Isomorphic Labs reportedly seeks $5 billion, Oura agrees to buy Counsel Health for $625 million, and more - Life AI Weekly #93

In this edition, covering 4 to 10 November:

• Oura agreed to acquire Counsel Health for $625 million in cash, adding Counsel's medical AI and physician care to the Oura app.
• Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise $5 billion at a $50 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, and founder Demis Hassabis expects its first clinical trials to start by the end of December.
• Google Cloud launched Gemini for healthcare in preview, with Hartford HealthCare, HCA Healthcare, Highmark Health, Northwell Health, Optum and Stanford School of Medicine among launch customers or contributors.

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Consumer health deals

Oura will acquire Counsel Health for $625 million in cash and combine Oura's biometric data with Counsel's medical AI and physician care in the Oura app. Counsel will keep serving its enterprise partners, and the companies plan to expand preventive, acute and chronic care services. Oura and Counsel Health

Elomia Health acquired Earkick, whose AI companion has been used by more than 250,000 people to track mood, sleep, activity and daily habits. The deal adds Earkick's AI models and early access to Mia21, its memory engine, to Elomia's API for healthcare and other care focused organisations. Elomia Health

Drug discovery funding and partnerships

Isomorphic Labs, the UK based Google DeepMind spinout, is discussing a $5 billion funding round that would value it at $50 billion, according to Bloomberg. The financing is not final and terms could change. If completed, the round would bring the company's external funding to about $7.7 billion. Founder Demis Hassabis expects Isomorphic Labs to start its first clinical trials by the end of December. Isomorphic Labs

Laboratoires Pierre Fabre and XtalPi will work together to find clinical candidates in oncology, rare diseases and possibly dermatology. XtalPi will design small molecule drugs against undisclosed targets with its AI and robotics platform, and Pierre Fabre will select compounds and handle clinical and commercial development. Financial terms were not disclosed. Boltz PBC will train its BoltzMol 1 ADMET models on Excelra's GOSTAR data on solubility, lipophilicity and Caco 2 permeability. In a technical report, Boltz found active compounds for six of 10 complex targets using 28 to 96 compounds per target. Everest Group named Excelra a leader in its 2026 assessment of pharma research and development IT services. Pierre Fabre and XtalPi · Excelra and Boltz · Everest Group

Deerfield Management is working with AWS to help selected portfolio companies build AI systems for drug discovery, operational automation and care delivery. AWS becomes Deerfield's preferred AI provider and will provide cloud services, technical support and training. Network Bio will profile tissue and blood samples from Duke University biobanks and combine the results with deidentified clinical records and treatment outcomes to train AI models for earlier disease detection, target discovery and treatment selection. Deerfield and AWS · Network Bio and Duke

Compugen, which uses its Unigen AI engine to find cancer drug targets, reported third quarter revenue of about $3.8 million, up from $1.9 million a year earlier, and cash runway into 2029. Its MAIA-ovarian trial is fully enrolled, with results expected by the end of March 2027. Proximal Ventures, founded by former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof, raised a $27.5 million debut fund and will invest $500,000 to $1.5 million in pre seed and seed startups that use AI for pharmaceutical services and drug development. It has backed seven startups so far, including ChronicleBio. Compugen · Proximal Ventures

Drug discovery research

OpenAI introduced BioBasicsBench, a 100 task benchmark built with biotech company Ligo that tests how AI agents interpret raw wet lab evidence, detect errors and recognize when data cannot support a conclusion. Across 37 model and reasoning settings, GPT-6 Astra scored 66.7% at the xhigh setting, compared with 43.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol. BioBasicsBench

Cancer Research UK and Harvard will test AURORA, an agentic AI system built by a Harvard team, in three Cancer Grand Challenges projects on cancer initiation, interactions between T cells and tumors, and immune cell treatments for children and young people. Human researchers keep scientific control. AURORA

Researchers in David Baker's lab used RFdiffusion, sequence prediction models and AlphaFold to design new cysteine and zinc(II) metalloproteases. The enzymes were active, including against some disease related human proteins, but less efficient than natural proteases. Tsingke Biotech is combining AI molecular design with nucleic acid synthesis, automated lab workflows and high throughput experiments. Baker lab · Tsingke

