OpenAI has released a new report showing that more than 40 million people worldwide use ChatGPT daily for health information, with over 5% of all messages now covering health topics. The most common uses include symptom checking, interpreting medical jargon, spotting billing errors, and preparing for doctor visits.
Approximately 70% of health-related chats occur outside typical clinic hours, with around 600,000 messages per week coming from rural areas without hospitals. Users also send between 1.6 and 1.9 million weekly questions related to health insurance, including plan comparisons, billing disputes, and claims complaints.
The report also includes policy recommendations calling on the FDA to create clearer guidelines for AI medical devices. These findings confirm that healthcare is already a massive area of AI application, and with wearable device integrations, medical innovations, and OpenAI’s efforts to streamline regulation, ChatGPT’s role in personalized health guidance is only set to grow.
In Brief: Tech World Highlights
- Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announced a partnership to integrate the Gemini Robotics AI model into Atlas humanoid robots.
- OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek revealed he is leaving the company after seven years, during which he contributed to early programming systems and led the AI reasoning team.
- Boris Cherny, creator of the Claude Code tool, published a guide on how he uses this agent-based coding tool, including running up to 15 parallel sessions simultaneously.
- OpenAI Chief Product Officer Fidji Simo outlined the 2026 product roadmap in a new blog, aiming to transform ChatGPT into a proactive “personal super-assistant.”
- Abu Dhabi’s TII released Falcon H1R 7B, a small hybrid reasoning model that outperforms competitors up to seven times its size in math and programming, with double the inference speed.
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