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.
Sutter Health says an AI platform from Ferrum Health lifted its breast cancer detection rate from 4.8 to more than 6.0 per 1,000 screenings after running on over 35,000 mammograms in Q2 2025, part of a broader wave of AI mammography adoption at Mount Sinai, RadNet and other U.S. health systems.
Aidoc's CARE Body CT Multi-Triage won FDA clearance in January 2026 as the first comprehensive foundation-model AI for broad clinical triage, flagging 14 urgent conditions from one CT scan with 97% mean sensitivity, and Medicare is already paying hospitals up to $137.53 per case to use it.
Novo Nordisk announced September 16, 2026 that it is deploying Anthropic's Claude models and Claude Science research platform across its drug discovery workflows, part of three AI partnerships the company struck within a single 72-hour span.
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.
New 2026 survey data shows consumer preference for human customer service climbing to 85% while trust in AI-run support erodes, with refund disputes emerging as the clearest flashpoint for chatbot failures.
AI voice-cloning scams that fake a family member's emergency call have exploded, with the FTC logging 250,000 complaints in a single quarter of 2026 and fraud investigators urging families to set up private safe words as the most reliable defense.
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.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens in August 2026 with added safety guardrails, arriving as surveys show 54% of US teenagers already use AI chatbots for homework and schools scramble to write policies for a habit that outpaced the rules.
Mass General Brigham researchers led by Chris J. Kennedy showed an AI model can predict U.S. Army veterans' suicide risk up to ten years out using pre-discharge data, a potential leap beyond the VA's existing REACH VET screening tool.