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Making AI more culturally fluent could help people feel understood. But feeling understood and receiving safe mental-health guidance are not the same thing.
Read the original →A new deep learning framework quantifies anxiety-related physiological arousal from wearable biosignals in continuous time. It also generates interpretable, constraint-based emotional regulation suggestions.
Read the original →Norway is moving to temporarily ban AI-powered smart glasses in a range of public spaces, as concerns grow across Europe over devices that can photograph, film and record people without their knowledge. The Norwegian government said on Monday that it plans to bring legislation before parliament as quickly as possible.
Read the original →OpenAI has scrapped the launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after safety tests raised concerns.
Read the original →A causal machine learning framework was applied to seven community-based childhood obesity prevention programs involving over 7,000 children. It found that intervention effects vary dramatically by age.
Read the original →The UK will introduce continuous monitoring of AI-based medical devices after approval, under a new regulatory framework intended to improve patient safety. The initiative is backed by 44 recommendations from a recent report, which aims to set delivery targets by 2027.
Read the original →The UK has accepted all 44 AI regulation recommendations. The MHRA has opened applications for the third phase of its AI Airlock.
Read the original →AI is moving deeper into UAE healthcare, from detecting prostate cancer to predicting dementia. Hospitals now face the harder challenge of proving it can work reliably at scale.
Read the original →South Korea faces a projected shortage of nearly 1 million care workers in the coming decades. It plans to use robots and artificial intelligence monitoring systems in response.
Read the original →A machine learning analysis of more than 8,400 Canadian adults with MASLD shows that mortality risk predictors differ sharply by sex. Social factors such as income and education matter most for one group.
Read the original →UltraSight will use the proceeds of its recent $24m Series B2 financing to expand access to cardiac imaging without specialized sonographers in more critical care units and use cases. CEO Davidi Vortman told Medtech Insight.
Read the original →Welmo issued a press release on October 6, 2026, at 10:00 announcing that it is moving its headquarters to Tenjin Business Center II, a new landmark in Tenjin, Fukuoka.
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