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.
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.
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.
Qure.ai’s Chest X-Ray AI Wins Six New FDA Clearances, Taking the Crown in Radiology
Qure.ai's qXR-Detect just won six new FDA clearances for chest X-ray findings, becoming the first such tool cleared with a plan to keep updating its algorithm without a new filing each time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.