Inductive placed first among more than 270 participants, including NVIDIA and Recursion, in the OpenADMET CYP Direct Inhibition Blind Challenge, its fourth straight win in OpenADMET challenges. Sino Biological launched 4RISE, a wet lab service that tests AI designed molecules for binding, developability and function, and says it can return binding data in as little as three days. Fapon is presenting AI engineered enzymes for molecular diagnostics at the AMP 2026 Annual Meeting in Seattle. Inductive · Sino Biological · Fapon

Research platforms and data

Insilico Medicine released Longevity Grok as open source, a multi agent AI system built for the Grok Bot platform with Harvard researcher David Sinclair. It can coordinate up to 30 specialised agents to combine health records, wearables and other data, generate predictive intervention plans and support opt in, deidentified aging research. Polish AI company Ingenix says its 9 billion parameter Thalamus Reasoning model ranked first among 29 models on LongevityBench, leading on 11 of 14 tasks. It is releasing Thalamus Decision as open source and developing a 95 billion parameter model. Insilico Medicine · Ingenix

10x Genomics reported third quarter revenue of $150.7 million, up 1%, and raised its 2026 revenue guidance to $625 million to $635 million. It began global shipments of its Atera platform and introduced Sentira, a cloud analysis platform that uses NVIDIA accelerated computing and Anthropic's Claude for biological data analysis. 10x Genomics

Ro launched Ro Research Lab, which combines AI with clinical care, pharmacy, laboratory and patient reported data to study treatment outcomes. Ro says findings will be shared publicly. Inovia Bio launched InovaMine, a biostatistics and data pipeline platform that produces tables, listings and figures from interventional study and real world data, with qualified statisticians or epidemiologists reviewing outputs before release. Ro · Inovia Bio

TriNetX launched clinical facts extracted with NLP from more than 800 million clinical notes and reports. The facts are checked against human annotated notes, carry confidence scores and are linked to structured EHR data for the same deidentified patients. TriNetX

Cloud platforms and health systems

Google Cloud launched Gemini for healthcare in preview, a platform that connects clinical, administrative, billing and operational data for work such as medical record synthesis, coverage review and prior authorization. Hartford HealthCare, HCA Healthcare, Highmark Health, Northwell Health, Optum and Stanford School of Medicine are among the launch customers or contributors. AuxoAI joined as a launch partner and will connect Gemini with customers' data, policies and workflows in payer and provider operations. Gemini for healthcare · AuxoAI

Microsoft and The Ohio State University agreed a five year partnership that covers a smart hospital model, moving about 70% to 80% of storage and compute to Microsoft Azure, a unified data platform, AI tools for clinicians and researchers, and AI training. Google.org is giving Israel's Clalit Health Services a two year, $2 million grant for a multilingual conversational AI system that will help its roughly five million members book appointments, complete intake and get follow up guidance. Microsoft and Ohio State · Clalit

Clinical studies

In the 530 patient PARAMOUNT trial presented at AHA 2026, care guided by Cleerly's AI coronary plaque analysis beat usual care based on stress tests with a win ratio of 2.00. It is the first randomised trial of the approach, and the results are not yet peer reviewed. Cleerly

In a Nature Communications study, NYU Langone's PREVIA tool, which analyzes what trauma patients say in the emergency room, flagged all 30 patients who later developed PTSD, compared with 89% for a specialist clinician. NYU Langone's Lang1, a family of models trained on records from more than 10 million patients, predicted insurance denials, 30 day readmissions and in hospital mortality more accurately than large general AI models in several tests. NYU Langone plans to offer Lang1 and its evaluation tool ReMedE to other hospitals as a confidential service. PREVIA · Lang1

Researchers built Quest2Dx, a model that screens for Parkinson's disease from self reported health questionnaires. It reached AUROCs of 0.977 on PPMI Online and 0.974 on Fox Insight, and 0.920 and 0.952 in cross questionnaire tests. The University of Exeter will lead BRAINIAC, a six year, £20 million hub funded half by UKRI and half by industry, charity and NHS partners, to build AI for dementia prevention and detection from brain imaging, genetics, blood biomarkers and digital cognitive tests, with clinics planned across the UK from 2029. Quest2Dx · BRAINIAC

