A Minnesota federal magistrate judge ordered UnitedHealth to disclose internal records on its nH Predict claims-denial algorithm in the Estate of Gene B. Lokken class action, as Alabama's new law restricting AI-only insurance denials takes effect October 1, 2026.
Oura's new $399 Ring 5 adds blood pressure signals, GLP-1 tracking, and an AI-plus-physician partnership with Counsel Health, as the $11 billion company bets on clinical credibility beyond sleep tracking.
Northwell Health will deploy Abridge's ambient AI documentation platform across all 28 of its hospitals and roughly 20,000 physicians, citing a study showing up to 67% reductions in documentation-related burnout, even as separate research finds AI-generated clinical notes contain errors at a higher rate than physician-written ones.
Labcorp is expanding its collaboration with PathAI to deploy the FDA-cleared AISight Dx digital pathology platform across its national network of anatomic pathology labs, building on a partnership that began in 2019 and follows similar 2026 PathAI rollouts at MedStar Health and University Hospital Zurich.
Amazon won a court order blocking Perplexity's Comet AI browser from making purchases on shoppers' behalf, and Perplexity is now fighting to overturn it in a case that could decide whether retailers can legally lock out rival AI shopping agents.
Amazon's generative-AI assistant Alexa+ has gone nationwide in the US and expanded to India, with the company reporting nearly 50% higher smart home engagement among upgraders even as privacy advocates question how much household data the more conversational assistant now collects.
Johnson & Johnson won FDA De Novo authorization for its AI-assisted OTTAVA robotic surgical system on July 22, 2026, giving Intuitive Surgical's long-dominant da Vinci platform its first serious multi-competitor challenge in soft tissue robotics in two decades.
Insilico Medicine published an open-source AI toolkit for aging research in Cell on September 17, 2026, with Liquid AI, the Buck Institute, and Harvard Medical School, nominating 328 candidate longevity gene targets.
Meta's new Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 AI glasses, unveiled September 23, 2026, have become a genuine lifeline for many blind and low-vision users, but critics argue the company is leaning on disabled users' enthusiasm while dodging accessibility accountability.
As wildfire smoke triggered fresh air quality advisories across the Bay Area in September 2026, researchers are testing AI models that combine wearable health data with pollution readings to predict how smoke affects each person differently.