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Healthcare is one of the sectors most affected by artificial intelligence, from diagnostics and drug discovery to hospital operations and patient care. This hub gathers our coverage of how hospitals, health systems, insurers, and health-tech companies are adopting AI, along with the practical and ethical questions that adoption raises.
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 →Chai Discovery, an AI startup that designs antibodies and other molecules from scratch, raised a $400 million Series C led by Index Ventures at a $3.8 billion valuation.
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 →A plain-language guide to robotic surgery: how it actually works, why a human is (usually) still in control, and how close AI has come to operating on its own.
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 →Meta's non-invasive AI system translates brain activity to typed text with 61% word accuracy — nearly eight times better than prior implant-free approaches — targeting people who cannot communicate due to brain injuries.
Read more →Anthropic released Claude Science in beta on June 30 — an AI workbench connecting scientists to 60-plus biological databases with reproducible outputs and built-in compute management, available to all paid subscribers.
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 →Meta's non-invasive AI system converts MEG brain recordings into typed text at 61% word accuracy — a seven-fold leap over prior non-invasive approaches and a step toward surgery-free brain-computer interfaces.
Read more →Anthropic's new Claude Science workbench integrates over 60 scientific databases and tools into a unified AI environment for life sciences researchers, launching in beta on June 30, 2026.
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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