly rebuilt it while sunsetting Pulse, its flashier cousin that didn’t have a ton of steam.
The real story got buried in the fine print.
Most leaders hear "Tasks" and think, "Already tried that."
Biiiig mistake.
This is prolly the most underrated feature OpenAI's shipped in ChatGPT recently, and the leaders who catch on look smartest.
So what actually changed? ChatGPT Tasks became the easiest way to run an AI agent, zero code, zero setup, just plain ENGLISH.
That's exactly what we're unpacking on today's Everyday AI: what changed, how to build one that works, and the five shortcuts nobody's using.
Time to break some barriers, because your first task is waiting.
1. ChatGPT Tasks quietly became a free agent 🔓
About two weeks ago, OpenAI announced it was sunsetting Pulse, the proactive and personalized digest, and rerouted that attention into ChatGPT Tasks instead.
Tasks now has a real scheduled page, more flexible timing, and smarter notifications that only ping you when something's actually worth knowing.
That's a quiet but big deal, because Tasks has quietly become one of ChatGPT's most powerful features, badly named and buried three clicks deep.
For nontechnical leaders, that's the on-ramp: if Codex feels like a developer's toy, Tasks needs ZERO code.
Access scales with your plan: Go gets three tasks, the $20 Plus tier gets five, Team gets 10, and Pro or Enterprise tops out at 15.
Try This
Open chatgpt.com/scheduled today and check your real task limit, then hand it to anyone on the team who still finds Codex intimidating to try first.
Nine times out of 10, that ends up being the easier on-ramp for a nervous team.
Set one task before Friday, even something small like a daily inbox scan, and future you will thank you Monday morning.
2. Most people are using ChatGPT Tasks wrong ⚡
Here's the gnarly part.
That clean scheduled-task page everyone finds first is actually a trap: no model picker, so zero control over which brain handles your request.
Skip it.
Build the task inside a normal chat instead, and pick extra high thinking for anything running while you're not around to babysit it.
The real unlock is stacking what's connected, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, HubSpot, all pulled in once Tasks knows what to check.
Keep it in one thread, and a daily project update remembers yesterday's version instead of starting cold every morning.
Get this wrong and Tasks becomes a fancier reminder app. Get it right, and it's your unpaid analyst.
Try This
Build your first task inside a normal chat, never that blank scheduled page hiding in the sidebar, and choose extra high thinking whenever it's running while you're offline, asleep, or just away from your desk.
Hit run now before you trust it on autopilot, then click view conversation so tomorrow's version remembers today's context.
That's the real difference between a gimmick and an assistant you'd trust.
3. Five ChatGPT Tasks shortcuts nobody's using yet 🚀
Five moves separate leaders poking at ChatGPT from the ones actually cashing in.
Flip on developer mode and connect one MCP for software Tasks doesn't officially reach, unlocking dozens of tools most competitors won't touch.
Apps also read AND write now, not just read, so treat that power with judgment, especially anything automatic.
Codex's automation panel picked up that same "scheduled tasks" label, prolly no coincidence: groundwork for one merged app. So by using Tasks, you’re getting reps in for once the SuperApp 'officially’ drops.
Tasks now run inside shared Projects too, a real unlock for any team running one workflow together.
Laziest and biggest win of the five: ask ChatGPT to mine your chat history for 10 recurring Task prompts you didn't even know you needed.
Try This
Turn on developer mode this week and connect one MCP for a tool your team already lives in, then ask ChatGPT to mine your chat history for 10 task ideas you'd actually use.
Copy, paste, schedule, done.
That's a working agent stack before lunch, no engineering ticket required, and Tasks handles the boring parts of your job, every day after that.
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