Corti opens its clinical-AI stack to startups as Europe’s regulatory bill rises
Corti opens its clinical-AI stack to startups as Europe’s regulatory bill rises

The Copenhagen company says its Symphony model has outscored OpenAI on HealthBench Professional, and is offering credits and regulatory help to founders building healthcare AI worldwide. Corti, the Copenhagen-based clinical AI company, has launched a n…

BMS just signed a $15.2 billion drug deal with China’s biggest pharma company. The patent cliff left it no choice.
BMS just signed a $15.2 billion drug deal with China’s biggest pharma company. The patent cliff left it no choice.

  Bristol Myers Squibb has signed a deal worth up to 15.2 billion dollars with Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, China’s largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalisation. The agreement covers 13 early-stage drug programmes across oncology, haematology, …

Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments
Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments

Ditto, an Amsterdam-based health-tech building AI-generated summaries of medical appointments for patients, has raised €7.6m, the company said on Monday. The round is led by Heal Capital with participation from Rubio Impact Ventures. Earlier backer Chr…

Novo Nordisk hands shelved Parkinson’s cell therapy to Zuckerberg-backed Cellular Intelligence
Novo Nordisk hands shelved Parkinson’s cell therapy to Zuckerberg-backed Cellular Intelligence

Novo will take an equity stake in Cellular Intelligence and is in line for future milestone payments and royalties. The startup plans to apply its AI platform to STEM-PD, a stem-cell-derived treatment Novo discontinued last October. Novo Nordisk has ha…

A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.
A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.

A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI, opened a conversation with a chatbot called Emilie, and told it he was feeling depressed. Emilie responded that she was a psychiatrist, that she had attended Imperial College Lond…

Why removing humans from care may undermine outcomes
Why removing humans from care may undermine outcomes

The pitch deck version of digital health goes something like this: AI replaces the clinician, costs drop, access expands, outcomes improve, everyone wins. The pitch has been effective. Venture capital has poured billions into companies built around the…

UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease
UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease

The Belgian pharma is buying a two-year-old San Diego biotech for $2bn upfront, the second TCE bet it has placed in months. The thesis: B-cell killers built for cancer can rewire how autoimmune diseases are treated. Candid Therapeutics is two years old…

The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable
The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable

The company that built TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, the system that predicts with unsettling accuracy what a person wants to watch next, is now using a related class of AI to predict how molecules will behave inside a human body. ByteDance’s drug…

The world’s oldest cord blood bank is building the stem cell platform the field has been missing
The world’s oldest cord blood bank is building the stem cell platform the field has been missing

Most of the umbilical cord blood collected at birth is discarded. The tissue is clamped, cut, and disposed of as medical waste, along with the stem cells it contains, cells that are immunologically naive, genetically diverse, and capable of being repro…

mbiomics raises €30M Series A to take its microbiome cancer co-therapy into clinical trials
mbiomics raises €30M Series A to take its microbiome cancer co-therapy into clinical trials

The Munich techbio company is developing a live bacterial product designed to enhance immune checkpoint inhibitor response in advanced melanoma, with a Phase 1B study planned for 2027 mbiomics GmbH, a Munich-based techbio company developing microbiome-…