Boston Children's Hospital is deploying OpenAI's new healthcare product. The executive leading the rollout says an AI casualty is "very likely." He's doing it anyway. The math behind that decision reveals how hospitals are thinking about risk.
San Francisco | January 8, 2026 OpenAI launched a healthcare product that connects to 2.2 million providers. The catch: by
Grok's crisis isn't about AI capabilities. ChatGPT and Gemini generate similar content. The difference: X publishes outputs to a public feed by default. That architectural choice, plus gutted safety teams, created the first mainstream abuse engine.
Nvidia released open AI models the same week reports surfaced that Meta is abandoning open source. Coincidence? The real story: Nvidia's best customers are building their own chips. Open models create dependencies that survive hardware defection.
OpenAI eliminated its vesting cliff entirely. The official line: encouraging risk-taking. The reality: AI companies now pay employees in database rows that may never become money, while burning $115 billion before profitability.
Trump signed an AI executive order he can't legally enforce. The real aim: intimidate states using $42B in broadband funding as leverage. Republican governors are already pushing back, exposing a deep fracture in the conservative coalition.
Sam Altman's "Code Red" memo triggered OpenAI's fastest major release ever. Ten days later, GPT-5.2 arrived with doubled benchmarks and 40% higher API costs. The gains are real. So are questions about what got sacrificed for speed.
Stanford's AI hacker cost $18/hour and beat 9 of 10 human pentesters. The headlines celebrated a breakthrough. The research paper reveals an AI that couldn't click buttons, mistook login failures for success, and required constant human oversight.
OpenAI calls it the "electron gap." Chinese data centers pay 3 cents per kilowatt-hour. American ones pay 7-9 cents. Morgan Stanley projects a 44-gigawatt US shortfall by 2028. The AI race is now about who built the grid.
Three AI rivals donate competing protocols to a new Linux Foundation project. They call it open governance. But Zemlin's Tokyo speech—citing $24.8B bleeding to Chinese alternatives—reveals the real calculus: pour concrete before Shenzhen arrives.
Google's AI Mode doesn't match ads to keywords anymore. It reads its own AI-generated answers and decides what you meant to ask. Two decades of SEO expertise just became obsolete. The advertising industry hasn't noticed yet.
While the AI industry chases reinforcement learning, Essential AI made the opposite bet. Their new 8B model embodies a thesis about where machine intelligence originates. The transformer's co-inventor is calling the shots on research.
The New York Times sued Perplexity for copyright infringement—months after signing an AI licensing deal with Amazon. Perplexity built revenue-sharing programs for publishers. The Times declined to join any of them. Now lawyers are involved.
Meta is cutting its metaverse budget by 30%. Wall Street cheered. But the money isn't disappearing—it's moving to AI glasses and wearables. Is this fiscal discipline or just the same spending habit with a new label?
Meta's stock jumped 5.7% on news of metaverse cuts. Investors celebrated Zuckerberg walking away from his $70 billion bet. But the day before, Meta hired Apple's top designer for Reality Labs. What's actually happening here?
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