Physician oversight

The American Medical Association, meeting in Orlando, adopted a policy that clinical AI must be used within physician led teams and under the direction of the treating physician. The policy rejects licensing AI as a physician, calls for evidence, regulation and liability protections, makes vendors responsible for defective products and opposes AI generated exploitative material involving minors. AMA

Patient data and privacy

Palantir used WhatsApp messages and a briefing document to urge former UK health minister Zubir Ahmed to consider adding GP records to its NHS federated data platform, although its £330 million contract excludes GP data. Doctors and patient groups warned the move could weaken trust. Weill Cornell Medicine says records from its imaging service were processed with AI tools between 10 and 20 June without authorisation and against its policies, for a radiology study. It has suspended the research. Palantir · Weill Cornell

Imaging and surgery

Laza Medical raised up to $160 million in a structured Series B led by GE HealthCare, with Unorthodox Ventures, PA MedTech and AMED, to develop an AI robotic imaging system for cardiac catheterization labs. The system is still in development and not approved for sale. Laza Medical

Merge introduced Merge Imaging, a cloud native platform that connects radiology, cardiology and clinical imaging workflows, with embedded MergeIQ AI, AssignIQ study assignment and lung nodule and lesion tracking, ahead of RSNA 2026. Lunit will supply INSIGHT CXR and INSIGHT MMG to Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs through solutions by stc, for AI analysis of chest radiographs and mammograms. Merge · Lunit

Cortechs.ai and Subtle Medical will combine Cortechs.ai's NeuroQuant brain measurement software with Subtle Medical's MRI enhancement and alignment software for faster scans and automated brain and lesion measurements returned to PACS. The companies will also study measurement consistency across scanners. Cortechs.ai and Subtle Medical

Zimmer Biomet introduced Surgeon-Guided Autonomy, a framework for orthopedic surgery that combines AI, robotics and recovery data while surgeons stay in control. The company says it is not a product for sale. Zimmer Biomet

Mosaic Intelligence Labs, founded by Stanford researchers Ileana Pirozzi and Alison Kight Mackanic, came out of stealth with $47 million in seed funding from 8VC, Fundomo, Lingotto Innovation and Obvious Ventures. It develops sensing instruments, AI systems and robotic tools that help surgeons navigate blood vessels. Mosaic Intelligence Labs

OpenEvidence

OpenEvidence launched Learn, a free platform for medical students, trainees and clinicians with more than 50,000 board style questions, AI case tutoring, flashcards and CME tracking. Johns Hopkins and Penn medical schools will help test it. The American College of Physicians will add its clinical guidance and Annals of Internal Medicine content to OpenEvidence's clinical decision support platform for US physicians. Learn · ACP

Care operations and agents

Paris based Granit raised $6 million in a round led by Seedcamp for AI agents that handle billing, insurance claims and payment tracking for healthcare providers, and plans a back office platform for providers across Europe. Siggy raised $6 million in pre seed funding for an AI service that collects patient histories, runs daily check ins and tracks treatment progress for licensed mental health clinicians. UK company Nayara raised a pre seed round led by SFC Capital for AI companions that support patients between appointments and flag issues to clinical teams. Granit · Siggy · Nayara

Clearwave joined the MEDITECH Alliance as an Accelerator Partner, and says its AI agents automate registration, check in, eligibility checks, payments, intake and outreach for MEDITECH hospitals. Fairview Health Services chose Layer Health to automate clinical registry abstraction, starting with the Get With The Guidelines Stroke registry. Third party administrator WellNet Healthcare is deploying EHVAhealth voice AI for inbound provider calls about eligibility, benefits and claims status. Clearwave · Fairview and Layer Health · WellNet

Attuned Intelligence launched Attuned Coverage, an AI voice and chat service that guides patients through Medicaid applications and renewals, and OCHIN will offer it to its members. TackleAI opened access to Milo, its medical record AI, which scored 64.0 and ranked first among six models on the Synthetic Hospital v1.3 benchmark, ahead of models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Zhipu. Attuned Intelligence · TackleAI

