There will come soft pings, and every one of them will have notes

Smart rings, glasses, earbuds, and glucose patches are turning ordinary life into a stream of nudges, warnings, and tiny corrections.

Two AIs just matched or beat doctors on diagnosis. The catch: none of the patients were real.
Two AIs just matched or beat doctors on diagnosis. The catch: none of the patients were real.

Two AI systems have matched, and in places beaten, doctors at diagnosing patients and planning their treatment. Then again, none of the patients were real. The results, published in Nature this week, are some of the strongest evidence yet that speciali…

An ex-Palantir leader raised $16M to point AI at the NHS’s paperwork, not its doctors
An ex-Palantir leader raised $16M to point AI at the NHS’s paperwork, not its doctors

Almost every AI tool aimed at the NHS is built for clinicians. Frontier Health raised $16M to build for the people behind them. The London startup announced a $16M seed round led by Atomico, with firstminute capital and XYZ Venture Capital also taking …

Midjourney says its new full-body scanner beats an MRI. It has never built hardware before.
Midjourney says its new full-body scanner beats an MRI. It has never built hardware before.

Midjourney, the company best known for turning text prompts into images, has announced something it has never made before: hardware. And not a phone case or a pair of glasses, but a full-body medical scanner. At an event in San Francisco on June 17, fo…

A Colombian AI startup wants to assist half of Latin America’s doctors. Andreessen Horowitz just backed it.
A Colombian AI startup wants to assist half of Latin America’s doctors. Andreessen Horowitz just backed it.

Telepatia, an AI clinical assistant built for Latin American healthcare, has raised $33 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company wants to reach half of the region’s 1.9 million doctors by the end of 2027. Total funding is now $42 m…

Neuralink finally has a real rival: Paradromics just put a brain chip in its first patient
Neuralink finally has a real rival: Paradromics just put a brain chip in its first patient

Neuralink has dominated the brain-chip story for two years. It now has a serious challenger with a patient of its own. Paradromics, an Austin neurotech firm, has implanted its Connexus brain-computer interface in the first participant of its FDA-approv…

Everlab raises AU$65m to turn primary care from treatment to prevention
Everlab raises AU$65m to turn primary care from treatment to prevention

The Melbourne healthtech’s oversubscribed Series A, led by Airtree, funds a move into the UK and a pitch to coordinate a patient’s health data over a lifetime rather than a single appointment. Most healthcare systems are built to wait. They are organis…

Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America
Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America

Meta is giving free Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America. Mark Zuckerberg announced the programme on Friday, offering a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, at no cost, to all legally blind US veterans. “Meta AI on these glasses can describe what…

Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team
Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team

Thena Capital has closed its first fund at £45m ($60.4m), the London venture firm announced this week, after a £27m first close in March 2025. The fund backs early-stage British medical-technology companies, and it is now fully closed. The milestone is…

01Health raises £11.2M to turn its dental-AI platform into infrastructure for specialist care
01Health raises £11.2M to turn its dental-AI platform into infrastructure for specialist care

01Health, a London healthtech company, has raised £11.2M ($15M) in Series A funding to open up the clinical platform behind its dental brands and sell it to other practices. The round was led by Gresham House Ventures. Existing backers Balderton Capita…