Google and Beast Industries, the company behind YouTube creator Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, announced a multi-year partnership on September 2 to integrate Gemini AI into content production, starting wi…
A developer demonstrates how to use Microsoft's DoWhy library and CausalML to analyze health habits with causal inference, moving beyond correlation to isolate the true effect of caffeine on sleep qua…
Michael Snyder, Director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University, advocates for using wearable devices to track health continuously rather than waiting for disease,…
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman launched Luffu Link, an LTE-enabled health and safety band priced at $250, available for preorder and expected to ship in early 2027. The device combine…
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman have launched Luffu Link, a screenless wearable with GPS, free LTE, and voice logging, available for preorder at $250 (discounted from $300) and shippin…
Luffu, the AI-powered family care system founded by Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman, announced the Luffu Link, a screenless health and safety wearable available for preorder in the US …
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman launched Luffu, a screenless wearable tracker aimed at helping families monitor aging parents, with the $300 Luffu Link device available for $250 preord…
Google may have accidentally leaked images of an unannounced Fitbit or Pixel-branded wearable in YouTube ads for the Pixel 11 series, spotted by Reddit users and reported by 9to5Google. The device fea…
Google Research published a first-of-its-kind national-scale study (n=13,917) showing that a conversational AI agent powered by Gemini Flash 2.0 can conduct end-to-end symptom interviews and different…
Apple, Google, and Empirical Health have developed wearable foundation models (WFMs) — neural networks pretrained on unlabeled sensor data from devices like Apple Watch and Fitbit — that can be adapte…
Google Research's SensorFM, a foundation model trained on over a trillion minutes of Fitbit and Pixel Watch data from five million users, beats existing benchmarks on 34 of 35 health and behavioral ta…
Google Research's SensorFM, a foundation model trained on over a trillion minutes of wearable data from five million Fitbit and Pixel Watch users, outperforms existing benchmarks on 34 of 35 health an…
TalkFitly, a new fitness app leveraging conversational AI for personalized coaching, launched on Apple's App Store but has yet to gain traction. The app faces stiff competition from established player…
Google Research introduced SensorFM on July 9, 2026, a foundation model pre-trained on over one trillion minutes of de-identified wearable sensor data from five million participants. The model, which …
Google Research introduced SensorFM on July 9th, a wearable health foundation model trained on over one trillion minutes of sensor data from five million consented Fitbit and Pixel Watch users. The mo…
An open-source CLI tool called ghealth wraps the Google Health API v4, exposing 40 verified data types such as sleep, heart rate, and steps as structured JSON for use in terminals and AI agents. The t…
Amazon Prime Day offers the Fitbit Versa 4 fitness smartwatch at 36% off, reducing the price to an undisclosed amount. The deal includes a 3-month Google Health Premium membership and features GPS, he…
Kimba, a new sleep technology company, launched a clinically validated, AI-powered device that tracks health metrics and releases personalized scents to improve sleep quality. The device, available fo…
Google's Wear OS 7 update introduces battery improvements, Live Updates, and cross-device controls, positioning smartwatches as hubs for AI-powered features like Gemini integration and a new Fitbit AI…
Google is scrambling to fix widespread bugs and user complaints after replacing the Fitbit app with its new AI-heavy Google Health app, which has been plagued by inaccurate data, mislabeled workouts, …