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.
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.
Oura's Ring 5, shipping June 4, 2026, is 40 percent smaller and adds AI-driven Health Radar blood-pressure monitoring, GLP-1 Insights, and AI meal-tracking features starting at $399.
Whoop's May 2026 update adds AI features called My Memory and Proactive Check-Ins, plus on-demand clinician video consultations and electronic health record syncing for members.
A new study presented at the 2026 International Stroke Conference found Viz.ai's platform cut door-in-door-out transfer time for large vessel occlusion stroke patients by 44% at a regional Adventist Health + Rideout hospital, reducing care-team notification time from 45 minutes to 7.
Cellens, a Boston cancer diagnostics startup, raised a $6.5M Series Seed round led by SOSV for its AI and atomic-force-microscopy-based BioFeel test, which identified every recurrence case in a nearly 100-patient study versus 60-65% sensitivity for standard molecular assays.
Helsinki-based Aiforia secured €20 million in milestone-gated venture debt financing from the European Investment Bank to expand its deep-learning platform for AI-assisted cancer detection in digital pathology.
Owkin announced on June 5, 2026 a multi-year expansion of its Sanofi partnership, licensing its K Pro 'AI Scientist' platform for five years to build autonomous AI agents that independently carry out pharmaceutical research tasks.
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.
Aidoc won FDA clearance in January 2026 for a foundation-model AI workflow that triages 14 acute conditions from a single abdominal CT scan, hitting 97% mean sensitivity and 98% mean specificity in its pivotal study.