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Impact Signals #64: OpenAI Brings Frontier Health AI to 230 Million Free Users, Cuts Factuality Errors 71% Today: OpenAI Brings Frontier Health AI to 230 Million Free Users, Cuts Factuality Errors 71%; Belize Study: Every Dollar in Early Warning Returns Up to BZD 6.80 in Avoided Losses; Anthropic Claude Corps: 1,000 Paid AI Fellows at Nonprofits; First Cohort Closes July 17. --- Top Stories **1. OpenAI Brings Frontier Health AI to 230 Million Free Users, Cuts Factuality Errors 71%** OpenAI announced June 19 that it has rolled GPT-5.5 Instant out to all free ChatGPT users worldwide, delivering what the company calls "frontier-level health intelligence" at no cost. Over the prior two months the upgrade produced a 71% decline in health-response factuality errors, with specific improvements in recognizing when urgent care is needed, asking for clarifying context before answering, and making medically complex topics accessible to general users. The 230-million-plus weekly ChatGPT users include a large share in low- and middle-income countries where this may be the most consistent health-information source available. OpenAI said the model is explicitly optimized to surface uncertainty and to direct users toward professional care when symptoms suggest it. **Why it matters:** This is one of the largest-scale deployments of health AI equity to date: frontier-level clinical reasoning, previously gated by subscription, is now available to free users in every country ChatGPT operates. N…