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The Sunday Best (01/11/2026)

More than 40 million people globally turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, according to a report OpenAI has shared exclusively with Axios. Patients see ChatGPT as an “ally” in navigating their health care, according to analysis of anonymized interactions with ChatGPT and a survey of ChatGPT users.

OpenAI has been dropping hints this week about AI’s role as a “healthcare ally” — and today, the company is announcing a product to go along with that idea: ChatGPT Health. The company makes sure to mention in the blog post that ChatGPT Health is “not intended for diagnosis or treatment,” but it can’t fully control how people end up using AI.

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As the Affordable Care Act was readying for passage, a prescient study was published, asking physicians about their preferences for reforming doctor payment. No surprise, 80% of all docs supported boosting pay for generalists. However, only 40% of doctors would support a 3% cut in specialty salaries to fund such an endeavor (most generalists favor it).

New federal dietary guidelines announced on Wednesday include a dramatic change on alcohol consumption. The guidelines instruct Americans to “limit alcoholic beverages,” a change from previous guidance that suggested U.S. adults ages 21 and over limit consumption to two drinks or fewer per day for men and one drink or less per day for women.

Protein is having a restaurant menu moment — and it’s getting bigger. Now shorthand for “better-for-you” eating, it’s reshaping menus as consumers dine out less, scrutinize value more and increasingly use GLP-1 drugs.

Every year the markets provide us with lessons on prudent investment strategies. With great frequency, markets offer remedial courses covering lessons they taught in previous years. In 2025, investors were provided with 10 lessons. Many of them are repeats from prior years.

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This time of year, many of us resolve to take on a new good habit (or two). In addition to popular resolutions like exercising more and reconnecting with family, some investors should resolve to simplify their portfolios in 2026.

There’s a strange comfort in believing someone out there knows what the market will do next. Don’t fall for it. People who make predictions for a living are about as accurate as a 50/50 coin toss.

High earners, especially in medicine, law, and tech, inhabit a strange financial terrain. From the outside looking in, they appear affluent. On paper, they are. But in lived experience?

Over the last decade, retail participation in financial markets has grown from a trivial amount to over a hundred million monthly active traders. Unlike the speculative mania of the 1920s or the dot com bubble of the 1990s, this increase in retail participation represents a structural change that is likely to persist across market cycles.

According to the BLS, both total nonfarm payroll employment (+50,000) and the unemployment rate (4.4 percent) changed little in December. Employment continued to trend up in food services and drinking places, health care, and social assistance. Retail trade lost jobs.

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