This hub tracks artificial intelligence in health and medicine — diagnostic and monitoring tools, AI-assisted surgery and drug discovery, health-focused assistants like ChatGPT Health, and how insurers and hospitals are putting AI to work. We also cover the safety and privacy questions these tools raise for patients and providers.
Samsung Research introduced xMAE and HiMAE, two on-device AI models that read heart and sleep signals from wearables in under a millisecond, with papers accepted at ICML and ICLR 2026.
Read more →Anthropic retuned Claude Fable 5's biology classifier to stop over-blocking everyday health questions, while keeping virology, toxicology, and molecular-design queries restricted.
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OpenAI opened ChatGPT Health to every US adult, letting the assistant read your Apple Health data and hospital records. Here's what it actually does — and why HIPAA doesn't cover it.
Read more →OpenAI has opened its ChatGPT Health feature to all US adults, letting users link Apple Health data and records from Epic and Oracle Health straight into their chats.
Read more →Anthropic is offering researchers and early-stage biotechs up to $50,000 in free Claude access to accelerate rare disease research, with partners including the Monarch Initiative and Every Cure.
Read more →A Shanghai hospital implanted China's first commercially approved brain-computer interface on July 13, giving a paralyzed patient thought-controlled hand movement.
Read more →Neko Health, the AI-assisted preventive health-scanning startup founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million in Series C funding as it prepares to open its first US clinic in New York.
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AI models now help scientists find and design new drug candidates in weeks instead of years. Here's what AI drug discovery is and how it actually works.
Read more →Health insurers now use AI to screen and sometimes auto-deny claims and prior-authorization requests in seconds. Here's how the systems work, why lawsuits followed, and what protections exist.
Read more →A Bronx hospital eliminated 12 utilization-review nursing jobs and moved insurance-approval work to AI software, prompting a union grievance over a newly signed labor contract.
Read more →Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two live surgeries in a UC San Diego trial, a Nature study shows — a preclinical step toward cheaper, more portable alternatives to today's surgical robots.
Read more →AI is helping doctors detect diseases earlier, discover drugs faster, and reduce diagnostic errors — but it also raises serious questions about bias, privacy, and the limits of machine judgment.
Read more →Anthropic released Claude Science in beta on June 30, an integrated environment connecting AI to 60+ scientific databases and lab compute for biomedical and life sciences research.
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