9 best requirements management tools for medical device development (2026)
9 best requirements management tools for medical device development (2026)

Search for requirements management tools for medical device development and you’ll find plenty of content arguing that the established platforms are too heavy for modern teams. Much of it comes from vendors with a stake in that conclusion. In a regulat…

Brain-computer interfaces could create a new digital divide, and this time it may be biological
Brain-computer interfaces could create a new digital divide, and this time it may be biological

As BCIs move from laboratories towards commercial use, Neurochip.com founder Herbert Sim warns that unequal access could separate people not only by income or connectivity, but by physical and cognitive capability. At the 2026 World Artificial Intellig…

Samsung Health Assistant arrives in beta for US users
Samsung Health Assistant arrives in beta for US users

Samsung has started rolling out a beta version of Samsung Health Assistant, which it calls a fully integrated, AI-powered personal health assistant built into the Samsung Health app. According to the company, the feature is live for eligible users in t…

A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.
A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.

Raidium, a Paris and Silicon Valley-based radiology startup, has launched its AI-native imaging platform in the US at Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the country’s leading oncology research institutions. The platform, called Raidium Read, replaced Moffit…

Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.
Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.

A healthcare AI startup has raised fresh funding to push AI agents deeper into hospital operations. Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, HIT Consultant reports. The pitch is a platform, not a produ…

China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind
China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind

Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Mornin…

Meta will alert parents to teens’ self-harm chats with its AI
Meta will alert parents to teens’ self-harm chats with its AI

Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the U…

Google DeepMind launched an AI biosecurity programme to fight biological threats
Google DeepMind launched an AI biosecurity programme to fight biological threats

Google DeepMind has launched a programme to turn AI on biological threats. The London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs call it bioresilience, and set it out in a joint blog post. The aim is twofold. DeepMind wants to stop people misusing its …

AI and a brain implant restored a paralysed man’s movement and touch
AI and a brain implant restored a paralysed man’s movement and touch

Researchers have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to a man paralysed from the chest down. The results, published in Nature Medicine, suggest the technology partly rewired his nervous system. The system, called a “double neural bypass,” com…

Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals

The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, it told Fortune in an exclusive. That …