From January to October 2026, Dimer Health and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in New Jersey gave AI supported, clinician led care to 680 patients for 30 days after discharge. The program found unmet care needs in 23% of them, and 89% of those were referred or scheduled for further care. Bergen New Bridge will extend the program to other hospital units. MCG Health and Telligen will present a case study on AI supported medical necessity review at HLTH 2026 on November 17. Dimer Health · MCG Health and Telligen

Authenticx made KBo Flow generally available, an autonomous research agent that analyzes voice, chat, email, survey and CRM data for drugmakers, health plans and providers, and says it has saved more than 2,000 analyst hours since clients started using it on October 1. Annexus Health launched a platform on its AssistPoint software that uses AI to match patients with financial assistance programs and track funding during treatment. Five Elms Capital made a growth investment in iCareManager, which will expand its AI features for intellectual and developmental disability and human services providers. Authenticx · Annexus Health · iCareManager

Documentation and coding

XpertDox will deploy autonomous medical coding at Camarena Health, a federally qualified health center in California's Central Valley, across family practice, women's health and behavioral health. Net Health added ambient AI documentation to its WoundExpert EHR and says it cuts documentation time by about half. Ensora Health plans an upgraded Session Assistant and Notes Enhancement for its Fusion EHR. XpertDox · Net Health · Ensora Health

ModuleMD showed its WISE Touch AI platform for independent pulmonary and sleep medicine practices at CHEST 2026 in Phoenix. Ortho Molecular Products will handle onboarding for HANS, an AI clinical platform for functional and integrative medicine that drafts SOAP notes and patient plans. DentScribe says version 2.165.0 of its dental AI passed all 68 tests of its new Periodontal Charting Benchmark 1.0. ModuleMD · HANS · DentScribe

Patient tools

ProjectLeo launched Leo2.0, a health AI platform in 13 languages that helps patients and caregivers read medical paperwork, prepare questions and draft insurance appeal letters, connected to records from more than 70,000 providers. Pivotal Technologies is working with b.well Connected Health so Healist.AI users can connect their clinical records, with consent, alongside wearable data. Jeenius says that in its tests of leading AI models for speech to speech interpreting in healthcare, only 20 languages met its accuracy threshold. ProjectLeo · Pivotal and b.well · Jeenius

In an Oshi Health survey of 285 US adults who used AI for digestive health concerns, 69% moved a specialist appointment earlier or booked one they otherwise would not have, and 72% said it was very or extremely important to discuss the AI information with a clinician. Lyric Health is connecting VivaScore's AI health scores, built from wearable, device and assessment data, with its virtual care. South Korean company SAMILBIO plans to launch NpillAI, which combines 24 hour AI chat consultations based on checkup and medication data with pharmacist review and delivery. Oshi Health · Lyric Health · SAMILBIO

Czech startup Kardi Ai raised €5.3 million in a Series A led by Callisto Health for long term ECG monitoring with a chest strap, an app and AI analysis; it plans models that assess arrhythmia risk before symptoms appear. Switchpoint Bio, based in Helsinki and Cambridge, raised $5.3 million in pre seed funding to validate its AI blood based epigenomics platform for tracking treatment response, first in autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Kardi Ai · Switchpoint Bio

Appointments

AION Labs named Ilana Mandel chief scientific officer and Shira Warszawski chief technology officer as it expands its pharmaceutical research work beyond AI into quantum technology, robotics and lab automation. Raidium added Stanford radiologist Curtis Langlotz to its advisory board to advise on clinical validation of AI assisted radiology reporting. AION Labs · Raidium

Also

SOTERIA Precision Medicine Foundation is working with Tempus to give active duty service members and veterans genomic profiling, AI supported cancer treatment insights and access to targeted therapies and clinical trials. Livmor opened a private preview of Carrier Command, which compares Medicare Advantage plans across all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and 3,190 counties, before a public launch on December 1. GrowthLoop and EVERSANA expanded AI decisioning for biopharma marketing to healthcare professionals; in their tests, morning sends scored 13% higher on weighted engagement than afternoon sends. SOTERIA and Tempus · Livmor · GrowthLoop

The Medical Society of Virginia and mduo will give Virginia physicians free access to Career Care AI for compensation benchmarks, contract analysis and job matching. PSG Global Solutions says Vizient designated its Anna AI healthcare recruiting product an Innovative Technology. Medical Society of Virginia · PSG Global Solutions