Since this feature was launched, I simply haven’t been able to get a daily news summary. I tried in many different ways, using ChatGPT on the desktop browser, on the Android app… I tried on different dates, with different settings and prompts.
Now I noticed that the feature apparently stopped being grouped with the selectable models, and it seems to support o4-mini. I tried again. And guess what: the problem persists.
It delivers news from its training data, not from web search results. It shows me generic news or events from 2023.
Is it a language issue? Or does scheduled tasks simply not use web search? 
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That is something I’d like to know too.
It was all hyped, but I only get outdated or unreliable poor results.
If it REALLY used o4-mini with browse as in the normal chat, then it would be nice.
But for now, it is useless for me.
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Yeah, having the same issue. Really annoying, because, in my opinion, the value of recurring tasks is that they can gather current information on a topic. It seems like it’s not intended behavior from OpenAI, cause I think the model tries to search and then it errors?
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Just ran into this. According to the model (GPT5) automated tasks cannot access the internet. This is to prevent running up crazy bills on automated tasks, according to it. If this is true, then automated tasks seem basically worthless to me. Why would I need something automated and recurring if it’s never acting on new data?