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Sierra and Stripe let voice agents take payments during customer callsDuring payment, callers enter card details through the phone keypad, sending them directly to Stripe while the agent receives only transaction status and limited confirmation data. Cedar, an early user, reported that 71.3% of calls in which patients begin payment end successfully.→AstraZeneca signs up to $1.5 billion AI drug-discovery deal with insitroAstraZeneca will pay $40 million upfront, with insitro eligible for up to approximately $1.46 billion in development and commercial milestones. Insitro will use its Virtual Human platform to identify causal disease biology for MASH and cardiomyopathies.→A study finds radiology dominates FDA-authorised AI medical devicesThe analysis covered 1,430 authorisation records and found that 76.5% were reviewed by the FDA’s radiology panel. The authors use the result to highlight how clinical AI deployment remains concentrated in imaging workflows.→Ping An launches multilingual AI healthcare navigation in ChinaGlobalCare supports real-time two-way speech and text translation across 19 languages, including medical terminology. Ping An Good Doctor said the service was available for trial in Shenzhen after its unveiling at the Shenzhen Sci-Tech Innovation Exhibition.→OpenAI adds Epic EHR integration to ChatGPT for HealthcareOpenAI introduced a read-only Epic EHR integration that lets authorised clinicians review appointment notes, laboratory results, medications and specialist documentation in ChatGPT for Healthcare. It also launched a Healthcare Public Data plugin for official medical and public-health sources, with access controlled by organisational approval, existing Epic permissions and individual clinician sign-in.→Enovis makes €155 million binding offer for eCential RoboticsEnovis announced a binding offer valuing eCential Robotics at €155 million, with completion expected around the end of 2026 subject to customary approvals. eCential develops robotic-assisted surgery systems and enabling technologies for spine and orthopaedic procedures.→NHS watchdog finds AI scribes recording incorrect diagnoses and medicinesPatients identified cases where AI scribes confused diagnoses, substituted similarly named medicines or omitted prescription instructions that clinicians had missed. Twenty-seven AI scribes are in use across England, while the MHRA does not classify the tools as medical devices for nationwide oversight.→Signia puts four coordinated neural networks into a new hearing-aid platformThe networks are designed to model speech, noise, environment and the wearer’s own voice. Signia reports 54 times more processing power, 50% greater efficiency and twice the memory on its chip, plus a result in which 97% of wearers performed better than competitors in noisy group conversations; these are vendor-supplied figures.→TransformativeMed and Red Rover put agentic discharge planning inside Oracle HealthTransformativeMed said its Agentic Clinical Operating System will combine with Red Rover Health's interoperability layer and Model Context Protocol connections to access clinical context and workflow tools. Their first joint project is agentic patient-discharge planning with an academic health system, with a demonstration planned for the Oracle Health Summit in September.→Chest-CT AI workflow moves into a US hospital PACSThe AVIEW platform will analyse chest CT studies for lung-cancer screening and return structured findings inside INFINITT's PACS, including nodule assessment and prior-image comparison. The companies described it as their second North American deployment and said the repeatable integration model is intended to expand to more hospitals.→Denmark's Gefion supercomputer underpins a sovereign AI control layerThe platform provides an OpenAI-compatible API for managing and deploying leading models while retaining control over compliance, security and infrastructure choices. It runs on DCAI's ISO-certified Gefion supercomputer, with Trifork as an early adopter and DCAI investing in a Blackwell B300-based inference cluster.→Aiva says its nursing assistant can control more than 40 hospital IT systemsAiva said its nursing assistant now uses ChatGPT for Healthcare, Claude for Healthcare and Gemini Enterprise behind one voice interface for more than 40 hospital IT systems. The company cited integrations with Epic, Oracle Health and ServiceNow, alongside clinical reference, communication, nutrition and smart-room functions; the release provides no independent clinical evaluation.→OpenAI rolls ChatGPT Health out to US adultsHealth in ChatGPT can connect supported medical records and Apple Health data to provide answers grounded in a user’s personal context. OpenAI says connected health information and related conversations are not used to train its foundation models, and the product is not intended for diagnosis or treatment.→