Apple's reported acceleration of its smart glasses development, following its CEO transition to a hardware-focused executive, signals a major push into wearable health technology, with the company's V…
Blind Egyptian entrepreneur Mark Morad has launched an AI-assisted app that narrates the visual world for people with vision loss, supporting Arabic and English and processing some tasks on-device. Th…
A new survey of mobile accessibility in 2026 finds that AI is beginning to narrow the accessibility gap, with on-device models in iOS and Android now generating image descriptions and live captions, a…
A blueprint for building AI-driven HR tools that comply with WCAG 2.2, the EU AI Act, and the UK Online Safety Act claims to cut accessibility remediation time by 40% and reduce compliance review cycl…
A study published in Nature Genetics identified 766 genes associated with schizophrenia, including 641 not found in previous transcriptomic analyses, using AI-based computational models to reconstruct…
China has enacted new regulations banning AI chatbots from cultivating emotional dependence, prohibiting virtual romances with minors, and requiring alerts when users show signs of emotional distress,…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said in an interview with The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes that money will not matter in 2036 and that the U.S. Treasury should simply issue check…
A study using BERT, a transformer-based AI model, achieved 97.05% accuracy in multilabel classification of 14,590 Mpox research articles into topics such as outbreaks, vaccination, and epidemiology, a…
AI-generated doctors are flooding TikTok with dangerous medical myths, with 40% of top health-related videos on the platform featuring AI-generated content, according to new research by digital market…
One in six people experience loneliness, contributing to an estimated 871,000 deaths per year, according to the World Health Organization, while the global AI companion market is forecast to reach $43…
Air conditioning will drive far more electricity demand than artificial intelligence over the next decade, adding some 1,400 terawatt-hours by 2035 versus 700 terawatt-hours for data centers, accordin…
WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge warned on 15 July that only 8% of countries in the WHO European Region have a health-specific AI strategy, despite nearly two-thirds deploying AI in diagnos…
Google has contributed its Open Health Stack project code and assets to the Linux Foundation, which will launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation to build open source, AI-ready digital health …
Giving What We Can released its first YouTube video, hosted by Justin Portela, focusing on a 1955 WHO meeting that contributed to malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. The channel aims to introduce ef…
Healthcare AI is deploying disconnected point solutions like chatbots and fall-detection tools without addressing whether the underlying system was designed around people, according to Freddy del Barr…
An 11-year-old boy died from suspected heatstroke in Hong Kong after a 400-meter training run, prompting health experts to warn about the risks of extreme heat. The city recorded its hottest day of th…
The New York Times published a headline stating "Half a million known virus cases" during the Omicron peak, when the US alone exceeded that many cases daily, implying a factor-of-1000 error. The autho…
Level Access announced its digital accessibility platform is now available in the Microsoft Marketplace, enabling customers to discover and deploy the solution with seamless integration across Microso…
Consumer technology is shifting from reactive healthcare to preventive medicine by using wearable sensors and AI to monitor physiological signals continuously. Devices like smartwatches and smart ring…
Clalit Health Services has joined PANDAI, an €8 million EU-funded consortium using AI to predict and manage future pandemics. The project, backed by Horizon Europe and involving the WHO and research g…