🤖 OpenAI adds ads to free ChatGPT users 🤖
Premium tiers remain ad-free as OpenAI pursues new revenue streams.

OpenAI has announced a major monetization shift by introducing targeted advertisements in ChatGPT for free and Go tier users in the United States. Ads will appear as "Sponsored Recommendations" below AI responses, with targeting based on conversation context while excluding sensitive categories like health, politics, and content involving minors. Premium subscription tiers including Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise will remain completely ad-free. OpenAI has explicitly committed to never selling user data or allowing advertisements to influence ChatGPT's responses—a critical distinction as the company scales its business model to match growing infrastructure costs. This pricing strategy could reshape how millions access AI tools daily.

 🏥 Claude steps into personal health 🏥
Anthropic's AI assistant now analyzes medical records and fitness metrics directly from mobile devices.

Anthropic has launched four new health integrations for Claude, connecting to Apple Health on iOS, Health Connect on Android, plus HealthEx and Function platforms. With explicit user opt-in, Claude can now summarize medical histories, explain test results in plain language, and detect patterns across fitness metrics—all without using health data for training. The feature is available in beta for Pro and Max subscribers in the US. This positions Anthropic as the first major AI lab to offer native health data integration, opening a new category of personalized AI assistance where users can finally get meaningful insights from fragmented health records.

🚚 Amazon enters healthcare AI race with 24/7 assistant 🚚
One Medical members get personalized medical guidance through AI

Amazon debuted Health AI for One Medical members, a 24/7 assistant that pulls from medical records, lab results, and medications to offer personalized health guidance directly in-app. The move positions Amazon squarely in the healthcare AI race alongside OpenAI's ChatGPT Health and Anthropic's Claude health integrations. The AI assistant leverages Amazon's massive healthcare infrastructure through One Medical's existing patient base to make medical information more accessible.

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🧠 Claude gets automatic Knowledge Bases for Cowork 🧠

Anthropic is preparing a major update to Claude, introducing Knowledge Bases—persistent repositories the AI can reference for context and automatically update with new information like user preferences, decisions, and lessons learned. Unlike standard memory features, these are topic-specific and user-managed, allowing selective attachment to tasks in Cowork. The update also makes Cowork the primary mode of Claude, with traditional chat becoming a toggle option within the broader productivity interface. Additional findings point to an expanded MCP connector framework enabling Claude to manage multiple remote connectors dynamically, substantially increasing automation capabilities.

🍎 Apple developing AI wearable for 2027 🍎

Apple is developing a transformative upgrade for Siri, codenamed 'Campos,' designed to function as a full AI chatbot rivaling ChatGPT. Expected with iOS 27, the new Siri will support both voice and text input, becoming the central AI interface across all Apple devices. Simultaneously, Apple is developing a dedicated AI wearable roughly the size of an AirTag, featuring cameras, microphones, and speakers, with a potential 2027 release. This integration matters because it positions Apple's entire device ecosystem around a single AI assistant under development. The system will initially leverage Google's Gemini models, providing strategic flexibility while Apple matures its own capabilities.