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Medical Device RoundUp - November 2026
A few launches worth a look.
Check out the latest (Images belong to the brands):
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NEW: Edwards gets FDA approval for Autus expandable pulmonary valve for kids.
• Starts at 13mm diameter for ages 1-5, expands via balloon catheter to 22mm
• First device of its kind approved for pediatric congenital pulmonary valve disease
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Vinay Rao retweeted
Over 1 billion people live with hypertension, yet more than half don’t know they have it because traditional screening relies on periodic clinic visits or cumbersome cuff measurements.
In our @Nature publication, together with @BIDMChealth, and @harvardmed we present a multimodal artificial intelligence system capable of passively detecting signs of hypertension using a consumer smartwatch without requiring any cuff calibration.
Validated against the clinical gold standard of 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) across five U.S. sites, the system achieves accuracy levels comparable to traditional cuff-based diagnostic workflows for both initial and confirmatory screening.👇
Another way of saying, we're Freeriders. Not first movers.
APPLE $AAPL CEO JOHN TERNUS EXPLAINED WHY APPLE WAITED YEARS TO MAKE A FOLDABLE IPHONE
"We ship things when we're ready to ship them, right? It takes time.
Obviously, people have shipped foldable products before. None of them, we felt, were particularly appealing.
We wanted to design something that we were really passionate and excited about, and that's true on the hardware, but it's also true on the software and on the design.
It takes time to get it right, and we feel like we got it right."
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Any good stories on how users have managed to create custom workflows on Fal, orchestrating different diffusion models, to achieve better than a "packaged" solution?
Specially looking at something that does as well as Vizcom for ID.
BREAKING: @fal just raised $1.65 BILLION across its Series E & F
› Series E led by @sequoia
› Series F led by @BessemerVP
I sat down w/ Co-Founders: CEO Burkay Gür (@burkaygur) & CTO Görkem Yurtseven (@gorkem) to discuss the explosive growth of generative media, which they believe is 1 of only 3 major product-market fits in AI, alongside search & coding agents.
Founded in 2021 by former Coinbase & Amazon engineers, fal powers the infrastructure behind AI image, video, audio & 3D models, serving developers, studios & model labs.
fal
/faɫ/ · noun · Turkish
Pronounced approximately “fahl” (rhymes with doll in many American accents)
Definitions
1. Fortune-telling; divination. The practice of predicting future events, particularly through interpreting coffee grounds, cards, or other symbols.
2. Fortune; fate; luck. A person's destiny or prospects.
3. Omen; augury. A sign interpreted as indicating what may happen in the future.
A few highlights:
›› Professional users spend $10K–$20K/month generating AI media.
›› Video reached ~70% of fal's revenue before image editing drove a resurgence, bringing the mix back to 50/50.
›› Demand continued growing even as premium AI video model prices jumped more than 10X.
›› fal has scaled to ~150 employees with just 2 reporting levels.
›› Compute shortages are shaping model launches, while the founders believe AI's strongest margins will be captured by infrastructure providers rather than applications.
"AI really has 3 product market fits. One of them is search. The other really clear one that's growing really fast now is coding agents. & the third one is, we believe, generative media."
We recorded at Dalida in San Francisco & got into fal's evolution from Python infrastructure, the economics of AI inference, Hollywood, robotics, world models & the future of compute.
This was SO much fun!!
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Burkay Gur & Gorkem Yurtseven, Co-Founders at fal
(00:48) Why fal stopped chasing headlines
(03:15) Why generative media is AI’s next big market
(04:51) The infinite demand for AI videos
(09:35) The future of AI-generated ads
(13:19) How fal pivoted into generative media
(18:02) Hiring people who live and breathe AI
(23:01) Where AI meets Hollywood
(24:29) From friends to Co-Founders
(27:48) What a “Super IC” actually is
(35:58) The hardest part of staying at the frontier
(37:42) Why compute is the bottleneck for new models
(41:55) Why AI models have such weird names
(43:56) The story behind the name fal
(45:12) Why open source isn't going anywhere
(49:02) "AI has had zero impact on Hollywood"
(53:39) Waiting for AI's Toy Story moment
(56:58) Why Jack Dorsey is underrated
(58:55) Why the application layer has no margins
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Vinay Rao retweeted
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I love the energy on this platform. A lot of folks are making something or the other. I do feel that things need a dash of style and that's what we bring to the table.
This is going to be like their tie up with EssilorLuxottica glasses? Eventually, Meta will want multiple manufacturers to work with their 'OS'.
🤖 scoop 🤖
Meta built a humanoid robot prototype called Max with Chinese firm Fourier in just 3 months.
Meta’s now ramping up its efforts and working on a 2nd prototype as it sees robots as a physical embodiment of Muse.
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Hardware Roundup - Week 44
A lot of exciting recent consumer hardware launches.
Some notable ones are from Xreal, Alloop, Matic Robots, and Leica.
Check out the latest drops (Images belong to the brands):
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NEW: Leica launches Q3 43 Formula 1 Edition.
• Carbon fiber accents, red buttons, exclusive color profile; but same sensor and lens as standard Q3 43
• F1 brand collab limited edition is justified premium for collectors;
• $9,950 vs. $7,995 standard model; roughly 25% markup for a cosmetic change
How much does F1 make from this?
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Vinay Rao retweeted
Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse.
We gave it 19 gene therapy vectors in a spreadsheet, a mouse model of epilepsy, access to a motorize surgery rig with cameras and one goal: reduce seizures.
It picked the drug. It picked the brain region. It derived the coordinates from three papers. Then it drove the stereotaxic arms into the brain and injected 250 nanolitres while watching the entry site through the rig camera for bleeding.
A licensed vet gated every irreversible step and held a physical kill switch to stop the AI agent.
Thread on what it decided, what it saw, and the moment it refused to let me override it.
[Writing this on the spot out of excitement, but I've been 18hrs in front of my laptop coding and coordinating this, so keeping it brief and descriptive, more cohesive thoughts on this soon...]
