Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech
Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech

The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture, de…

EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report
EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report

EchoPrime, published in Nature in February 2026, outperforms both task-specific AI tools and previous foundation models across 23 cardiac benchmarks, and its code, weights, and a demo are publicly available. An echocardiogram is one of the most common …

French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation
French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation

A decade after becoming the first new independent health insurer in France in 30 years, Alan has closed a €100M round backed by Index Ventures, Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, and World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann, and it’s not slowing down. Alan, the Paris-bas…

Amazon’s Health AI is now open to all US customers
Amazon’s Health AI is now open to all US customers

Three years after its $3.9 billion bet on One Medical, Amazon is deploying its healthcare AI assistant across its main website and shopping app, in a direct challenge to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health and Anthropic’s Claude for Healthcare. Amazon has opened i…

SpendRule raises $2M, emerges from stealth to help hospitals track spending

SpendRule, launched last summer, is an AI-powered platform that helps healthcare systems track their spending.