Withings’ ‘Thermometer of the Future’ Is Getting an AI Analysis Upgrade

The BeamO thermometer has a new AI feature that analyzes the device’s heart and lung recordings.

The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. Calling it a platform would have handed OpenAI a liability shield.
The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. Calling it a platform would have handed OpenAI a liability shield.

The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global revenue but covering only the parts of the tool that retrieve rather than converse. The article’…

Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone
Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone

A Berlin company has won the world’s first regulatory clearance for AI that closes a breast screening case. No radiologist looks at it. Vara, which trades as MX Healthcare GmbH, announced the certification on Wednesday in a statement issued through Bus…

Oura’s Menopause Impact Scale Expands Out of the App and Into Women’s Health Care

The creator of the Oura Ring is partnering with women’s health companies in the name of menopause.

Dyson has built a toothbrush with a camera in it, for $499
Dyson has built a toothbrush with a camera in it, for $499

Dyson has put a camera inside a toothbrush. The CameraJet went on sale Tuesday for $499, combining a 100,000-pixel macro camera in the brush head with a small jet that sprays mouthrinse between the teeth. The company says it has spent six years develop…

An AI reads an ECG in two seconds and finds what cardiologists cannot
An AI reads an ECG in two seconds and finds what cardiologists cannot

An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI system that can read one in under two seconds and identify signs of heart failure and valve disease that clinicians cannot detect from…

London surgeons remove brain tumour in first AI-assisted operation of its kind
London surgeons remove brain tumour in first AI-assisted operation of its kind

Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what University College London Hospitals says is the world’s first successful AI-assisted operation of its kind. The system analysed live camera f…

MindRank’s oral GLP-1 is the furthest along any AI-native drug programme
MindRank’s oral GLP-1 is the furthest along any AI-native drug programme

MindRank, a Hangzhou drug developer built around AI, says its lead candidate went from programme initiation to Phase III trials in roughly four and a half years on about $23mn of cumulative research spending. If that holds up, it is the most concrete a…

A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026
A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026

One minute and 49 seconds, that was the median time a machine needed to read a patient’s arm, choose a vein, insert a needle, fill the tubes, and withdraw, across the Dutch clinical trial that carried it towards regulators. A phlebotomist working caref…

Phonak’s new EON hearing aids run two AI systems on a chip built to sip power
Phonak’s new EON hearing aids run two AI systems on a chip built to sip power

Phonak has launched EON, a hearing aid platform built around a newly developed processor the company calls HYPERSONIC, which it says runs two artificial intelligence systems in parallel while drawing 37% less power than the generation before it. The So…