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The authors developed and tested AMHART, a clinician-informed tool to evaluate AI chatbot responses to adolescents disclosing anxiety or depression. Applied to four widely used chatbots, it showed greater coverage for anxiety than depression and for moderate than severe presentations. It also identified gaps in coping guidance.
Read the original →The AI sector has seen an unprecedented wave of wealth creation in recent years. Employees and founders at promising companies, sometimes not yet 40, have become wealthy.
Read the original →A new reinforcement learning framework called RL-MindFlow combines multimodal emotion perception with a PID-controlled safety mechanism. It reports higher emotion recognition accuracy and safer responses.
Read the original →Brilliant Labs is adding persistent AI memory and adaptive gaming to its Halo smartglasses. The $399 wearable is positioned as a way to ask questions, create small applications and turn everyday experiences into an evolving record.
Read the original →A new multimodal transformer framework detects REM sleep behavior disorder with an AUC of 0.95 while running in 28 milliseconds. It uses signal-quality gating and dynamic compression to stay robust.
Read the original →EnsoData's EnsoSleep is the first AI software to earn full autoscoring certification from the AASM. The certification validates performance across four sleep domains.
Read the original →About 12 months ago, in a Year 11 English class at Marist College, 17-year-olds Ashton Ryan and Zavier D’Arcy began thinking about how they could develop a business.
Read the original →AI tools may support skin monitoring and help track changing moles, but they cannot diagnose skin cancer. Experts recommend ABCDE checks and prompt medical evaluation of concerning lesions.
Read the original →A systematic review of 32 peer-reviewed studies finds that AI and IoT technologies show promise for COPD detection, exacerbation prediction and monitoring. The review notes limitations including small single-center datasets.
Read the original →ScionxBio licenses its xRNA TERA platform to Sanofi. The platform targets chronic protein-deficiency diseases with AI-engineered mRNA that lasts weeks, not days.
Read the original →AdvaMed encouraged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to build on its existing regulatory framework for generative AI-enabled medical devices rather than create new frameworks. The comments respond to an FDA discussion paper (Docket No. FDA-2026-N-7874) seeking early input on assessing risks and evaluating such devices before marketing and in post-market monitoring.
Read the original →Vera Health has raised $28.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Threshold Ventures, with participation from Optum Ventures, Mantis VC, and SV Angel. The company plans to use the funding to expand its evidence-based clinical AI search platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and support international growth.
Read the original →The parents of a Chinese national with epilepsy who died earlier this year sued OpenAI on Tuesday in California state court. They allege ChatGPT was effectively practicing medicine without a license when it designed a tapering schedule for the anti-seizure medication that was keeping their daughter alive.
Read the original →Eighty-one 911 telecommunicators from across Texas are in Amarillo for two and a half days of training. The training covers emergency communications, workplace skills and new technology.
Read the original →Bumble's $1.3 billion sale marks a sharp decline from its roughly $14 billion valuation five years ago, as dating app burnout grows. Online dating industry analyst Mark Brooks, CEO of Courtland Brooks, told DW News the industry has struggled since COVID as people return to meeting offline.
Read the original →LY Corporation has begun offering a meal management agent in its AI agent Agent i, which records meals, analyzes nutrition and gives advice on eating habits. It can be used within Agent i. Linking it to a dedicated LINE official account also lets users record and manage meals from a LINE chat room.
Read the original →Samsung Electronics is strengthening the sleep apnea feature on its Galaxy wearables. Moving beyond the earlier method of signaling whether an abnormality exists, it will show in three levels how frequently breathing disturbances occur during sleep.
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