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Takeda Signs $600 Million AI Drug Discovery Deal With Insilico Medicine
Takeda signed a $600 million AI drug discovery deal with Insilico Medicine, joining Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca in a wave of major pharma bets on AI-driven drug development in 2026.
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Eli Lilly Expands AI Drug Discovery Bet With $2.75 Billion Insilico Medicine Deal
Eli Lilly signed a deal worth up to $2.75 billion with Insilico Medicine to develop new drugs using AI, one of 2026's largest AI drug discovery partnerships.
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WellSpan Health Expands Hippocratic AI Deal to Platform-Wide Use Across Every Care Setting
WellSpan Health expanded its partnership with Hippocratic AI on July 30, 2026 into a platform-wide, multi-year deal covering inbound, outbound, ambulatory, and inpatient care, moving its Ana voice agent beyond scheduling into clinical navigation.
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AstraZeneca Signs Up to $1.5 Billion AI Drug-Discovery Deal With insitro to Target MASH and Cardiomyopathies
AstraZeneca signed an AI drug-discovery deal with insitro on October 15, 2026 worth up to $1.5 billion, targeting MASH and cardiomyopathies using insitro's Virtual Human machine-learning platform.
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Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation as AI Drug Design Reaches Eli Lilly and Pfizer
Chai Discovery has raised a $400 million Series C round led by Index Ventures at a $3.8 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth from seven months earlier as its AI-designed antibodies move into partnerships with Eli Lilly and Pfizer.
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OpenAI Acquires Health-Tech Startup Torch to Build ‘Unified Medical Memory’ for ChatGPT Health
OpenAI has acquired Torch, a four-person health-tech startup building a unified patient data layer for AI systems, in a deal reported at $60 million to $100 million as part of its push into consumer health products.
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University of Texas System to Deploy Generative AI Across All Health Institutions With Qualified Health
The University of Texas System is rolling out a generative AI chat platform and staff productivity agents across its health institutions in partnership with Qualified Health, one of the broadest academic-medicine AI deployments announced in 2026.
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AstraZeneca and Oracle Launch Global AI Collaboration to Speed Clinical Trials and Early Diagnosis
AstraZeneca and Oracle announced a global AI collaboration on October 20, 2026 to speed clinical trial recruitment and early diagnosis, starting with a hypertension pilot in Abu Dhabi built on deidentified real-world data.
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Swedish MASAI Trial Finds AI-Supported Mammography Catches More Cancers Without More False Alarms
Sweden's randomized MASAI trial found AI-supported mammography improved detection of clinically relevant breast cancers without raising false-positive rates, bolstering the evidence base for AI-assisted screening.
