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Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance

Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip built for AI agents, and new platforms for smart glasses. Ziad Asghar, who runs Qualcomm’s XR, wearables and personal AI business, […]

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Meta unveils $1,299 VR glasses and turns its AI glasses into hearing aids

Meta will sell VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams for $1,299.99 from spring 2027. It is also turning its AI glasses into over-the-counter hearing aids. Mark Zuckerberg announced both at Meta Connect on Wednesday. He also showed new Ray-Ban glasses and a keychain device for Muse, Meta’s personal AI agent. He framed the whole […]

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Anthropic and OpenEvidence to offer free medical AI to doctors in about 100 countries

OpenEvidence, an AI tool used by American doctors, is now being offered in countries with limited access to medical literature. Reuters reported that the company is working with Anthropic to give clinicians in low- and middle-income countries free access to a specialized version of its platform. The initiative is being introduced in around 100 countries, […]

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Biolevate raises €30M Series A and opens Boston office for its life sciences AI

The Paris-based company Biolevate, which develops AI automation for use in regulated life sciences, has raised €30m in its Series A funding and has opened an office in Boston. Orange Ventures and RAISE France co-led the fundraising exercise, with the company stating that RAISE France is the investment arm of Aymar Hénin, a French entrepreneur. […]

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Novo will test Anthropic’s Claude Science to speed up drug discovery

“Joining forces with Anthropic will supercharge our R&D organisation and help us on our mission to bring new, transformative health solutions to people living with chronic diseases,” said Mike Doustdar, president and chief executive of Novo. The Danish drugmaker, formerly branded Novo Nordisk, and Anthropic announced a collaboration on 16 September, according to Novo’s announcement. […]

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ByteDance’s AI drug unit Anew Labs raises $290M at $1.5B valuation, Reuters reports

ByteDance closed a $290M funding round for Anew Labs, its newly spun-off AI drug discovery unit, at a $1.5B valuation, Reuters reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Moreover, the company that owns TikTok will retain 56% of the business after this round, according to the same sources.  According to the same reporting, HSG, […]

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Tandem Health raises $100m to turn its AI scribe into clinic software

Stockholm-based Tandem Health has raised $100m in a Series B round led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, which EQT manages. The company announced the round on 14 September. Existing investors Kinnevik, Northzone, Amino Collective, and Visionaries also took part. Tandem said the deal is the fund’s first investment in healthcare. The round follows a $50m […]

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The data storage crisis has a biological fix. It starts by making less DNA, not more.

The math behind the data storage problem is brutal. The world creates more information every year than it can afford to keep. Most of it is cold. It is almost never read, yet it cannot be deleted, so it accumulates on tape and disk that degrade, draw power, and demand replacement every few years. The cost compounds. It […]

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Health minister says mistrust of Palantir is pushing NHS patients to opt out of data sharing

The UK minister responsible for health innovation has told MPs that public mistrust of Palantir is making patients less willing to hand their medical records to the NHS, and that the number of people formally opting out of data sharing has risen by roughly 60,000 over four months. The admission sits in a letter from […]

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Insilico says its AI-designed lung drug lowered biological age markers in a 42-patient trial

Blood samples from a small lung-disease trial have been run through six independently built ageing clocks, and all six returned the same answer: the patients on the drug looked biologically younger than the patients on placebo. “More lifetimes than humanity lost in all the wars ever fought. If you manage to add 3 years to […]

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