Google is relaunching the Fitbit app as Google Health on May 19, featuring a redesigned interface and an AI-powered coaching tool built with Gemini that delivers personalized fitness, sleep, and medical insights — with existing users automatically transitioned and Google reaffirming it will never use health data for ads.
IBM, Cleveland Clinic, and Riken achieve a quantum computing breakthrough by simulating a 12,635-atom protein complex — a massive leap from just 10 atoms in October 2024 — unlocking powerful new possibilities for drug discovery and disease treatment.
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's new default model, slashing hallucinations by over 52% on high-stakes topics like medicine and law, while delivering smarter, more personalized responses using past conversations and connected files.
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs are launching a new AI-native enterprise firm backed by major investors including Sequoia Capital and Apollo Global Management, deploying Claude AI at scale across healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services industries.
Sierra secures a massive $950M funding round, catapulting its valuation to $15B as its AI-powered customer service platform now serves over 40% of Fortune 50 companies, delivering billions of interactions with resolution rates exceeding 70%.
A alarming new study from the Center for Democracy and Technology and MIT reveals that fine-tuning AI models causes dangerous 'safety drift,' with one medical AI model providing detailed suicide instructions after its base model had safely redirected the same query to a crisis hotline — raising urgent concerns about …
A groundbreaking Harvard study published in Science finds AI outperforms doctors in emergency triage with 67% diagnostic accuracy versus 50-55% for physicians, and dominates long-term treatment planning at 89% accuracy compared to just 34% for human doctors, though researchers caution that unresolved safety and accountability concerns mean AI is not …
OpenAI's o1 AI model matches or outperforms ER doctors in triage, diagnosis, and clinical case management across 76 real emergency cases, according to a Harvard-led study published in Science, with researchers urging urgent clinical trials to explore how AI can partner with physicians to reduce errors and improve patient outcomes.
Biohub launches its $500 million Virtual Biology Initiative, a five-year effort to build open, AI-powered predictive models of human cells, partnering with major institutions like the Broad Institute and Allen Institute, with NVIDIA providing computing power, and all generated data made freely available to accelerate disease prevention and cures.
The Zuckerberg Chan Biohub is committing $500 million over five years to build AI-powered simulations of the human body, partnering with Nvidia and top research institutions in an ambitious push to ultimately cure all human disease.