On August 13th, Samuel Gold and Alexander Risio launched Risklytics, a San Francisco commercial insurance brokerage for companies deploying AI agents and autonomous systems, with backing from Y Combin…
Researchers at Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Mass General Brigham have developed an AI tool called Aladynoulli that estimates a person's risk of developing 348 diseases by …
A Harvard Medical School study led by Hao Yu, associate professor of population medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, found that AI chatbot use for mental health advice among U.S. adol…
Three new studies published in Mindfulness, Scientific Reports, and the Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders show that group-based mindfulness and compassion programs alter brain activity patterns an…
A 2025 study published in the International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology found that people with deeper nasal cavities used the SONU Band acoustic therapy device 42% more often than matched controls, s…
YC-backed Prescience launched on July 21st, claiming its AI-managed health benefits platform can cut employer premiums by roughly 20% while offering $0-deductible plans. Founded by brothers Aditya Jai…
Hospitals are deploying AI-based intimate partner violence (IPV) screening tools that analyze electronic health records without patients' knowledge, raising governance and consent concerns. A 2026 NIH…
Astromech, a startup founded in 2025 by Ben Lamm and George Church, develops a Large Life Model and autonomous biological intelligence system that fuses evolutionary logic with deep learning to decode…
Infera, an AI-native laboratory operating system startup founded in 2026 and backed by Y Combinator, converts natural language experiment descriptions into validated protocols, material orders, instru…
The human genome's complexity, with only 2% consisting of genes and the rest involved in intricate regulation, may resist full understanding by artificial intelligence. Genomic AI models like Evo 2 an…
Scientists at Harvard Medical School discovered that the stress hormone cortisol helps lock in early neural connections by signaling astrocytes to close critical periods of brain plasticity. The study…
A landmark study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, published in Science, found that OpenAI's o1 series matched or exceeded physician performance across six clinical…
Researchers at NVIDIA and Harvard Medical School used federated learning to predict clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients, enabling collaborative model training across institutions without sharing se…
A large international research team led by Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published the first complete map of every neural connection in an adult fruit fly's central nervous syste…
OpenAI has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering, targeting a valuation of up to $1 trillion and a potential listing as early as September. The move follows similar IPO filings from ri…
Researchers from the University of Utah, University of Illinois Chicago, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Pittsburgh have developed a smartwatch-inspired wearable that measures continuous…