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Nvidia Wants to Train Hospital Robots in a Simulated Hospital Before They Ever Touch a Patient
Nvidia unveiled a healthcare robotics platform, including a hospital digital-twin blueprint called Rheo, designed to train clinical robots in simulation before they ever touch a real patient.
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A Single Phishing Email at an AI Vendor Exposed 1.4 Million Patient Records From Eight Health Systems
A phishing attack on AI utilization-management vendor Xsolis exposed the medical and personal data of 1.4 million patients across eight U.S. health systems, including Mayo Clinic and UW Medicine.
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AI-Designed Lung Drug Rentosertib Enters Phase III, a First for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Insilico Medicine has begun a Phase III trial of rentosertib, an AI-designed drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, marking the first AI-discovered therapy for the disease to reach late-stage testing.
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Five States Now Bar AI Chatbots From Practicing Therapy, and More Are Writing the Rules
Illinois, Nevada, Rhode Island and Maine now ban AI chatbots from practicing therapy outright, while Utah, California and Colorado are instead forcing chatbots to disclose they're not human — a patchwork that's reshaping how AI mental-health apps operate state by state.
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After a Decade of Delays, Johnson & Johnson’s Ottava Surgical Robot Finally Wins FDA Approval
Johnson & Johnson's Ottava surgical robot finally won FDA authorization in July 2026 after more than a decade of delays, entering a soft-tissue robotic surgery market suddenly crowded with new AI-guided rivals.
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Eli Lilly Fires Up World’s Most Powerful Pharma Supercomputer to Hunt for New Drugs
Eli Lilly has switched on LillyPod, a 1,016-GPU NVIDIA supercomputer delivering over 9,000 petaflops — a bet that owning frontier-scale AI compute is now essential to compete in drug discovery.
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Schrodinger Spins Off a New Biotech Built Entirely Around Its AI Drug-Design Software
Schrodinger has co-founded Tectora Therapeutics, a $55 million Series A-backed biotech built to develop two of its own AI-designed drug candidates for immunology and inflammation.
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Google’s Mammography AI Beats Human Readers in Largest NHS Breast Cancer Trial Yet
A Nature Cancer study spanning over 125,000 mammograms found Google's AI outperformed human radiologists on sensitivity while matching them on specificity — the largest NHS test yet of AI in breast cancer screening.
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First Health Systems Earn URAC’s New AI Accreditation, Setting a National Bar for ‘Responsible AI’
Guidehealth, RediMinds and SandsRx are the first organizations to earn URAC's new Health Care AI Accreditation, a voluntary credential meant to fill the gap regulators haven't closed.
