💼 Meta-backed Hupo grows after pivot from mental wellness to AI sales coaching for finance (Kate Park, TechCrunch) — 01/12/26 TL;DR: Singapore-headquartered Hupo, formerly the mental wellness app Ami, raised a $10M Series A led by DST Global Partners to scale its real-time AI sales coaching for banks and insurers, with plans to expand into the U.S. in the first half of 2026.
🏥 Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare and expands Life Sciences tools (Anthropic, Anthropic) — 01/12/26 TL;DR: Anthropic introduced HIPAA-ready Claude for Healthcare with new connectors (CMS coverage, ICD-10, NPI, plus PubMed for enterprise) and added life sciences integrations (including Medidata and ClinicalTrials.gov) to support workflows like prior auth, claims appeals, clinical trials, and regulatory submissions.
🏛️ Newsom forecasts rosier California budget, banking on AI-driven revenues (Yue Stella Yu, CalMatters via Westside Connect) — 01/16/26 TL;DR: Newsom’s 2026–27 budget proposal pegs a $2.9B shortfall in a nearly $349B plan and projects $9B more revenue than expected, largely tied to continued tech and AI stock windfalls.
📊 Wellcome publishes Annual Report 2025, detailing impact and finances for 2024/25 (Wellcome, Wellcome) — 01/13/26 TL;DR: Wellcome reports investing £1.9B in science, health, and wellbeing from Oct 1, 2024 to Sept 30, 2025, highlighting major initiatives like the £37M GRAM-ADI antibiotic discovery consortium and a $300M Climate and Health Funders Coalition launch.
🥽 VCU researcher teams up with T-Mobile to scale VR mental health therapy for youth via Arche XR (Jeff Kelley, VCU Health) — 01/15/26 TL;DR: VCU psychologist Nicholas D. Thomson’s startup Arche XR partnered with T-Mobile for Education to bring its evidence-based VR mental health programs into more schools, using 5G connectivity for deployment, updates, and outcome tracking, with plans to expand nationwide.
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