This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, January 12th, 2026.

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Today, AI companies move farther into health care will give you the information you require to stay healthy and safe.

I'm what's left of Tom Merritt after CES.

And I'm deep voice Rob Nunwood.

Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

Lots of stories today around companies using new generative models in the healthcare industry.

Let's start with some research and development.

NVIDIA. InVIDIA continues to place a lot of bets around multiple industries. We talked at

CES about robotics as being a big one for them. It wants to have other avenues for success,

places to sell its products to that end. Invidia plans to spend around a billion dollars

over the next five years to create a

laboratory in the san francisco area with pharmaceutical company eli lily to help engineers

understand the needs of the pharmaceutical industry and also help eli lily fine-tune models for use

in developing medicine i'm going to guess you won't see anybody call this a circular problem,

but it is the same thing, giving a company a billion dollars to then use it to buy a bunch of

Nvidia chips to create a lab to develop uses for generative models in health care.

Meanwhile, OpenAI followed up on its announcement of a tab for health in chat GPT with a new system called OpenAI for healthcare.

This is a set of products for healthcare organizations that implement HIPAA compliance, something we talked about on Friday, Rob.

You asked and they answered.

The products include some workplace automation tools for paperwork,

you know, basically helping you file forms and keep track of stuff. It's some data control and, of course,

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