Good morning. In today’s edition:

• 🏥 ChatGPT Health launch
• 🌉 New US-Canada bridge
• 🤔 Are redheads going extinct?

…and much more.

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“Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”

–Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

ChatGPT is ready to move beyond planning a vacation around that one restaurant you saw on TikTok, and into analyzing your bloodwork and exercise routine.

OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Health across the US late last week, giving its chatbot a front-row seat to users’ step counts, sleep schedules, and lab results for those who opt in.

Dr. Chat will see you now

ChatGPT Health is a dedicated tab within the chatbot’s UI that allows users to submit a range of medical data to receive personalized answers to questions about their health.

• Users can choose to import data from health apps like Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, and Weight Watchers, or choose to upload official medical records to ChatGPT through back-end integration with a digital health platform.
• OpenAI says the new Health tab contains extra safeguards, including additional encryption protections, and will always check in with users before taking action in a connected plugin.

Unlike your doctor, ChatGPT won’t actually be diagnosing anything—or raising an eyebrow when you mumble that you haven’t had a salad in a few weeks. OpenAI says the tool is strictly a supplement, not a substitute, for IRL medical care, and it's up to each user’s discretion to interpret the bot’s advice.

Side effects may include loss of privacy

Some medical experts warn of privacy concerns associated with sharing sensitive personal information. They suggest users should assume any information provided to ChatGPT or other chatbots is no longer private, as AI companies aren’t governed by HIPAA or any federal regulatory body when it comes to health information.

Experts also note the risk of receiving incorrect information from AI chatbots, which studies show are designed to prioritize being helpful over medical accuracy, and to always respond with an answer.

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Forgot your password? Google thinks your face should do the trick.

The tech giant announced a new selfie video sign-in option that lets users verify their identity by recording a short video, instead of relying on a password or trusted device.

Taking logins at face value

The setup is similar to enrolling in facial recognition features like Face ID on an iPhone, with users looking into their camera and following prompts to perform simple head movements to capture multiple angles of their face.

• If they're ever locked out of their account or don't have access to their usual phone, computer, or two-factor authentication method, they can record another selfie video.
• Google then compares it to the encrypted reference video stored in the cloud to confirm their identity and restore account access.
• The selfie videos are encrypted, can be deleted by users at any time, and are only used for account recovery unless users choose to share them for additional purposes.

The major challenge, according to Google, is proving there's a real person behind the login. The tech giant says its new system uses "liveness" checks that require users to perform simple movements, while also looking for signs of spoofing attempts like fake photos, bots, or AI-generated deepfakes.

It aims to address a real problem. Last month, cybersecurity repositories recorded 124 million unique passwords and 56 million email addresses stolen from personal devices by infostealer malware targeting Microsoft PCs.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📈 Memory-chip maker CXMT saw its shares rise 466% in its stock-market debut yesterday to become the most valuable company listed in mainland China (~$484 billion).
• 🏢 New York City halts construction at a second Manhattan office tower being converted into apartments, citing failure by the contractor to report cracks in two steel beams that were repaired; it marks the second such conversion placed on hold this month due to structural concerns.
• 🍽️ Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino to step down from her role next month; it ends a three-year tenure that put the restaurant chain at the center of a political firestorm following controversial changes to the brand—including a new logo, menu, and interior design—which were later walked back.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏥 Carly Simon, 83, reveals she’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and also recently underwent surgery for basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer; the "You're So Vain" singer is preparing to release her first new album since 2008, called Comes in Waves.
• 🎓 Stanford football players become first team to form campus chapter of the College Football Players Association, which aims to eventually unionize college athletes.
• 📺 NBCUniversal reaches agreement to bundle Peacock with YouTube Premium starting early next year for a yet-to-be-determined price.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🖥️ Nvidia launches new cybersecurity initiative called the Open Secure AI Alliance; the group, which also includes Microsoft, SpaceX, Palantir and dozens of other companies, aims to develop free, open-source AI cybersecurity tools.
• 🤖 AI robotics startup Enigma raises $71 million to study and identify the most intuitive ways in which humans communicate with its 100+ proprietary AI robots.
• 🕰️🍽️ Confining mealtimes and snacks to a nine-hour window each day while also cutting off meals four hours before bed is linked to better cognitive function in older adults, new study finds.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

• 🏥📖 Dr. Anthony Fauci, former NIAID head and chief White House medical adviser, had 1,000+ pages of his diary entries published by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), revealing details of Fauci’s day-to-day role during the Covid pandemic.
• 🗳️ DNC committee votes to have South Carolina hold the first Democratic presidential primary in 2028, in move seen as a boost to Kamala Harris’ candidacy.
• 🌉 Gordie Howe International Bridge linking Canada to the US via Detroit, MI, is now opened for business; the $6.4 billion bridge now becomes a less-expensive alternative to the privately owned Ambassador Bridge linking Canada and Detroit. | 🪖🛻 Ford says it has joined the race to build the US Army’s newest tactical truck, which would double as a stealthy power provider on the battlefield.

☝️ Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia took home a record-tying fifth Tour de France title Sunday evening, becoming the youngest cyclist in history to reach that mark at 27 years old. Pogačar averaged a blistering 26.9 MPH throughout the race, breaking his own record for fastest Tour de France of all time (set last year).

🤔 Did you know? Medieval football, or mob football, was an early variant of modern-day soccer that was invented and played across Europe during the Middle Ages. It involved an unlimited number of players on opposing teams, who would clash together and struggle to drag an inflated pig's bladder to markers at each end of a town, using any means possible—as long as it wasn’t murder or manslaughter.

📰 Worth a read: If another advanced civilization lived on Earth before us, would we know?

🖱️ What we’re clicking:

• Are redheads going extinct?
• 1-in-15-million pregnancy brings identical quadruplets
• The world’s largest sand battery solves biggest headache for renewables

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❓ Our question to you: If the 2026 midterm elections were held today, which political party’s candidate would you support for US Congress?

• Democrat: 57%
• Republican: 31%
• Third party: 5%
• Unsure/other: 7%

Read some of the most thoughtful longform responses.

+Note on sample size: We received 644 votes and 77 longform responses.

❓ Trivia: The name for the wireless technology Bluetooth honors a 10th-century king from which country?

🎓 True or false?…Bronze is a pure element found naturally.

🤔 Riddle me this: It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?

🐢 A crowd of New Yorkers gathered on Coney Island to cheer on Pancake, a Kemp's ridley sea turtle finally returning to the wild after eight months of intense rehab. Pancake almost froze to death following a Cape Cod cold front last November, but the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital nursed the endangered animal back to health.

❓ Trivia: Denmark

🎓 T/F: False, bronze is an alloy made by combining copper and tin

🤔 Riddle: Your name

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