Slingshot AI withdrew its Ash therapy chatbot from the UK in January 2026, citing unclear medical-device regulations, spotlighting the growing legal gray zone around AI mental-health apps.
University of Pennsylvania researchers built ApexGO, a generative AI system that redesigns weak antibiotic peptide candidates, and two of its AI-optimized molecules matched last-resort antibiotic polymyxin B in mouse infection tests, according to a study published in Nature Machine Intelligence.
New data presented at the American Heart Association's International Stroke Conference show Viz.ai's care-coordination platform cut door-in-door-out times for large vessel occlusion stroke patients by 44% at Adventist Health plus Rideout, nearly a 90-minute improvement over historical performance.
CVS Health won a 2026 Newsweek AI Impact Award for an AI tool that uses large language models to interpret complex prescription directions and calculate dosages across its nearly 9,000 retail pharmacies, part of a broader industry push to automate medication safety checks.
The Seattle Fire Department has used Danish AI company Corti to analyze every 911 medical call since December 2023, routing some callers to a nurse line instead of an ambulance, without disclosing the practice to the public or the city council.
Twelve major U.S. health systems, from Cedars-Sinai to Northwell, have joined Aidoc to form a Diagnostic AI Consortium aimed at setting shared safety and governance standards for diagnostic AI, with the first results expected in 2027.
Health startup Casana has launched a toilet seat embedded with AI-powered sensors that passively track blood pressure, heart rate, and other vitals, betting on a daily routine most people never skip.
The FDA has cleared Brainomix's stroke-imaging AI to read non-contrast CT scans, a format used in roughly 60% of U.S. stroke imaging, extending fast triage software far beyond its original contrast-scan clearance.
Ardent Health says its clinicians have now completed 1 million patient encounters supported by Ambience Healthcare's ambient AI documentation platform, reporting a 45% cut in charting time and five hours saved per clinician weekly.
An Emory University study of 2,784 U.S. hospitals found that 62.6% have adopted ambient AI documentation tools, but adoption is concentrated in wealthier, larger, urban hospitals, raising concerns about a widening care gap.