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The MedTech Billionaire Waging A Patent War With Apple

Joe Kiani, the founder and CEO of Masimo, has spent $60 million fighting Apple in court over its smartwatch, as he faces a boardroom battle over his consumer tech push.

This AI Startup Wants To Be The Next Nvidia By Building Brain Cell-Powered Computers

At Cortical Labs, CEO Hon Weng Chong is building biological computers that he hopes will not just surpass AI, but supercharge growth of other companies.

Lawsuits Allege This Startup Ripped Off Millions From Vendors. Andreessen Horowitz Backed The Former CEO’s New Company Anyway

The venture firm made a repeat investment in Munjal Shah, but his previous company Health IQ is facing allegations of millions in unpaid invoices and one lawsuit is alleging fraud.

Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan On Their New ‘Biohub’ In Chicago And How They Plan To Spend Billions To Help Others Cure Or Manage Disease

In a rare interview, the Meta Platforms CEO and his pediatrician wife, who are Co-CEOs of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, discuss their plans to use technology to deepen understanding of human cells and tissues–and the impact they want it to have on hu…

ChatGPT Won’t Fix Healthcare, But It Might Save Doctors Some Time

Generative AI is entering the doctor’s office – but it’s not through the front door.

How Thousands Of Nurses Got Licensed With Fake Degrees

There’s an old, but now fast growing degree mill industry doing an estimated $7 billion a year worldwide in fraudulent diplomas and transcripts.

A Quick Remedy Proves Elusive For Life-Saving Pulse Oximeter’s Problems With Darker Skin

Since the start of the pandemic, the popular medical device has been indispensable for measuring oxygen in the blood, but dangerously inaccurate in patients with darker skin. Now the FDA is in the hot seat and Black researchers are working on a cure.

This Legendary Billionaire Biotech Investor Has Remained A Mystery—Until Now

In an exclusive excerpt from For Blood And Money, the untold story of Wayne Rothbaum and the worst trade of his life. But what cost him some $700 million turned out to be the boon for countless cancer patients.

Students Viewed This Type Of TikTok 412 Billion Times—And It’s Not Porn

McGraw Hill’s response: a new app that looks, as one student put it, like “their textbook and TikTok had a baby.”

Meet The Iranian Immigrant Who Became A Covid MedTech Billionaire

Joe Kiani surmounted overwhelming personal and professional odds to build a better blood oxygen monitoring device. So why should he be afraid to push his scrappy company into consumer electronics, challenging firms 100 times its size?