Arm reorganized around "Physical AI" at CES 2026, combining automotive and robotics under one executive. The stock moved 0.3 percent. The market sees what the press releases won't say: this is a rebrand, not a transformation.
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
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.
When Apple needed someone to introduce the iPhone Air to the world last September, they chose Abidur Chowdhury. The London-born industrial designer stood in front of the camera, rotating the device slowly under harsh studio lighting to catch the machined bevel, and walked viewers through the thinnest iPhone ever made. His hands were steady. His explanation of how the engineering team shaved millimeters from the chassis was rehearsed but natural. It was a two-minute video, but at Apple, appearing in launch footage is a signal. The company was grooming him.
Two months later, Chowdhury left. Bloomberg reported his departure "made waves internally," though the company line insisted it was unrelated to the iPhone Air launch. Where he went remained a mystery until Monday, when Brett Adcock announced that Chowdhury had joined Hark as head of design.
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Arm reorganized around "Physical AI" at CES 2026, combining automotive and robotics under one executive. The stock moved 0.3 percent. The market sees what the press releases won't say: this is a rebrand, not a transformation.
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.
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.
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.
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