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Utah Opens Its AI Health Sandbox to Prescription Software and Women's Health Tools
The state has approved new pilots letting AI companies test drug-management and women's-health products on real patients, with independent reviewers now watching over the process.
The hardware bottleneck that AI cannot fix in humanoid robots
Smarter software is only half the problem. The real challenge is squeezing motors, sensors and safety systems into a robot's wrist.
Google DeepMind Maps Every Possible DNA Change in the Human Genome
A new tool called AlphaGenome Atlas holds predictions for nine billion genetic variants. Researchers can use it free today, and here is what that actually means.
Arm Holdings CEO says AI will help cure cancer within our lifetimes
Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip designer behind most smartphones, believes AI will eventually crack biological puzzles too complex for humans alone. He also sees humanoid robots going mainstream within five years.
A GP Says AI Consultation Notes Are Making Her Job Harder, Not Easier
An out-of-hours doctor warns that AI-written patient notes are riddled with errors and contradictions, and that she trusts a colleague's typed summary far more than anything a machine produces.
Enovis pays $180 million to bring bone-surgery robots to the operating room
A US medical device company is buying a French surgical robotics firm to put AI-guided robotic arms into knee and shoulder operations within two years.
Screen-Free Wearables Are Booming, and AI Is Both the Reason and the Cure
A new wave of trackers collects your health data without demanding your constant attention. AI helped create the problem they're trying to solve, and it may also be what makes them actually useful.
The VC Who Left $4 Billion Behind to Bet Small on AI Biology
Vijay Pande ran one of venture capital's biggest biotech funds. Now he wants to prove that a smaller, AI-native firm can do what the giants cannot: treat biology like engineering.
AI Alone Will Be a Better Doctor Than Your Doctor, a New Paper Argues
A JAMA paper co-authored by a leading oncologist and a tech investor argues that fully autonomous AI will outperform both human doctors and human-AI teams by 2030. Even the sceptics are starting to concede the point.
London surgeons used AI to remove a brain tumour, and their patient kept his sight
A 48-year-old man is recovering after a historic operation at a London NHS hospital where AI analysed live camera footage to flag anatomy surgeons had to avoid.
These AI-powered glasses want to replace your hearing aid
Legato has raised $12 million to build hearing-assistance technology into ordinary-looking eyeglass frames, targeting the 40 million Americans with mild to moderate hearing loss who never seek treatment.
This startup keeps human skin alive for weeks to train an AI on it
Michael Polansky, Lady Gaga's partner and a former senior figure in tech philanthropy, has spent years building an AI startup that discovers skincare compounds using living skin tissue kept alive outside the body. He is only now talking about it.
Yorkshire Patients Say Their GP's AI Receptionist Cannot Understand Their Accent
A local health watchdog in Rotherham says the AI system answering calls at several GP surgeries struggles with the area's broad Yorkshire dialect, leaving patients unable to book appointments.
A Robot Lab Grows Human Tissue to Give AI the Data It Needs to Find Real Drugs
Vivodyne's warehouse-scale machines test drug candidates on lab-grown human organs, not mice. The startup says this is the missing ingredient that could make AI drug discovery actually work.
Meet Moxi 2.0: The Hospital Robot That Learns on the Job
Diligent Robotics is rolling out its upgraded delivery robot to U.S. hospitals. It thinks faster, runs longer, and gets smarter with every shift.