🗞️ChatGPT for Healthcare

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January 8th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

  • OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT for Healthcare, a suite of GPT-5-based tools for doctors that ensures HIPAA compliance via customer-managed encryption, integrates peer-reviewed research with citations, and helps manage administrative burdens amid rising AI adoption

  • President Trump is exploring options to acquire Greenland, including internal discussions of offering each of its roughly 57,000 residents payments between $10,000 and $100,000 to encourage secession from Denmark and join the U.S.

  • Vice President Vance announced today that the Trump administration is establishing a new Senate-confirmed assistant Attorney General position based in the White House to lead nationwide fraud investigations…read more here

  • Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the 86-year-old longest-serving House Democrat and former No. 2 in House Democratic leadership, announced that he will not seek reelection

  • New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy, signed a bipartisan law mandating that all public school districts implement a "bell-to-bell" ban on non-academic use of cellphones and other internet-enabled devices during school hours, effective for the 2026-27 school year

  • President Trump said he will not pardon Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former FTX CEO serving a 25-year sentence for fraud and conspiracy related to the exchange's collapse

  • A federal judge has rejected OpenAI's motion to dismiss Elon Musk's fraud lawsuit, signaling the case that was filed in August 2024 will proceed to a jury trial to assess whether OpenAI deceived Musk by shifting from a nonprofit AI research lab to a for-profit entity

  • The U.S. trade deficit for October 2025 plunged 39% to $29.4 billion, the lowest since June 2009, driven by a 3.2% drop in imports to $331.4 billion and a 2.6% rise in exports to $302 billion

  • DOW up .55% / S&P up .01%

  • Iran has imposed a near-total nationwide internet blackout alongside disruptions to telephone services, as reported by monitoring groups like NetBlocks during escalating protests

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