OpenAI Just Dropped Three Bombs, and One of Them Might Make Your Job Obsolete
While everyone’s distracted by leadership drama, OpenAI quietly launched features that could reshape healthcare and eliminate white-collar work
You know OpenAI is going through massive turbulence right now. Leadership drama, board chaos, the whole nine yards. But that’s not stopping them from dropping absolute bombs.
OpenAI just released three major announcements at once. The first could transform your AI into a personal doctor. The second could turn your assistant into an employee.
And the third?
The third option could potentially turn everyone into a mere spectator.
Introducing ChatGPT Health
A dedicated experience in ChatGPT designed for health and wellness.openai.com
Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex
The most advanced agentic coding model for professional software engineering and defensive cybersecurity.openai.com
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-go/
What you’re about to discover about that last announcement might make you see your own work completely differently.
ChatGPT Health: Your AI Doctor Is Here
Let’s start with what’s making headlines: ChatGPT Health. OpenAI officially launched a dedicated health space directly inside ChatGPT. And this isn’t just another conversation mode. This is a standalone product with its own space, its own memory, and most importantly, the ability to connect to your actual medical data.
The numbers are staggering. More than 230 million people worldwide ask ChatGPT health questions every week. Think about that for a second. OpenAI didn’t just observe this phenomenon. They decided to make it a core pillar of their product strategy.
Concretely, you’ll be able to connect Apple Health to share sleep and activity data, MyFitnessPal for nutritional information, and even your medical records through a partnership with Bewell, which aggregates data from over 2 million U.S. healthcare providers. It will initially launch in the American market, but I expect there will also be an option to manually upload information, such as blood test results.
The stated goal from Fidji Simo, CEO of Consumer Products at OpenAI, is pretty clear: transform ChatGPT into a super personal assistant capable of helping you with all aspects of your life.
There’s also a revealing anecdote. Simo herself tells how ChatGPT potentially saved her from a serious medical error. She’d been hospitalized for a kidney stone with infection, and an intern prescribed a standard antibiotic. When she checked with ChatGPT using her medical history, the system detected that this medication risked reactivating a serious infection she’d had years earlier.
The intern admitted he only had a few minutes per patient during rounds and that medical records aren’t organized to make this information easily visible.
On the privacy front, OpenAI is implementing specific safeguards. Health conversations are isolated from the rest of your ChatGPT exchanges. Health data can’t feed into your normal conversations, and crucially, this data isn’t used to train their models. That’s a strong promise, considering trust is everything in this sector.
But here’s what’s interesting. This launch comes in a pretty specific context. OpenAI recently revealed that over one million ChatGPT users per week send messages containing explicit indicators of suicidal planning or intention to self-harm. This statistic gives you an idea of what people are already sharing with AI and explains why OpenAI takes mental health very seriously in this new feature.
