OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated space designed for users to engage in health-related conversations with enhanced privacy and security. This feature allows optional integration with personal health records and wellness apps like Apple Health and MyFitnessPal, providing tailored responses. The introduction of ChatGPT Health addresses the significant demand, with over 230 million users globally asking health and wellness questions weekly. OpenAI emphasizes that the tool is intended to support, not replace, medical care, diagnosis, or treatment. The feature is rolling out to users outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK.

This paper proposes a quantifiable, bottom-up framework for detecting agency in intelligent systems by analyzing their information-processing order. It defines three orders: Class I (reactive, memoryless), Class II (memory with fixed rules), and Class III (adaptive, rules change over time). The authors argue that these dynamics, particularly Class III, represent necessary informational conditions for genuine agency. This hierarchy offers a measurable, substrate-independent method to identify the informational precursors of agency, applicable across diverse systems like AI models and neural cultures.

AI company Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $10 billion at a valuation of $350 billion, nearly doubling its previous valuation of $183 billion from just four months prior. This significant funding round, potentially led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue Management, underscores the intense investor interest and capital flow into leading AI startups. Anthropic, known for its Claude LLMs and founded by former OpenAI staff, aims to accelerate its growth, particularly in enterprise adoption, as it competes in the rapidly expanding generative AI market.