{"id":248301,"date":"2026-01-16T19:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/248301\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:24:06","slug":"openai-and-anthropic-are-making-their-play-for-healthcare-and-were-not-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/248301\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI and Anthropic are making their play for healthcare, and we&#8217;re not\u00a0surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">AI companies are clustering around healthcare, and fast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In just the past week, OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/12\/openai-buys-tiny-health-records-startup-torch-for-reportedly-100m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bought health startup Torch<\/a>, Anthropic launched <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/12\/anthropic-announces-claude-for-healthcare-following-openais-chatgpt-health-reveal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Claude for Health<\/a>, and Sam Altman-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/15\/openai-invests-in-sam-altmans-brain-computer-interface-startup-merge-labs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Merge Labs closed a $250 million seed round<\/a> at an $850 million valuation. The money and products are pouring into health <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/13\/elevenlabs-ceo-says-the-voice-ai-startup-crossed-330-million-arr-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">and voice AI<\/a>, but so are concerns about hallucination risks, inaccurate medical information, and massive security vulnerabilities in systems handling sensitive patient data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today on TechCrunch\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Equity<\/a>\u00a0podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O\u2019Kane dig into why the AI world\u00a0is suddenly obsessed with healthcare, what other products can expect an AI-makeover, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to the full episode to hear:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TechCrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Overcast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>, and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@equitypod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI companies are clustering around healthcare, and fast.\u00a0 In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3673,119024,33694,103,397,396,61,60,124700,124701,1682,124702],"class_list":{"0":"post-248301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-chatgpt-health","10":"tag-equity-podcast","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-luminar","17":"tag-mergelabs","18":"tag-openai","19":"tag-type-one-energy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}