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Varaha's fresh funding is part of a $45 million Series B round led by WestBridge Capital.

Founders and investors in the Minneapolis tech industry told TechCrunch they've put much of their work on hold to help out their community.

In his book The Intimate Animal, sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need for human intimacy, which is the real issue at the root of the loneliness epidemic.

Intel has been bulking up a team to focus on this effort and will develop its GPU strategy around customer needs.

I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

All startups accepted into YC will soon have the option to receive their seed checks via stablecoins.

Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.

Roku is knocking down the price of all of its streaming devices ahead of football’s big game.

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The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight.

Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.

Gradient's heat pumps fit in windows, minimizing installation times. Now, it is introducing software to make those units more intelligent.

Watch Club will house microdramas and fan discussions in the same app, creating a fandom-focused social media experience.

Right-wing influencers who were instrumental in spreading allegations of fraud in Minnesota ahead of ICE’s surge are now going after a number of California’s social welfare programs.

This AI doctor is licensed in all 50 states, the startup says. The deal was led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins.

The Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it is expanding a criminal investigation into X for alleged crimes, including the possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material.

The next phase of digital mental health adoption depends less on innovation and more on how the industry uses real-world evidence, builds reimbursement frameworks, and applies regulatory precedent to accelerate scale.

The post Demand for Non-Pharmacological Mental Health Needs a Delivery System appeared first on MedTech Intelligence.

National Institutes of Health Director Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., spent much of a Senate committee hearing dancing around direct answers—except when it came to vaccines, a topic on which he finally delivered a clear view on the technology’s lack of ties to autism.

Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into mainstream medical devices, and the industry has become fluent in a familiar set of concerns: bias, transparency, and cybersecurity. These topics matter, but they don’t capture the risks most likely to shape patient safety in the coming decade. The deeper challenges lie in the interactions between algorithms, clinical workflows, data pipelines, and human decision making. Those interactions are where safety is won or lost, and they remain the least examined part of AI adoption.

The post AI in Medical Devices: Safety Questions the Industry Can’t Afford to Ignore appeared first on MedTech Intelligence.