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J&J hits $25.3bn Q2 sales, eyes $100bn milestone; Eli Lilly bets $3.8bn on psychedelics

Johnson & Johnson reported Q2 2026 sales of US$25.3bn, up 6.6%, and raised its full-year guidance to US$101.1b…

Top Companies AIJul 25, 2026

Intuitive Surgical unveils five-layer AI framework, demos live telesurgery

Intuitive Surgical revealed a five-layer AI framework for its surgical platforms and demonstrated a live real-…

Top Companies AIJul 24, 2026

Merck KGaA's AI Chief: Models Aren't the Advantage—Context and Trust Are

Walid Mehanna, chief data and A.I

Top Companies AIJul 24, 2026

AlphaFold redesigns CRISPR proteins to cut gene-editing errors

Researchers used Google's AlphaFold AI to identify which parts of Cas9 proteins enable off-target DNA edits in…

Ars Technica AIJul 24, 2026

AlphaFold used to redesign CRISPR proteins, cutting off-target edits from 28% to 5%

Researchers used Google's AlphaFold AI to identify which parts of the Cas9 protein (used in CRISPR gene editin…

Hacker NewsJul 24, 2026

Innovaccer hits $200M ARR by fixing hospitals' fragmented data

Innovaccer, a healthcare data platform founded by Abhinav Shashank, crossed $200 million(約320億円) in annual rec…

Fortune AIJul 24, 2026

Johnson & Johnson Funds AI Surgery Tools to Reduce Errors, Speed Training

Johnson & Johnson's Polyphonic AI Fund for Surgery QuickFire Challenge selected awardees developing AI tools f…

Top Companies AIJul 23, 2026

Biotech ETF XBI soars 25% this year as Big Pharma races to buy pipelines before patent cliffs hit

The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) has gained 25% this year and nearly 80% over the past 12 months, hitting its hi…

Top Companies AIJul 23, 2026

ChatGPT health advice worse for free users, better for paying subscribers

OpenAI is rolling out 'Health in ChatGPT' to U.S

THE DECODERJul 23, 2026

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Health to all US users, claims reasoning beats clinicians

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing users to connect medical reco…

The Verge AIJul 23, 2026

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health to all US users after lawsuit

OpenAI made ChatGPT Health available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all subscription tiers (free, Go…

TechCrunch AIJul 23, 2026

AI speeds drug design for biologics, cuts timelines by up to 50%

AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical companies are embedding AI into every stage of biologic drug development—…

Hacker NewsJul 23, 2026

Pfizer scientist wins Select Science award for oncology research video

A Pfizer scientist received the Select Science Award for Video of the Year for work on oncology research and i…

Top Companies AIJul 22, 2026

Medtronic launches AI compute platform for operating rooms

Medtronic is launching an AI compute platform for operating rooms

The Robot ReportJul 22, 2026

Xaira builds 'causal data' for drug discovery, scaling AI cell model 30×

Xaira Therapeutics, led by Chief Discovery Officer Ci Chu and Chief AI Scientist Bo Wang, built X-Cell, an AI…

Latent SpaceJul 21, 2026

AI Documentation Tools Let Doctors Focus on Patients, Not Paperwork

AI systems are being deployed in healthcare to automate clinical documentation, information review, and admini…

Robotics & Automation NewsJul 21, 2026

Bristol Myers Squibb Deploys Second AI Supercomputer for Drug Discovery

Bristol Myers Squibb announced deployment of its second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, built on eight DGX Vera Rubin NVL…

Top Companies AIJul 20, 2026

Bristol Myers Squibb Deploys Nvidia DGX SuperPOD to Build Life Sciences AI Infrastructure

Bristol Myers Squibb announced an expansion of its compute infrastructure through deployment of an Nvidia DGX…

Top Companies AIJul 20, 2026

Merck accelerates AI semiconductor materials strategy as Level Up project nears finish

Merck is intensifying its push into AI semiconductor materials as its Level Up project approaches completion

Top Companies AIJul 20, 2026

Merck expands AI semiconductor materials strategy ahead of Level Up completion

Merck is accelerating its push into AI semiconductor materials as it nears completion of Level Up, moving beyo…

