OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM

OpenAI is undergoing a major strategic pivot, loosening its exclusive ties with Microsoft to partner with Amazon and other cloud providers while navigating a high-stakes trial with Elon Musk over its transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity. Simultaneously, the integration of AI into clinical medicine is accelerating, with physicians increasingly adopting AI scribes and decision-support tools like OpenEvidence to augment their practice. While these tools improve efficiency, experts warn of potential workforce de-skilling and the risks of cyberchondria when patients rely on chatbots for medical management. Additionally, researchers are experimenting with "Talkie," a vintage language model trained exclusively on pre-1930 data, to explore the feasibility of using AI for long-term forecasting and to understand how historical data shapes the reasoning and biases of modern machine learning systems.