BetterGuards has teamed up with the NBA Training Association to outfit players with its adaptive ankle brace. The pro ballers are avoiding serious injury while evaluating the stabilizing design. Austin Reaves of the Los Angeles Lakers wears a BetterGuards ankle brace during the game against the Phoenix Suns in October, 2025. Matas Buzelis was in a situation every professional basketball player dreads. This sickening scenario often means an ankle injury is about to occur, especially for players like Buzelis with a lengthy history of them dating back to his high school years.

Chinese voice biometric systems developer iFlyTek has entered into collaboration with the Chongqing Economic and Technological Development Zone to nurture and mature over 100 artificial intelligence and automotive ecological startups within five years through an incubator program. The program will happen via the setting up of an'AI Automotive Ecology Acceleration Center,' according to iChongqing, a publication of the Chongqing International Communication Center. Apart from developing these startups, the project intends to create over 20 AI automotive projects. It will also introduce iFlyTek's advantages in AI, resources, and industrial ecology solutions to its intelligent automobile eco-partners, according to the announcement. The company's solutions include multi-microphone array noise reduction and biometric identification.

Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has introduced information technology initiatives under the agency's data science incubator program during the Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C., MedCityNews reported Thursday. Gottlieb highlighted the FDA's Information Exchange and Data Transformation program that seeks to standardize methods to examine potential applications of artificial intelligence in the clinical setting and the use of digital health tools in the premarket drug safety review process. FDA created the INFORMED program with the Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship and Action laboratory at the Department of Health and Human Services in a move to encourage collaborative scientific research and big data analytics efforts initially related to oncology. The agency partnered with Project Data Sphere to develop algorithms to classify tumor dynamics with the use of medical imaging data and teamed up with the National Cancer Institute to create a fellowship program that aims to produce digital biomarkers. Harvard University and FDA also collaborate on a fellowship program that explores machine learning and AI tools for potential use in the agency's regulatory process.