wearables

Apple began distributing a second developer beta of AirPods firmware version 9 on June 23, 2026, alongside watchOS 27 beta 2, expanding testing of iOS 27-era audio features to supported AirPods models including AirPods Max 2. The release is small in the way firmware betas usually are, but it...

Microsoft’s entry into consumer-facing healthcare AI with Copilot Health is the latest, high-stakes chapter in a fast-moving contest among the cloud giants to own how people ask — and act on — medical questions, and it crystallizes a simple strategic truth: if users are willing to hand over...

Microsoft has launched Copilot Health — a new, standalone space inside Copilot that promises to pull together medical records, wearable metrics, lab results and personal health history, apply AI to spot patterns, and present actionable insights to help people prepare for appointments and better...

The Senate quietly cleared the way this week for aides to use ChatGPT and other generative chatbots in official work — a practical leap that brings obvious productivity gains but also reopens familiar security and legal fault lines for Congress and the wider federal enterprise. Background The...

Microsoft’s Copilot is taking a bigger step into personal health: recent UI evidence suggests a dedicated Health tab and new wearable and medical-record connectors could turn Copilot from a search‑centric assistant into a continuous, data‑aware health companion — but those connector claims...