☕️ AI Health, Capital Floods, and a Global Chip Standoff

This week marks a turning point in AI’s maturation. The focus is no longer just building smarter models — it’s about where AI is trusted, who controls supply, and how capital reshapes the field. Healthcare, finance, geopolitics, and infrastructure are now deeply entangled with AI’s future.

Here are our main takeaways:

Join us at AI Tangle as we untangle this week's happenings in AI!

Meta's $2B+ acquisition of Manus AI signals the shift from conversational AI to autonomous agents that complete entire tasks—research, presentations, data analysis—without constant supervision.

This session demonstrates production-tested workflows, including a style-matching presentation method that combines human content direction with AI design execution, delivering polished decks in under 20 minutes.

Attendees leave with immediately actionable frameworks plus honest guidance on current limitations and when traditional AI tools remain the better choice.

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s health-related capabilities, allowing users to ask medical questions, track symptoms, and receive structured health guidance — while stopping short of formal diagnosis. The move reflects growing demand for AI as a first-stop health interface, especially amid physician shortages and rising care costs.

While OpenAI emphasizes guardrails and disclaimers, the expansion puts ChatGPT closer to regulated territory, where accuracy, liability, and data privacy matter as much as intelligence.

Why it matters:

Anthropic is preparing a massive funding round that could value the company at $350 billion, reflecting investor appetite for frontier AI labs. The deal is expected to close in the coming weeks and comes after AI companies raised a record $222 billion in 2025, with 2026 shaping up as a major IPO year.

Chinese regulators have reportedly asked domestic tech companies to temporarily halt purchases of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips while officials assess accelerating a shift toward homegrown alternatives. The move underscores how AI infrastructure is now a geopolitical asset.

JPMorgan has launched Proxy IQ, an in-house AI system that now handles shareholder proxy voting across its $7 trillion U.S. asset management business. The system analyzes proposals and governance data, marking one of the largest real-world AI deployments in financial decision-making.

After record private investment in 2025, analysts expect 2026 to be a breakout year for AI IPOs. Late-stage firms are restructuring operations, governance, and disclosures in anticipation of public scrutiny.

With chip supply tightening and geopolitical pressure rising, investors are increasingly favoring AI software platforms and vertical applications over pure hardware bets.

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