🧠 Meta Boss Waits for Neuralink

Plus OpenAI enters hospitals and Musk burns $8B

January 12, 2026

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🗞️In this edition

  • Meta AI Chief Won't Have Kids Until Neuralink Is Ready

  • Outskill’s 48-hour live AI sprint to get you using the exact tools and workflows that matter in 2026.

  • OpenAI Launches Healthcare Products at Eight Major Hospital Systems

  • Musk's xAI Burns $8 Billion in Nine Months While Planning Robot Future

  • In other AI news –

    • A16z Bets $30M on Data Marketplace for AI Training

    • Lambda Raises $1.5B After Microsoft Deal

    • Allianz Partners With Anthropic to Automate Insurance Claims

  • 4 must-try AI tools

Three stories this week show how personal AI decisions are becoming.

One company is entering hospitals. Another is burning billions on infrastructure. And a tech executive is planning his family around when certain technology becomes available.

Healthcare, manufacturing, human enhancement. The technology is moving beyond chatbots into decisions about bodies, families, and physical systems.

The spending is accelerating. The bets are getting more personal. And the timeline assumptions keep shifting.

This edition looks at where AI money is going, what it's building, and how far some leaders will take integration with their own lives.

What's happening:

Alexandr Wang says he's waiting to have children until brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink become available. The 28-year-old Scale AI founder and Meta's new Chief AI Officer made the statement on The Shawn Ryan Show podcast.

His reasoning centers on neuroplasticity. The brain's ability to adapt and form new connections is strongest in the first seven years of life. Wang believes kids born with brain chips will learn to use them in ways adults never could.

Neuralink has implanted chips in three human patients so far. One patient can edit video using only his thoughts. The technology is focused on medical applications like restoring mobility and communication for paralyzed people.

Meta recently bought 49 percent of Scale AI for $15 billion and tapped Wang to lead its superintelligence lab. The goal is catching up to OpenAI and Google in the AI race.

Why this is important:

This shows how seriously some tech leaders take human-AI integration. Wang isn't just building AI systems, he's planning his family around when those systems can be implanted in children's brains.

The neuroplasticity argument has merit. Children's brains do adapt to new tools better than adults. But there's zero long-term safety data on implanting chips in developing brains.

Neuralink's head surgeon told Andrew Huberman that drugs like LSD and psilocybin are actually more promising for enhancing neuroplasticity than electrodes. You need to affect the whole brain, not just where you put an implant.

The ethical questions are massive. Should parents be able to give young children elective brain surgery for cognitive enhancement? What happens to kids whose parents can't afford brain chips?

Wang's timeline suggests he thinks this technology could be routine within a decade. That's an aggressive bet given Neuralink has only three patients and companies like Synchron and Motif are still in early trials.

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What's happening:

OpenAI just launched AI products for healthcare. One for doctors at eight major hospitals including HCA Healthcare and Stanford Medicine. One for consumers called ChatGPT Health.

The consumer version connects to your medical records and pulls data from Apple Health and other apps. Then it answers your health questions using your actual health information, not just generic advice.

The doctor version is HIPAA compliant and was tested by 260 physicians over two years. They reviewed outputs over 600,000 times across different health areas.

But neither product is meant for diagnosis or treatment. They help you understand health information and prepare for doctor appointments, not tell you what's wrong.

OpenAI says 230 million people already ask ChatGPT health questions every week. Now they're making it official with privacy protections and hospital partnerships.

The consumer version starts with limited early access. OpenAI plans wider rollout in coming weeks.

Why this is important:

OpenAI wants to be the AI you trust with your health, but they're not the only ones. Google partnered with the same medical records company in October, and OpenAI just shipped first.

230 million people ask ChatGPT health questions every week. That's more people than live in most countries, and the demand already exists.

Eight major hospitals are putting this into their clinical systems. That's different from random people asking if they should go to urgent care, this is professional medical adoption.

But the products can't diagnose or treat you. So what are you actually getting beyond information you could find elsewhere?

The long term play is about data ownership. If OpenAI becomes your default health AI, they own your most valuable personal data and your most urgent questions.

That creates a competitive moat that's extremely hard for others to breach once established.

Comments from the editor:

OpenAI didn't say how they'll make money from this. The consumer version is free and the hospital version has no announced price.

260 doctors reviewed 600,000 outputs over two years. That's about 2,300 reviews per doctor, which raises questions about how thorough the validation really was.

The legal disclaimer says the product can't diagnose or treat you. That protects OpenAI legally but makes you wonder why you'd give AI your medical records if you can't trust its advice.

Google has the same medical records partnership but hasn't shipped yet. Moving first matters, but Google owns Android and search, which might matter more.

The accuracy question is what nobody wants to discuss. One wrong health recommendation that hurts someone could destroy OpenAI's reputation and business.

They're betting their AI is reliable enough for this. We'll find out if they're right.

What's happening:

Elon Musk's xAI burned through $7.8 billion in the first nine months of 2025. That's roughly $1 billion per month spent on data centers, Nvidia chips, and AI talent.

The company lost $1.46 billion in the September quarter alone, up from $1 billion the previous quarter. Revenue was only $107 million, nowhere close to covering costs.

Despite the losses, xAI raised $20 billion at a $230 billion valuation. Investors include Nvidia, Valor Equity Partners, and Qatar Investment Authority.

Here's the surprising part. XAI told investors it's building AI to power Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots, not just chatbots. Musk previously said xAI and Tesla worked on "different problems," but documents show otherwise.

The company is expanding its Memphis data center to 2 gigawatts of capacity. That's one of the largest private AI facilities under construction.

Why this is important:

This shows how expensive the AI race has become. $1 billion per month on infrastructure, chips, and people is the new normal for companies trying to compete at the frontier.

The Optimus connection blurs the line between xAI and Tesla. Tesla shareholders fund one company while another builds critical technology for it. That raises questions about corporate structure and who benefits.

The $230 billion valuation shows investors still believe despite massive losses. They're betting Musk can outspend and outbuild competitors before the money runs out.

But revenue of $107 million per quarter versus $8 billion in nine months of spending is a massive gap. That has to close eventually, even with patient investors.

The bet only works if the technology delivers breakthroughs. Otherwise it's just burning capital faster than anyone else.

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AI stopped being just software.

It's becoming medical infrastructure. Manufacturing intelligence. And for some, a prerequisite for starting a family.

The gap between what's possible today and what people are planning for tomorrow keeps widening. OpenAI ships healthcare products. Musk spends billions on robot AI. Wang waits for brain chips.

These aren't predictions anymore. They're active investments and life decisions.

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