French robotics company Wandercraft commercially launched Eve on September 17, 2026, the first FDA-cleared self-balancing personal exoskeleton available to wheelchair users with spinal cord injuries at any neurological level, powered by AI trained on billions of simulated and real-world steps.
Youper, an AI-powered emotional health app founded in 2016 that grew to more than 3 million users, will stop working on September 30, 2026 and delete all user data October 1 after years without meaningful funding beyond a single 2019 seed round.
The FDA cleared Aidoc's CARE foundation-model AI to flag 14 acute abdominal conditions from one CT scan, with a pivotal study showing up to 98.5% sensitivity, as hospitals race to cut emergency-department imaging backlogs.
Amazon began rolling out its generative-AI assistant Alexa+ in India on September 16, letting users mix Hindi and English mid-sentence while it books rides, orders groceries and controls smart-home gadgets.
Finnish studio Sober Bar launched Pureo on September 17, an AI-powered food-tracking app that analyzes photos of meals for sugar content and processing level alongside standard calorie counts.
The bipartisan Health Information Privacy Reform Act, advanced unanimously out of the Senate HELP Committee, would close the long-standing gap that leaves data from smartwatches, health rings, and AI wellness apps largely unprotected by federal privacy law.
A prospective study from Ghent University Hospital found that the SkinVision AI skin cancer app struggled to reliably capture images of concerning lesions in real-world clinical conditions, raising questions about its accuracy outside controlled settings.
AI musculoskeletal-care startup Sword Health is acquiring Headspace in an all-cash deal worth roughly $300 million, betting that pairing physical therapy AI with a 140-million-download meditation brand can build a single, subscription-driven mental-and-physical-health platform.
Samsung C&T has launched Wellfy, an AI wellness platform that embeds ambient health monitoring into homes and construction sites rather than relying on wearables — a new front in the AI health race.
Confluence Health says its ambient AI scribe saves primary care doctors 34 minutes of EHR time daily, as note-taking AI becomes the most widely adopted healthcare AI tool in the country at 68% adoption.