Headspace, the meditation and mental health app, is being acquired for nearly $300 million by which AI healthcare startup? Test your knowledge in this week's Pointed, Bloomberg’s weekly news quiz for risk-takers ⤵️

Learn more about how Isomorphic Labs' Drug Design Engine is using artificial intelligence to help solve disease. Join Agnieszka Podsiadlo and Andreas Loukas today at 3:00pm at the Google booth (#B206#) to discuss AI healthcare pipelines. #ICML2026#

Loved talking healthcare AI with @DhruvKhullar and @brindaadhikari (and team) on the "Why Should I Trust You?" podcast (@WSITYpod). On the menu: should patients trust AI, impact on med ed, who's liable when it errs – and, inevitably, whither doctors.

10 WAYS TO INVEST IN HEALTHCARE AI • $WGS uses exome & genome sequencing to diagnose rare diseases • $PRCT provides waterjet-based robotic systems for treating enlarged prostate • $VEEV provides cloud software & data infrastructure for life sciences workflows • $DOCS provides physicians with AI-enabled clinical workflow & productivity tools • $GH uses liquid biopsy & genomic data for cancer detection & treatment selection • $ISRG powers robotic surgery through the da Vinci platform & growing software stack • $ABCL uses microfluidic screening & AI to discover antibodies for biopharma partners • $HIMS delivers telehealth prescriptions with personalized formulations & dosing at scale • $TEM combines multimodal clinical data with AI to improve diagnostics & treatment decisions • $TWST supplies synthetic DNA used in protein design and directed evolution across computational biology

AI tools are playing an increasingly large role in mental health care, but the governance frameworks needed to ensure they are safe and effective are lagging behind. A policy workshop, hosted by @StanfordHAI's Healthcare AI Policy Steering Committee in collaboration with @StanfordMed's AI for Mental Health Initiative, identified three critical challenges policymakers need to address: