MedCity News January 25, 2026
As OpenAI and Anthropic move deeper into healthcare, experts say AI chatbots are becoming the new front door to medicine. This shift is shaking things up for some health tech startups, redefining the patient-provider relationship, and intensifying debates over safety, privacy and accountability.
This month, two of the hottest AI companies in San Francisco announced a major push into healthcare — moves that experts say were not only inevitable, but also timely and high-stakes.
These AI rivals — Anthropic and OpenAI, the makers of the widely used large language models Claude and ChatGPT, respectively — unveiled new suites of tools for healthcare organizations and everyday consumers. These moves reflect a shift in how patients are accessing medical guidance — one...
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