A $93 Million AI Therapist Just Got Kicked Out of Britain. Ash’s Exit Exposes a Global Regulatory Void.
On January 23, 2026, hundreds of thousands of British users of the AI therapy app Ash opened it to find...
Month: August 2026
Dartmouth’s Therabot Was Built Not to Be Loved: Inside the First AI Chatbot With a Published Clinical Trial
When Michael Heinz talks about the AI mental health chatbot he helped build at Dartmouth, he starts with what it...
This Nonprofit Uses AI to Match 4,000 Old Drugs Against 18,000 Diseases — And Cut a 100-Day Search to 17 Hours
Every Cure, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit, runs an AI system every month that scores roughly 4,000 existing, already-approved drugs against more...
An AI Alarm That Checks Every 15 Minutes Cut In-Hospital Deaths by 18% Across 11 New Jersey Hospitals
A study of 23,132 high-risk patients across 11 hospitals in the RWJBarnabas Health system found that an AI-driven early warning...
Aidoc’s AI Now Drafts the Chest X-Ray Report Itself — FDA Grants It Breakthrough Status Despite Generative AI’s Risks
The FDA has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to First Read, an AI tool built by Aidoc that reads chest X-rays...
Cameras Are Watching the Operating Room Now: Startup Opens Its 3D AI ‘Black Box’ to Hospitals Nationwide
A startup called VitVio has opened general access to Vetro, a 3D computer-vision platform that turns every operating room it's...
NHS Trusts Cut Scan Wait Times With AI Software After Nine-Site Radiology Rollout
Patients across North East England and South Yorkshire are getting their X-ray and ultrasound results back faster after NHS England...
Nvidia’s Surgical-Robot AI Model Just Went Commercial, Trained on 778 Hours of Real Operating Room Footage
Nvidia's push to bring foundation-model AI into the operating room has reached a new stage: GR00T-H-N1.7, a healthcare-specific version of...
Mayo Clinic’s AI Spotted Pancreatic Cancer in Scans Doctors Had Already Called Normal — Up to Three Years Early
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest common cancers largely because it hides in plain sight until it's too late...
Roche Bets $1.05 Billion That AI Reading Tissue Slides Beats Human Pathologists Alone
Roche announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston-based digital pathology company PathAI in a deal worth up to $1.05 billion,...
