A startup combining AI and medical literature OpenEvidence uses artificial intelligence to research and synthesize medical knowledge, providing answers supported by expert references. Following a $250 million funding round in September, the company was valued at $15 billion. The platform…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMind and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has revised his forecast for the arrival of artificial intelligence with human-like cognitive abilities from three to five years to just two to three years,…
Brazilian healthtech company Tivita has launched Tom, a digital agent powered by artificial intelligence that records conversations between doctors and patients and generates a draft medical report. The doctor reviews and signs off on the text, while the tool is…
The problem of hallucinations Ask an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant a question, and it will almost always provide an answer, even if it doesn’t know the correct response. This phenomenon is known as hallucination and represents one of the most…
Brazil’s Artificial Intelligence Plan allocates around R$23 billion between 2024 and 2028, distributed across infrastructure, training, public services, business innovation, and governance. The budget isn’t limited to building a chatbot, suggesting a broader strategy for technology adoption. Infrastructure and Portuguese-language…
Feed Medic, founded by Rafael Freitas and Lucas Vieira, offers an AI-powered solution that enables healthcare professionals to generate Instagram posts, captions, stories, and reels while adhering to the Federal Council of Medicine’s (CFM) guidelines. The idea emerged from the…
Raras Health and Wikimedia Brasil have launched the Rare Knowledge initiative, which aims to improve access to information on over 10,000 rare diseases. The initiative combines an AI assistant on WhatsApp, scientific articles, protocols from Brazil’s Unified Health System, and…
The latest edition of the Digital Mindset Panorama, a survey by consultancy Brivia Group that assesses the digital maturity of companies in Brazil, reveals that despite the constant presence of artificial intelligence in board meetings and CEO speeches, the AI…
Following the sale of Cortex to Boston Scientific for up to $289 million, scientist Peter Ruppersberg launched Ammonix, a Swiss AI startup focused on compact models trained with specific data. Founded in spring 2025 in Blonay, a Swiss town on…
Anthropic, the company behind AI model Claude, has opened a physical biology lab in the San Francisco Bay area of the United States. Known as a wet lab, the facility is designed for hands-on experiments, complementing the company’s existing computational…
