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In today's Techpresso:
🏥 OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health
💳 Chase is taking over Apple’s credit card
📧 Google is adding an "AI Inbox" to Gmail
⚖️ Google and Character.AI settle teen suicide lawsuits
⚖️ Elon Musk wins early battle in lawsuit against OpenAI
🇨🇳 China tells tech firms to halt Nvidia H200 chip orders
🎁 + 16 other news you might like
🧰 + 6 trending tools
🏥 OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health LINK
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, a new dedicated space where users can have separate conversations with the AI about their health and wellness questions without mixing them into regular chats.
The feature can connect with apps like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal to pull in personal medical records and wellness data, and OpenAI says it won't use Health conversations to train models.
OpenAI's own terms of service say the AI is "not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of any health condition," and large language models remain prone to hallucinations and lack understanding of truth.
💳 Chase is taking over Apple’s credit card LINK
JPMorgan Chase will become the new issuer of the Apple Card, taking over from Goldman Sachs in a transition that Apple says will likely take up to 24 months to complete.
The deal brings over $20 billion in card balances to Chase, with Goldman Sachs selling at a $1 billion discount and expecting a $2.2 billion provision for credit losses.
Nothing changes for current Apple Card users right now, and the card will continue to use the Mastercard network for payments while keeping its existing cashback rewards structure.
📧 Google is adding an "AI Inbox" to Gmail LINK
Google is testing a new "AI Inbox" feature for Gmail that uses Gemini to surface important information and tasks from your emails, rather than showing you the emails themselves.
The AI Inbox will appear in a sidebar above your regular inbox, pulling out things you need to know or do, while the traditional email view remains available for users who want it.
Google says this could be the first step toward changing how people interact with email entirely, turning it into more of a task list managed by AI rather than a pile of messages.
⚖️ Google and Character.AI settle teen suicide lawsuits LINK
Google and Character.AI are negotiating settlements with families whose teenagers died by suicide or harmed themselves after using Character.AI's chatbot companions, marking what may be the tech industry's first major legal settlement over AI-related harm.
One case involves a 14-year-old who had sexualized conversations with a "Daenerys Targaryen" bot before killing himself, and another describes a 17-year-old whose chatbot encouraged self-harm and suggested murdering his parents.
Character.AI was founded in 2021 by ex-Google engineers who returned to Google in 2024 through a $2.7 billion deal, and the company banned minors last October after these incidents came to light.
⚖️ Elon Musk wins early battle in lawsuit against OpenAI LINK
Elon Musk scored an early win in his lawsuit against OpenAI after a US judge ruled there is enough evidence for a jury to consider claims that the AI company abandoned its original nonprofit mission.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and contributed about $38 million in early funding, accuses CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman of secretly planning to turn the nonprofit into a profit-driven enterprise.
OpenAI called the lawsuit "baseless" and part of a "pattern of harassment," describing Musk as a frustrated competitor trying to slow down a rival after launching his own AI startup xAI.
🇨🇳 China tells tech firms to halt Nvidia H200 chip orders LINK
China has instructed some local tech companies to stop placing new orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, according to a report from The Information published this week.
The request is part of a broader plan that could soon force Chinese companies to buy domestic AI chips instead of American ones, as Beijing reviews whether to allow Nvidia's high-performance chips.
Companies like Alibaba and ByteDance have shown interest in the H200, which performs far better than the downgraded H20 chips currently sold in China, but those orders remain frozen.
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🧰 Trending tools
ChatGPT Health: a personalized health assistant that integrates your medical records and wellness data to provide contextual health guidance and care navigation.LINK
Capacity: an AI app builder that helps you define specifications through guided questions before generating code, reducing messy refactoring and inconsistent results.LINK
xPay: a payment gateway optimized for Indian businesses to handle cross-border transactions with reduced friction and better success rates than global alternatives.LINK
Muze AI: autonomous ad management platform that automatically creates, tests, and optimizes campaign creatives and budgets using performance data without manual intervention.LINK
Adventory: a marketplace connecting indie app developers who want to buy ad spots with those who have inventory to sell, streamlining direct advertising deals.LINK
bikemap: browser-based visualization of 291 million Citi Bike rides using DuckDB WASM, deck.gl, and parquet files on Cloudflare CDN.LINK
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