Eight Sleep Hits $1.5 Billion Valuation, Bets on AI That Predicts Your Night Before It Starts
Eight Sleep, maker of the temperature-controlled Pod smart mattress cover, has raised a new funding round led by Tether Investments...
Year: 2026
Noom Leans Harder Into AI as Photo and Voice Food Logging Go Mainstream
Noom, the psychology-based weight-loss app that built its reputation on cognitive-behavioral coaching rather than calorie math, has spent 2026 expanding...
Apple Delays Its AI Health Coach, Betting Reliable Data Beats a Flashy Feature
At its Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2026, Apple shipped a redesigned Health app and improved sleep tracking in watchOS...
Samsung Turns Galaxy Watch Into an ‘AI Health Companion’ With New Vitals Score
Samsung began rolling out a major Samsung Health app update on June 8, 2026, reframing the Galaxy Watch as what...
Oura Ring 5 Shrinks the Hardware, Adds AI-Powered Meal and Blood Pressure Insights
Oura, the smart-ring maker that helped popularize sleep-and-recovery tracking, launched its fifth-generation ring in late May 2026 alongside a wave...
Whoop Adds AI Coach That Remembers Your Life, Plus On-Demand Doctor Visits
Whoop, the subscription fitness-tracking wearable long favored by athletes and biohackers, has rolled out a set of AI-driven updates that...
Viz.ai Data Shows 44% Faster Stroke Transfers as AI Cuts Care-Team Alerts From 45 Minutes to 7
When someone suffers a large vessel occlusion stroke, the clock matters more than almost anything else in medicine, since every...
Boston Startup Cellens Raises $6.5M for AI Test That ‘Feels’ Bladder Cancer Cells to Find Recurrence
Most cancer diagnostics look for a molecular signature, a genetic mutation or a protein marker. Boston-based startup Cellens is trying...
Helsinki AI Pathology Firm Aiforia Lands €20 Million to Scale Up Cancer Detection Software
Finnish digital pathology company Aiforia has secured €20 million in venture debt financing from the European Investment Bank, backed by...
Sanofi Expands AI Bet With Owkin, Handing Its Drug Research to Autonomous AI Agents
Pharmaceutical research has relied on AI for pattern recognition and prediction for years, but Sanofi's latest move with French-American AI...