DIGITIMES AsiaJul 20, 2026

Billion Cell Atlas adds three AI drug developers to genome research alliance

Illumina announced that its Billion Cell Atlas alliance—launched in January 2026 with AstraZeneca, Merck, and…

Top Companies AIJul 19, 2026

AI X-ray readers dangerously overconfident, losing to human radiologists

A test of 16 AI models on 200 X-ray cases showed human radiologists scored 988.7 out of 2,000 points on a metr…

THE DECODERJul 19, 2026

Pfizer, Tempus AI, Medtronic emerge as AI healthcare plays amid macro shifts

Three healthcare companies stand out for combining AI capabilities with scale: Pfizer ($143.3b market cap, ~US…

Top Companies AIJul 18, 2026

Thermo Fisher Completes $8.875B Clario Buy, Targets Clinical Trial Data Dominance

Thermo Fisher Scientific completed an $8.875 billion(約1.4兆円) cash acquisition of Clario Holdings, a clinical t…

Top Companies AIJul 18, 2026

US pilots AI for insurance approvals—but doctors fear faster denials

The Trump administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched WISeR (Wasteful and Inappropria…

Ars Technica AIJul 18, 2026

AI, robots poised to upend drug discovery with brute-force biology

Scientists are adopting AI and robotics to replace human-led hypotheses in biological research with automated…

Semafor TechJul 17, 2026

CVS Health turns to AI, tech to tackle drug affordability

CVS Health is deploying artificial intelligence and technology solutions to address rising medication costs an…

Top Companies AIJul 16, 2026

Illumina expands Billion Cell Atlas with Formation Bio, two others

Illumina announced three new members for its Billion Cell Atlas alliance, including AI-native drug developer F…

Top Companies AIJul 16, 2026

J&J Q2 Sales Rise 5.6%; Unveils AI Imaging and Robotic Surgery Platforms

Johnson & Johnson reported second-quarter 2026 worldwide sales of $25.3 billion(約4兆円), up 5.6% operationally…

Top Companies AIJul 16, 2026

ExaWizards、乳がん患者向けウェアラブル研究をASCO 2026で発表

ExaWizards and ExaMD presented findings from a wearable device study on breast cancer patients at the American…

Top Companies AIJul 16, 2026

Lila Sciences builds AI-run lab with 10T validated reasoning tokens

Lila Sciences is operating an automated laboratory—a warehouse of AI-guided robotics and instruments running e…

Latent SpaceJul 16, 2026

MindWalk Holdings joins Russell 3000E ahead of Q4 earnings

MindWalk Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HYFT), an Austin-based AI drug-discovery company, was added to the Russell 30…

Yahoo Finance AIJul 15, 2026

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang raises $200M at $2B for AI drug discovery startup

Miles Wang, an OpenAI researcher, is leaving to launch a startup focused on AI models for drug discovery

TechCrunch AIJul 15, 2026

Amgen, Scientists Say AI Speeds Drug Discovery but Is Not a Shortcut

Amgen and leading academic institutions held a roundtable conversation (Meeting the Moment) exploring how AI i…

Top Companies AIJul 9, 2026

Insilico starts Phase III trial for AI-discovered lung-fibrosis drug

Insilico Medicine initiated a Phase III clinical trial for Rentosertib, an oral small-molecule inhibitor targe…

Top Companies AIJul 7, 2026

Pharma Giants Back AI Drug Discovery with Billions as Clinical Proof Lags

Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1 billion(約3400億円) in May led by Thrive Capital and secured major partnerships with…

Top Companies AIJul 6, 2026

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Anthropic launches drug discovery programs for neglected diseases

Anthropic announced it is launching its own drug discovery programs targeting neglected diseases that traditio…

THE DECODERJul 4, 2026

Genesis AI model PEARL shows drug discovery can finally work—hitting real-world accuracy thresholds

Genesis Molecular AI's PEARL model demonstrated on the OpenBind benchmark that it can accurately predict how s…

Latent SpaceJul 1, 2026

Meta's non-invasive brain-reading AI cuts word errors to 39%, closing gap with implants

Meta researchers released Brain2Qwerty v2, which reconstructs typed sentences from brain signals measured outs…

