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Oura has agreed to acquire Counsel Health, an AI-native primary care company whose chatbot already sits inside the Oura app, for $625 million, as the smart ring maker pushes from biometric tracking into clinical care.
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8 briefingsBinance has disclosed that hackers used fake job interviews, malware and a compromised internal AI tool to drain $6.3bn from its hot wallets, an incident the FBI attributes to North Korea.
Canva is cutting, changing or relocating 1,271 roles, 22% of its workforce, after growth slowed for the first time in a decade, with CEO Melanie Perkins pointing to new technology reshaping what people create.
A 200-page draft sanitary and phytosanitary agreement would remove many post-Brexit certificates and checks on food and animal products traded between Great Britain and the EU, with the government claiming £5.1bn in eventual annual benefits, though the Guardian reports implementation may not come before the first quarter of 2028.
Apple reported $114.48bn in revenue and $2.10 a share in John Ternus's first quarter as chief executive, beating forecasts, but softer guidance for the Christmas quarter and a services slowdown pulled the stock down almost 3%.
BP's third-quarter underlying replacement cost profit reached $8.46 billion, the highest in 18 years, as war-driven refining margins and trading lifted earnings and net debt fell to $13.9 billion.
Welsh firm U-Test launches Sip Tips nail stickers that check drinks for GHB, Rohypnol and ketamine, plus IVDR-certified rapid STI self-tests.
AstraZeneca reported a 23% rise in third-quarter profit after tax to $3.12bn, driven by oncology, and set out a three-year restructuring intended to release $1.5bn a year for reinvestment in its drug pipeline.
Alphabet lost just over $500bn in market value after third-quarter profit fell short of expectations and its own AI search summaries began to weigh on advertising revenue, according to BBC News and The Guardian.
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