OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health!

ChatGPT Health? We saw that one coming, but admittedly, not this early in the year. 

Forward thinkers, welcome to issue #141 of the Neural Frontier.

Today, we’re diving into OpenAI’s latest product release, CES 2026 updates, and Google’s new AI inbox. 

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🧑‍⚕️ OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health!

🤖 CES 2026 is in full swing.

📫Google launches a new AI inbox for Gmail!

🎭 AI Reimagines: The Lord of the…

⚡ The Neural Frontier’s weekly spotlight: 3 AI tools making the rounds this week.

🧑‍⚕️ OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health!

OpenAI is formally stepping into health. This week, the company unveiled ChatGPT Health, a dedicated experience inside ChatGPT designed to help people better understand and manage their health — without turning ChatGPT into a doctor. 

🧠 What ChatGPT Health actually is (and isn’t)

ChatGPT Health is not a diagnostic or treatment tool. Instead, it’s meant to help users make sense of information, prepare for appointments, and track patterns over time.

The key shift is context. Health conversations can be grounded in your own data — not just general medical knowledge — making responses more relevant and actionable for everyday decisions.

You can securely connect:

• Medical records (for lab results, visit summaries, and history)

• Wellness and fitness apps like Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, and Function

• Lifestyle tools for nutrition, movement, and routines

ChatGPT Health can then help explain trends, summarize results, and surface questions worth asking your doctor.

🧩 A separate, protected health space

One of OpenAI’s biggest design decisions is isolation. Health lives in its own space within ChatGPT, with separate memories and added protections. Health conversations don’t flow into your regular chats — and your regular chats can’t access Health data.

If you start a health-related conversation outside Health, ChatGPT may suggest switching you over to get these extra protections.

🔐 Privacy and security, turned up

Because health data is uniquely sensitive, ChatGPT Health adds layers on top of ChatGPT’s existing security model.

That includes:

• Purpose-built encryption and data isolation

• Separate memories scoped only to Health

• Explicit user permission for every connected app

• The ability to disconnect apps instantly

OpenAI also partners with b.well to enable access to U.S. medical records, and emphasizes that all apps in Health undergo additional privacy and security review.

ChatGPT Health is launching gradually. Access starts with a small group of users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, outside the EEA, Switzerland, and the U.K. Medical record integrations and some apps are U.S.-only, and Apple Health requires iOS.

Users can join a waitlist as OpenAI refines the experience, with plans to expand access on the web and iOS in the coming weeks.

🤖 CES 2026 is in full swing.

CES 2026 is officially underway in Las Vegas, and if there’s one unifying theme this year, it’s this: AI has moved from buzzword to baseline. Here’s what stood out.

🤖 NVIDIA doubles down on AI for the physical world

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used his keynote to do three things: celebrate dominance, preview the future, and put robots on stage.

The company unveiled its Rubin computing architecture, which begins replacing Blackwell in the second half of 2026. Rubin is designed to handle the explosive compute and storage demands of large-scale AI adoption.

NVIDIA also showcased its Alpamayo open-source AI models, built to power autonomous vehicles — part of a broader strategy to make NVIDIA’s stack the “Android” of robotics and physical AI.

🧠 AMD pushes AI into personal computers

AMD opened CES with its keynote, led by CEO Lisa Su and a lineup of partners spanning research, startups, and frontier AI.

The headline: Ryzen AI 400 Series processors, which AMD positions as a major step toward making AI-native PCs mainstream. Rather than focusing only on data centers, AMD is betting that everyday devices will become key AI endpoints.

🚗 AI goes hands-on: cars, construction, and robots

Several announcements showed AI moving decisively off the screen and into the real world:

• Ford debuted its AI assistant (initially in-app, with in-car rollout targeted for 2027), hosted on Google Cloud and built using off-the-shelf LLMs

• Caterpillar + NVIDIA revealed a pilot “Cat AI Assistant” for automated excavators, paired with NVIDIA Omniverse simulations for construction planning

• Boston Dynamics + Google confirmed a partnership to train and operate Atlas humanoid robots using Google’s AI research stack

🕹️ Razer goes full AI (and a little weird)

Razer is no stranger to CES spectacle, but this year’s focus shifted from absurd hardware to experimental AI concepts.

