Major medical societies pushed back on growing AI autonomy in clinical care, arguing diagnostic AI remains a valuable tool but physician judgment must stay central, especially for cases falling outside a model's training patterns.
Gabit raised roughly $4.3 million to expand its AI-powered preventive healthcare platform in India, part of a broader funding wave into wearable startups built around proprietary health data.
Updated FDA guidance on wellness software could let more AI-powered wearables skip formal medical device review, a shift welcomed by industry but criticized by safety advocates.
A new University of Chicago wearable cardiac patch uses on-device AI to detect dangerous heart arrhythmias with 99.6% accuracy, without needing a cloud connection.
Oura's new Ring 5 and Whoop's telehealth expansion both lean on AI to turn wearables into predictive health tools, even as the FDA and a proposed class-action lawsuit challenge the accuracy of their clinical-sounding claims.
A new Vyntra report estimates AI-driven scams caused $442 billion in global losses over the past year, with voice-cloning attacks on elderly victims emerging as one of the fastest-growing tactics.
OpenAI is targeting a second-half-2026 launch for its first hardware device, built with Jony Ive's design team around a screen-free, voice-driven interaction model rather than a traditional smartphone.
Generate Biomedicines and Zealand Pharma signed a deal worth up to $1.2 billion to design AI-generated multispecific protein therapeutics for obesity, marking Zealand's first move beyond peptide-based drugs.
UpDoc revealed that the FDA cleared its patient-facing LLM-based insulin management software back in December 2025, months before announcing it alongside pilot programs at Cleveland Clinic, Allegheny Health Network, and UCSF Health.
A new British Journal of Dermatology study of the SkinVision app found strong accuracy when clinicians captured images but a sharp drop-off when patients photographed their own skin, while a separate Dutch study of 2.2 million users found big jumps in both cancer detection and false-positive referrals.