China Completes First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface Surgery
A Shanghai hospital implanted China's first commercially approved brain-computer interface on July 13, giving a paralyzed patient thought-controlled hand movement.
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Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises $700M, Nears $7B Valuation
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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What Is AI Drug Discovery — and How Does It Work?
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 →AI Drug-Design Startup Chai Discovery Raises $400M Series C
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 →Montefiore Lays Off 12 Nurses, Shifts to AI for Insurance Reviews
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 →What Is Robotic Surgery — and How Autonomous Can It Get?
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 →UC San Diego Humanoid Robots Perform World-First Live Surgery
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 Brain2Qwerty v2 Decodes Brain Signals to Text Without Surgery
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 →What Is AI in Healthcare — and How Is It Changing Medicine?
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 Brain2Qwerty v2 Decodes Brain Signals Into Text Without Surgery
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 Launches Claude Science, an AI Workbench for Researchers
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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