7 verified briefings on Health Tech. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek's new startup, Neko Health, uses full-body scans for preventative healthcare. It's part of a major new trend where investors are betting heavily on data-driven health tech to predict and prevent disease.
AI hearing aid startup Fortell raised $163 million from top investors like Founders Fund and Thrive Capital. The company aims to build devices that are more desirable and effective, challenging the current hearing aid monopoly.
AI hearing aid startup Fortell raised $163 million from top investors like Founders Fund and Thrive Capital. The funding signals a major bet on using AI to solve usability problems and make traditional medical devices more desirable.
inclusionAI has released Ling 3.0 Flash Sante, a powerful AI model specialized for medicine, on Vercel's AI Gateway. It features a large memory and is designed for complex healthcare reasoning, with a free trial available until October 4.
Microsoft Research released new AI models for pathology that are smaller and more efficient. This makes large-scale disease research faster and more affordable, opening it up to more organizations without sacrificing performance.
Oura's new Ring 5 is confirmed to be smaller than its predecessors, including the Gen 3 and Ring 4 models. While a full review is still forthcoming to test durability, battery life, and new software features, this initial observation answers a key question about the device's updated physical design.
Oura has confirmed it receives government requests for user data. The company has not yet released a transparency report detailing the number or nature of these requests, raising questions about its policies on user privacy and law enforcement cooperation.