• Project Motoko aims to replicate smart-glasses functionality — without glasses

• Project AVA puts a persistent AI avatar companion directly on your desk

📱 Retro meets modern: Clicks Communicator steals the spotlight

One of the buzziest devices on the show floor wasn’t AI-first at all.

The Clicks Communicator, a $499 smartphone with a physical keyboard (plus a $79 slide-out keyboard for other devices), channels strong BlackBerry energy — and it works. Early hands-on impressions praise its ergonomics, thoughtful design, and tactile typing experience.

🧩 The delightful oddities

CES wouldn’t be CES without a few curveballs:

• Skylight Calendar 2, a family planning tool that syncs calendars, creates to-dos from photos and messages, and adds AI reminders

• Lego’s first CES appearance, debuting Smart Bricks that interact, play sounds, and ship with Star Wars-themed sets

• Panels ranging from Palmer Luckey on retro aesthetics to a $25,000 bounty for an authentic Theranos device

📫Google launches a new AI inbox for Gmail!

Google is officially pulling Gmail into the Gemini era — reframing email as something that answers questions, prioritizes work, and drafts responses before you even ask.

With inbox volume at an all-time high, Google’s bet is simple: the future of email isn’t better search — it’s AI that understands context and acts on it.

🔎 Ask your inbox anything: AI Overviews

Gmail is introducing AI Overviews, bringing the same “answer-first” experience from Google Search directly into email.

Instead of digging through threads or remembering keywords, you can now ask natural-language questions like “Who sent me the plumber quote last year?” Gemini scans your emails only and returns a concise summary with the exact details you need.

• Thread summaries for long conversations are rolling out to everyone at no cost

• Inbox Q&A (asking your inbox questions) is available to Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers

✍️ Write faster, sound like yourself

Google is also expanding its writing tools — and making more of them free.

• Help Me Write now lets anyone draft or polish emails from a single prompt

• Suggested Replies (an upgrade to Smart Replies) generate one-click responses that match your tone and context

• Proofread adds Grammarly-style checks for clarity, structure, tone, and grammar (Pro & Ultra only)

📌 See what matters most: AI Inbox

Perhaps the biggest conceptual change is AI Inbox — a new view designed to cut through noise and surface priorities.

Instead of a flat list of messages, AI Inbox shows:

• Suggested to-dos (bills due, appointments, actions you need to take)

• Topics to catch up on, grouped by category, like Finances or Purchases

Think of it as a daily briefing for your email life. Importantly, the traditional inbox isn’t going away — this is a toggleable view, rolling out first to trusted testers.

🎭 AI Reimagines: The Lord of the…

If you’re a fan, no introduction needed. And if not? Get with the program 😆. But seriously, we’re in love with the art style of today’s showcase. 

PS: You’ll want to see Gollum re-imagined 😉.

⚡ The Neural Frontier’s weekly spotlight: 3 AI tools making the rounds this week. 

1. 🎨 MiroMiro is a browser extension that instantly inspects and extracts design elements from any website, including CSS, colors, fonts, spacing, SVGs, images, and Lottie animations without opening DevTools.

2. 🧙 Poppy AI is a multiplayer AI whiteboard that analyzes YouTube videos, PDFs, images, and voice notes simultaneously to help content creators, marketers, and teams brainstorm and produce viral content collaboratively while saving hundreds of hours monthly.

3. ✍️ HumanizerTool is a free AI text humanizer that converts AI-generated content from ChatGPT, Claude, and other models into natural, human-like writing with customizable tones, lengths, and multi-language support.

And we’re off with a bang!

Between CES, OpenAI, and Google’s product updates, what a start to the year it’s been. 

If this is any indication of how the rest of the year will go, then we’re in for a pretty eventful (event-filled?) year, to say the least. 

As always, keep an eye on that inbox, while we keep an eye on the AI space. 

We’ll catch you next week on the Neural Frontier!