AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials
AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials

AstraZeneca and Oracle will use AI and real patient health data to find people for drug trials faster, the two firms announced. The deal adds to a long list of AI health tie-ups between drugmakers and tech companies. The pair signed a non-binding term …

Biotech now sells pet cloning and cryonics, MIT Technology Review finds
Biotech now sells pet cloning and cryonics, MIT Technology Review finds

Pet owners who cannot face losing an animal now have a growing menu of biotech options. They range from longevity drugs to cloning and cryonics. MIT Technology Review laid out the options this week, and questioned whether some of them are wise. Pills f…

Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports
Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports

Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington, founder and chief executive of Thrive Global. It was mad…

Google invests in period tracker Flo and plans women’s health wearables
Google invests in period tracker Flo and plans women’s health wearables

Google has taken a stake in Flo Health, the period-tracking app, the companies said on Monday. The multi-year deal will bring women’s health data into Google’s wearables and coaching. They did not disclose the size of the investment. From early 2027, u…

Google launches $180 Fitbit Edge with a bigger screen and AI coach
Google launches $180 Fitbit Edge with a bigger screen and AI coach

Google has launched the Fitbit Edge, a $179.99 fitness tracker that sits between its screenless Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5, the company said on Monday. It is on pre-order now and reaches shops on 27 October. A Stephen Curry special edition costs …

Smart Contact Lenses May Arrive as Soon as 2030. Here’s What They Do

Could they be the next “eye” phone? I spoke with the founders of Xpanceo to find out.

Nvidia commits $1bn to US science over the next five years
Nvidia commits $1bn to US science over the next five years

Quantum computing, healthcare and energy security are the fields Nvidia wants to strengthen with commitments it values at $1 billion. The money will be spread over the next five years. The company announced the commitments on Thursday at the Science: A…

NHS South East rolls out skin cancer AI that can discharge patients alone
NHS South East rolls out skin cancer AI that can discharge patients alone

NHS England’s South East region is rolling out an AI that can discharge patients with harmless skin lesions without a dermatologist seeing them. DERM, made by London-based Skin Analytics, goes live in all 18 NHS trusts there from this autumn. It will c…

Biohub, Meta, Google DeepMind and the US pool $1.8bn for AI biology data
Biohub, Meta, Google DeepMind and the US pool $1.8bn for AI biology data

Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI models that predict how cells behave. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are joining with $300M between them, Biohub announced on …

Rivercell raises $25M to build an AI model of how cells respond to drugs
Rivercell raises $25M to build an AI model of how cells respond to drugs

Paris start-up Rivercell has raised a $25M seed round to build an AI model that predicts how human cells respond to drugs and genetic changes. HV led the round, with HCVC, Alven and Bpifrance Digital Venture taking part, the company said on Wednesday. …