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AI Business and Development Daily News Rundown: 🏥 Zhipu AI Goes Public, ChatGPT Health Launches, & The First Major AI Suicide Settlement
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🚀 Welcome to AI Unraveled (January 08th, 2026): Your strategic briefing on the business, technology, and policy reshaping artificial intelligence.
History is made in Hong Kong as Zhipu AI becomes the first LLM company to go public. Meanwhile, OpenAI enters the exam room with "ChatGPT Health," Utah allows AI to write prescriptions, and a tragic lawsuit against Character.AI reaches a settlement that could set a massive legal precedent.
Key Topics:
💰 Markets & Finance
- Zhipu AI IPO: Chinese AI giant Zhipu AI (Z.ai) has officially listed on the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX: 02513), marking the world's first IPO of a major Large Language Model company.
- Anthropic’s $350B Valuation: Reports indicate Anthropic is raising $10 billion at a staggering $350 billion valuation, doubling its worth since September.
- JPMorgan Proxy IQ: The bank launches an in-house AI platform to handle proxy shareholder voting across its $7T asset management division.
🏥 Health & Science
- ChatGPT Health: OpenAI launches a dedicated, privacy-focused workspace that ingests medical records and fitness data (from Apple Health, etc.) to give personalized health advice.
- AI Prescriptions: Utah becomes the first state to allow AI (via startup Doctronic) to autonomously approve prescription refills for chronic conditions, with 99% accuracy in trials.
⚖️ Law, Ethics & Safety
- Character.AI Settlement: Google and Character.AI are negotiating settlements with families of teens who died by suicide after interacting with chatbots, marking a potential industry-first admission of liability for AI emotional harm.
- Musk vs. OpenAI: Elon Musk wins a preliminary legal battle, with a judge ruling there is enough evidence to argue OpenAI abandoned its non-profit mission for profit.
- China Halts Nvidia Orders: Beijing orders local tech firms to pause orders of Nvidia's H200 chips to force adoption of domestic alternatives.
💻 Tech & Product
- Gmail AI Inbox: Google is testing a sidebar that summarizes and prioritizes emails, moving away from the traditional inbox list view.
- Coding Degradation: A new IEEE report suggests AI coding assistants are "getting worse," generating code that fails silently rather than crashing openly. Notably, GPT-5 performed worse than GPT-4 in these tests.
- Lenovo Qira: Lenovo launches a cross-device AI assistant that tracks context between PCs and Motorola phones.
Keywords: Zhipu AI IPO, ChatGPT Health, Anthropic Valuation, Character.AI Lawsuit, Nvidia H200, AI Prescriptions, Utah Doctronic, Gmail AI Inbox, Lenovo Qira, AI Coding Failure, Elon Musk OpenAI Lawsuit, JPMorgan Proxy IQ
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