Sneha Mehta

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Google and a Singapore Gut-Microbiome Firm Bet AI Can Turn Stool Samples Into Daily Meal Advice

Google and Singapore microbiome firm AMILI launched AMILI Optimise, an eight-week AI program that turns stool samples, glucose readings and meal photos into personalized nutrition advice, entering a gut-health market that has drawn $500 million in VC funding even as clinicians and a 2025 Lancet consensus statement warn the underlying science remains unproven.

August 14, 2026 · 4 min read

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Black Book Poll of 507 Health Leaders Finds AI Is Inside the EHR Now, but Nobody Can Scale It Safely Yet

A 507-respondent Black Book Research poll finds hospital AI has moved from pilot projects into daily EHR workflows, but a composite readiness score of just 94.9 out of 200 shows governance and clinician trust still lag far behind adoption.

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read

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Function Health Raises $450 Million to Prove AI-Powered Preventive Care Beats Waiting to Get Sick

Function Health has secured $450 million in non-dilutive growth financing from General Catalyst, just eight months after a $298 million Series B, to scale an AI system that turns lab tests and body scans into personalized risk profiles.

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read

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A Drug Designed Entirely by AI Reaches Its Final Round of Human Testing

Insilico Medicine's rentosertib, a lung disease drug whose target and molecule were both discovered by generative AI, has entered Phase III trials after showing measurable lung-function gains in an earlier study.

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read

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New Jersey Hospital Network Puts an AI Doctor’s Assistant Inside Your Patient Portal

Atlantic Health and K Health launched PatientGPT, an AI tool wired into MyChart medical records, to help 7.5 million New Jersey residents get guided to the right level of care.

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read

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Twelve Major Hospital Systems Join Forces With Aidoc to Fix AI Diagnosis at Scale

Advocate Health, Mount Sinai, Northwell and nine other health systems caring for nearly 20 million patients a year have formed a Diagnostic AI Consortium with Aidoc to standardize how AI is used in radiology.

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read

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Eight Sleep Hits $1.5 Billion Valuation, Bets on AI That Predicts Your Night Before It Starts

Eight Sleep reached a $1.5 billion valuation in 2026 on the strength of an AI model trained on over a billion hours of sleep data, and has filed with the FDA for Class II clearance to detect sleep apnea.

August 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Apple Delays Its AI Health Coach, Betting Reliable Data Beats a Flashy Feature

Apple shipped a redesigned Health app and better sleep tracking in watchOS 27 at WWDC 2026 but delayed its AI health coach, Project Mulberry, saying it wants more reliable sensor data first.

August 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Samsung Turns Galaxy Watch Into an ‘AI Health Companion’ With New Vitals Score

Samsung's June 2026 Samsung Health update introduces Vitals, Heart Health Score, Daily Cardio Load, and Fitness Index, analyzing five overnight bio-signals ahead of a new Galaxy Watch unveiled July 22.

August 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Eli Lilly Fires Up LillyPod, Pharma’s Largest Company-Owned AI Supercomputer

Eli Lilly has launched LillyPod, a 1,016-GPU NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra supercomputer delivering over 9,000 petaflops, which the company describes as the largest AI system owned outright by a pharmaceutical company, to accelerate drug discovery and genomics research.

August 13, 2026 · 3 min read