OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health asks users to upload medical records and sync fitness apps. One problem: HIPAA doesn't apply to "consumer products." The company found the gap in healthcare privacy law and built a business model around it.
San Francisco | January 7, 2026 Larry Page spent late December filing paperwork. Family office, flu research vehicle, aircraft startups, all
Larry Page quietly moved his family office out of California before the wealth tax hits. Jensen Huang says he hasn't even thought about it. Two billionaires, one state, opposite responses and a revealing question about what citizenship means at the top.
CES 2026 put AI in everything from toilets to Lego bricks. But the real story was who showed up to build the robots—and who didn't. Chinese manufacturers ran the floor while Silicon Valley stayed home, bored by hardware.
Every booth at CES 2026 trumpets artificial intelligence. The pool cleaner. The toilet. The bird feeder. Lego brought a brick with a microphone in it. One analyst wandered the floor all day and came back tired. "Everything is AI now, so nothing is AI," he said, which about sums it up.
AI went from selling point to checkbox sometime in the last eighteen months. Wi-Fi made the same trip a decade back. Touchscreens before that. Features that show up everywhere stop mattering. What matters is whether they do anything.
CES offered mixed evidence on that question.
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OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health asks users to upload medical records and sync fitness apps. One problem: HIPAA doesn't apply to "consumer products." The company found the gap in healthcare privacy law and built a business model around it.
Brett Adcock's new AI lab Hark just poached Apple's iPhone Air designer. Why does an AI company need an industrial designer as its first major hire? The answer may lie in Adcock's $39 billion robotics company—and his family's quiet expansion across physical AI.
Google sold Boston Dynamics in 2017 because robots that impressed YouTube couldn't find paying customers. Now they're partners again. But the gap between Hyundai's 30,000-robot ambitions and last year's 500-unit reality tells a more complicated story.
Every major AI CEO publicly endorsed Nvidia's new Rubin platform at CES. When your competitors line up to praise your product launch, you've stopped selling chips. You're selling infrastructure nobody can afford to skip.
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