Nobody gets excited about downloading a new app anymore. The little ritual, tap the store, wait for the icon, set up an account, trust it with a credit card, has turned into friction most people just avoid. So they stop downloading. Instead, they gravitate toward places where things just work without asking for another piece […]

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving from “pay and chase” to real-time AI screening across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched an artificial intelligence initiative aimed at detecting fraud and waste across federal health programmes, building on a strategy first outlined in […]

Oura, the Finnish company that turned a piece of finger jewellery into a serious health-tracking franchise, has filed confidentially for a US initial public offering. The filing comes less than a year after the company closed a $900m Series E that valued it at $11bn, more than double its $5.2bn mark from December 2024. The […]

Russell Nicolet’s personal journey in law shows that being committed to learning and client care can change lives, even if you do not have a map. Russell Nicolet had no family or mentor to guide him when he entered the legal world, yet he had to find his way. As the first person in his […]

Neurovascular care remains one of the more complex and uncertain areas of modern medicine. Millions of people live with conditions such as intracranial aneurysms without symptoms, yet when an event occurs, the consequences are often catastrophic, carrying high mortality rates and a substantial risk of long-term neurological disability. For neurospecialists, one of the most critical […]

A May 5 draft, due to be discussed in New York in August, takes aim at where digital revenue is taxed and by whom. A new draft protocol circulating inside the United Nations tax process would let countries tax companies like Google, Amazon and Meta based on where their users are, rather than where the […]

Two months out of stealth, the founder of Figure and Archer has a chip-and-model stack and a chip-and-model-stack-sized cheque to match. Hark, the AI hardware company that Brett Adcock began funding out of his own pocket late last year, has raised more than $700m in a Series A that values it at $6bn, according to Bloomberg. […]

Premium subscribers will be able to generate AI versions of songs by participating UMG artists. The financial terms were not disclosed. Spotify and Universal Music Group have signed licensing agreements that will let premium subscribers generate AI covers and remixes of songs by participating UMG artists, the two companies said on Thursday. It is the first […]

Nine CHIPS Act letters of intent, $1bn for IBM, and a government cap table that now includes most of the publicly traded quantum names. The US Department of Commerce has signed nine letters of intent to provide $2.013bn in CHIPS Act funding to quantum computing companies, in exchange for federal equity stakes in each recipient. […]

AcceleratorX, a new breed of startup accelerator purpose-built for AI founders opens Cohort 1 applications – offering startups unprecedented access to a pan-European network of 2,000+ marketing and communications professionals across 30 countries as real pilot clients from day one. Most AI startups don’t fail because they can’t build. In 2026, building has become cheap […]