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Novo Nordisk Bets on AWS and Agentic AI to Cut Years Off Drug Discovery
Novo Nordisk has named AWS its preferred cloud and AI partner and opened a co-innovation hub in London, using tools like Amazon Bio Discovery and Bedrock to try to compress the path from drug target to first human dose, part of a broader wave of pharma-hyperscaler AI deals.
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Oracle’s New AI Patient Portal Explains Your Cholesterol Trends in Plain English
Oracle Health's AI-powered patient portal, now generally available across the US, lets patients ask plain-language questions about labs, medications and diabetes management directly from their EHR, with citations and highlighting meant to keep AI answers traceable rather than opaque.
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OpenAI Foundation Commits $125 Million to Fix AI’s Biggest Health Data Gap
The OpenAI Foundation is putting $125 million into Public Data for Health, funding open scientific datasets at UNC's cancer center, OpenADMET and CTD Commons in a bet that better biological data, not just bigger models, is the real bottleneck for AI in medicine.
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OpenEvidence Rolls Out a Family of Medical AI Models, Keeps Its Perfect-MedQA-Score Model Under Wraps
OpenEvidence, used daily by more than 40% of U.S. physicians, split its clinical AI chatbot into three named models for speed and depth while holding back a fourth, Darwin, which it says scored perfectly on the MedQA benchmark, citing dual-use safety risks.
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Elucid Raises $55 Million to Push AI Heart-Plaque Imaging Into Mainstream Cardiology
Elucid closed a $55 million Series D on September 2, 2026, bringing total funding to about $185 million to expand its FDA-cleared Plaque-IQ AI, which reads coronary CT scans to classify dangerous heart plaque, plus a new FFR-CT tool awaiting FDA review.
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FDA Lets Four AI Health Tools Skip Pre-Market Approval to Reach Medicare Patients First
The FDA's new TEMPO pilot lets four generative-AI health tools, from SonderMind, Limbic, Cadence and Dexcom, reach Medicare patients before they receive full marketing authorization, trading pre-market review for real-world outcomes data on chronic conditions like depression, hypertension and prediabetes.
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Google and Character.AI Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Deaths Linked to Chatbot Relationships
Google and Character.AI settled five lawsuits, including the Sewell Setzer III wrongful-death case, alleging AI companion chatbots contributed to harm and death among teenagers.
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MyFitnessPal’s New AI Nutrition Coach Arrives as Study Finds Calorie-Photo Apps Are Often Wrong by 345 Calories
MyFitnessPal launched an AI Nutrition Coach built on its Cal AI acquisition, just as a NUTRITION 2026 study found AI calorie-photo apps average a 345-calorie estimation error.
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Apple Shelves AI Health Coach, Still Ships AI That Listens for Your Snoring
Apple delayed its AI health coach, Project Mulberry, at WWDC 2026 but is shipping AI sleep-sound detection and an Apple Watch Series 12 with 5-second heart-rate sampling.
