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.
At CES 2026, Samsung's TM Roh promised AI in everything. Twelve days earlier, he told Reuters price hikes were unavoidable. That gap between keynote and confession defines a memory shortage manufacturers have no intention of fixing anytime soon.
TM Roh took the stage at the Wynn Las Vegas on Sunday evening, January 4th, wearing the confident smile Samsung executives practice for these things. The keynote had been in rehearsal for weeks. Double Gemini-powered devices this year, he announced. Take them from 400 million to 800 million. Start with phones, spread to televisions, and yes, eventually your refrigerator would get smarter too. "One seamless, unified AI experience," he called it. The audience clapped on cue.
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AI transcription tools promise to eliminate typing forever. The accuracy has genuinely improved. So why do professionals still reach for their keyboards when it matters? The answer involves hidden trade-offs most vendors won't mention.
A Fortune 500 engineer deleted 47,000 lines of code, replaced them with 212 lines of YAML. AI costs dropped 63%. The routing layer between enterprises and their AI models is quietly becoming the most strategic chokepoint in tech.
Your employees paste customer records and source code into AI tools you've never approved, dozens of times daily. Bans don't stop them—IBM found the habit adds $670,000 to breach costs. The companies winning aren't building higher walls.
Enterprises are spending billions on AI pilots, but MIT's research shows most deliver no return. It's not the technology failing. The gap between impressive demos and working systems comes down to data quality, technical debt, and organizational readiness.
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