AI Dispatch - January 13, 2026. Daily briefing on Google's Gemini-powered Gmail upgrades and opt-in choice, the U.S.-led "Pax Silica" AI supply-chain initiative, OpenAI's healthcare offering, CompTIA's responsible-AI courses for sales marketing, and how AI is reshaping how consumers find lawyers. Analysis, industry implications, and practical guidance for product teams, executives, and regulators.
Introduction - Why January 13, 2026 matters for AIThe first weeks of 2026 feel like a compressed snapshot of where AI is headed: aggressive consumer-facing product rollouts, high-level geopolitical framing of AI as strategic infrastructure, and sector-specific deployments that turn theory into regulated practice. Today's batch of announcements and reporting spans five connected threads:
Major consumer platforms are embedding foundation-model capabilities into everyday apps Google's Gemini in Gmail.
