Sanofi Wants AI Agents Doing R&D, Not Just Reading It — Here’s the Five-Year Bet
On June 5, 2026, French drugmaker Sanofi and AI biotech Owkin announced an expanded, multi-year collaboration to build what they...
Month: August 2026
J&J Just Hired an AI to Design Molecules Its Own Chemists Couldn’t Crack
On January 20, 2026, Isomorphic Labs and Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Biotech unit announced a cross-modality, multi-target research collaboration —...
AlphaFold’s Spinoff Just Raised $2.1 Billion to Prove AI Can Actually Design a Drug
Isomorphic Labs, the London-based drug-design company Alphabet spun out of Google DeepMind in 2021, closed a $2.1 billion Series B...
Eli Lilly Just Handed Insilico $2.75 Billion to Let AI Pick Its Next Pills
On March 30, 2026, Eli Lilly and Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine announced a research and licensing agreement worth up to...
In Six Head-to-Head Tests, OpenAI’s Reasoning Model Diagnosed Patients Better Than the Doctors Treating Them
A study published April 30, 2026 in the journal Science, led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel...
Researchers Ran 810 Conversations Through Nine AI Chatbots to See How They Talk Someone Into a Mental Health Crisis
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, University College London, and the UK AI Security Institute published a...
The FDA Just Cleared the First AI That Watches Every Patient’s Vitals for Sepsis Before Anyone Suspects It
On May 12, 2026, Bayesian Health announced that its continuous sepsis-monitoring platform had received FDA 510(k) clearance — the first...
The FDA’s First-Ever AI Warning Letter Landed on a Tiny Herpes Cream Maker, and It Should Scare Every Health-Tech Startup
On April 2, 2026, the FDA sent a warning letter to Purolea Cosmetics Lab, a small homeopathic drug manufacturer in...
An AI Quality Inspector Just Got FDA Clearance to Catch the Blurry Slides Humans Miss 24% of the Time
Leica Biosystems announced on August 11, 2026 that it had secured multiple FDA 510(k) clearances for its digital pathology portfolio,...
Your Biopsy Slide Can Now Predict Its Own Future — FDA Clears First AI Risk Score for Breast Cancer Pathology
On May 6, 2026, Artera received FDA clearance for ArteraAI Breast, a tool the company describes as the first and...