THE DECODERJul 1, 2026

MindWalk Files Patent for AI Drug Discovery Data Layer

MindWalk Holdings (NASDAQ: HYFT) announced the filing of European patent application EP26187897.9, which cover…

Yahoo Finance AIJul 1, 2026

Eli Lilly backs AI drug startup Absci with $40M bet on injectable antibodies

Eli Lilly led a $100 million(約160億円) stock offering in Absci, an AI drug company, investing $40 million(約64億円)…

Fortune AIJul 1, 2026

Japanese startup to test pig kidney transplants in humans by 2028

PorMedTec, a startup spun out of Meiji University, announced it will conduct clinical trials transplanting pig…

Japan Times TechJun 29, 2026

Medical robots & AI take center stage at London festival debate

A live podcast recording at the Great Exhibition Road Festival in London brought together three leading UK aca…

RobohubJun 26, 2026

AWS shows how to build multi-tenant AI agents safely

AWS published a blog post demonstrating how to build multi-tenant AI applications using Amazon Bedrock AgentCo…

Amazon AI BlogJun 23, 2026

Thermo Fisher expands AI research, manufacturing capacity

Thermo Fisher announced new investments across three areas at BIO International 2026

Yahoo Finance AIJun 22, 2026

Jacobi–IDE adds AI debugging for Abaqus subroutines

Jacobi–IDE compiles and runs a suite of 12 physics tests on Abaqus subroutines (specialist engineering simulat…

Hacker NewsJun 21, 2026

Eli Lilly, Twist Bioscience turn AI into real medicines

Eli Lilly and Twist Bioscience are using AI in drug development in different ways

Yahoo Finance AIJun 19, 2026

Pramaana Labs raises $27 million for AI verification tools

Pramaana Labs announced $27 million(約43億円) in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Acc…

TechCrunch AIJun 17, 2026

Google's AMIE AI matches doctors in disease management

Google published research in Nature showing that AMIE, its medical AI system, can now manage ongoing health co…

Google AI BlogJun 17, 2026

AWS releases failure detection tools for AI agents that automatically diagnose why they fail in production, reducing diagnosis time from hours to minutes.

AWS Strands Evals SDK now includes detector functions that automatically scan AI agent execution traces to ide…

Amazon AI BlogJun 15, 2026

A startup founded by researchers who created the first AI-designed virus has raised $50 million(約80億円) to build AI models that can read and write the language of biology—DNA, RNA, proteins, and beyond—all in a single system.

Radical Numerics emerged from stealth with a $50 million(約80億円) seed round led by Emergence Capital, with part…

Fortune AIJun 15, 2026

General-purpose AI models outperformed specialized clinical AI tools across three independent tests, suggesting that widely available large language models may match or exceed the performance of proprietary medical software.

Researchers compared two specialized clinical AI tools—OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI—against three front…

Hacker NewsJun 14, 2026

Eli Lilly invests in Abridge, an AI platform that captures clinical conversations, to speed up drug trials and evidence generation by tapping real-world clinical data.

Eli Lilly has invested in Abridge, an AI-focused clinician documentation company whose platform is used across…

Top Companies AIJun 12, 2026

Abridge, an AI platform that turns doctor-patient conversations into clinical notes and billing codes, announced a $316 million(約510億円) funding round and partnerships with NVIDIA and Eli Lilly to expand beyond documentation into drug-trial screening and hospital-wide patient monitoring.

Abridge closed a $316 million(約510億円) Series E extension in April 2026 at a $5.3 billion(約8500億円) valuation

Fortune AIJun 11, 2026

Nxera Pharma joins OpenFold AI research consortium to advance drug discovery using open-source AI tools

Nxera Pharma announced on 10 June 2026 that it has joined OpenFold, a non-profit AI research consortium that d…

Yahoo Finance AIJun 10, 2026

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces three new Orbitrap mass spectrometry platforms and AI-enabled software for research, drug development, and safety testing.

Thermo Fisher Scientific unveiled three new Orbitrap mass spectrometry platforms—Orbitrap Tribrid Apex MS, Orb…

Top Companies AIJun 8, 2026

Reid Hoffman steps down from Microsoft's board to focus on AI drug-discovery startup Manus

Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016), is leaving Microsoft's boar…

Yahoo Finance AIJun 6, 2026

Compal showcases quantum-AI hybrid platform for drug discovery at COMPUTEX 2026, achieving up to 3,500× speed-ups over traditional molecular docking methods.

Compal Electronics demonstrated CGA-QX Docking, a production-ready platform developed with NVIDIA and academic…

Yahoo Finance AIJun 4, 2026

Investment strategist picks Absci Corp., an AI drug-discovery company, as single AI stock to hold through 2036.

Absci positions itself as a 'data-first generative AI drug creation company' that uses AI to design potential…

Yahoo Finance AIMay 26, 2026

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis claims AI could help 'solve all disease,' but the company's new Gemini for Science tools are designed for researcher use, not immediate cures.

At Google I/O, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis stated that the company hopes to 'reimagine the drug discovery proc…

The Verge AIMay 20, 2026

Shyld AI raises $13.4 million seed round to expand active AI systems across US hospitals

Shyld AI, founded by brothers Mohammad and Morteza Noshad, raised a $13.4 million seed round led by Aulis Capi…

Robotics & Automation NewsMay 19, 2026

Isomorphic Labs closes $2.1 billion Series B funding round to scale AI drug discovery platform toward clinical trials

Isomorphic Labs, led by Alphabet co-founder Demis Hassabis, raised $2.1 billion in a Series B round led by Thr…

THE DECODERMay 12, 2026

AI virtual medical assistants market projected to grow from USD 1.86 billion in 2025 to USD 8.85 billion by 2030, with a CAGR of 36.6%

The market valuation is USD 1.86 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 8.85 billion by 2030, driven by…

Yahoo Finance AIMay 11, 2026

Johnson & Johnson CEO: America's innovation advantage in healthcare is accelerating, with U.S. companies driving 55% of global biopharmaceutical R&D

American companies drive 55% of global R&D in biopharmaceuticals and produce more new medicines than any other…

Fortune AIMay 9, 2026

NVIDIA partners with Simulations Plus to accelerate drug development using GPU acceleration and AI-assisted workflows

NVIDIA entered a collaboration with Simulations Plus to apply GPU acceleration and AI-assisted workflows to dr…

Yahoo Finance AIMay 9, 2026

AI-powered diagnostics achieving above 99 percent accuracy could help combat antibiotic resistance, a public health crisis causing more than a million global deaths annually.

Antibiotic resistance causes more than a million global deaths annually and contributes to nearly 5 million mo…

WIRED AIApr 29, 2026

OpenAI launches free ChatGPT for Clinicians; company claims GPT-5.4 model outperforms human doctors on medical diagnosis tasks

OpenAI released ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free AI tool built specifically for medical professionals

THE DECODERApr 23, 2026

Noetik uses transformer AI models like TARIO-2 to address the 95% failure rate in cancer drug trials by reframing the problem as one of patient-treatment matching.

95% of cancer treatments fail during clinical trials, representing a massive inefficiency in drug development

Latent SpaceApr 20, 2026

The AI in medicine market is projected to reach $3.36 trillion by 2040, with tech giants like Google DeepMind and IBM Watson Health leading innovation in diagnostics and personalized treatment.

Market valued at $3.36 trillion through 2040, driven by major players including Google DeepMind, IBM Watson He…

Yahoo Finance AIApr 17, 2026

IQVIA launches AI platform with NVIDIA to revolutionize life sciences operations across research and commercial activities.

IQVIA Holdings has unveiled IQVIA.ai, a proprietary artificial intelligence platform developed in partnership…

Yahoo Finance AIApr 17, 2026

Researchers achieve 32.87 score on clinical QA task using two-stage QLoRA fine-tuning of Qwen3-4B model

QU-NLP team applies two-stage Quantised Low-Rank Adaptation (QLoRA) to Qwen3-4B loaded in 4-bit NF4 quantisati…

arXiv cs.CLApr 17, 2026

Researchers propose Group Fine-Tuning (GFT) to improve language model training by addressing fundamental limitations in supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning approaches.

Study reveals supervised fine-tuning (SFT) functions as a special case of policy gradient optimization with sp…

arXiv cs.AIApr 17, 2026

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