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Whoop makes a subscription-based wearable fitness and health tracker that monitors metrics like heart rate, sleep, recovery and strain without a screen.
Whoop, accepted into Medicare's ACCESS program, must show better or controlled blood pressure, A1C and LDL cholesterol to be paid in full. Chief medical officer Ami Bhatt told the STAT Summit that simplifying the app comes first for patients 65 and older.
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Google will sync cycle data from Flo Health, used by more than 80 million women a month, into Google Health and its coach from early next year. The coach sits in the $10-a-month Premium tier, so the deal's value to Google depends on how many users subscribe.
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Google is selling the Fitbit Air in India for Rs 13,999, about $146 and roughly 47% more than the $99 it charges in the US. A band pitched elsewhere as the affordable screen-less option arrives as a premium buy where Indian startups compete on cost.
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Existing holders are selling 36.5 million of the 50 million shares on offer. Oura's own 13.5 million would net about $532.6 million at the $42 midpoint, ahead of pricing on September 29 at up to $14.1 billion.
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The $2,195 Tread Flex stands upright on wheels in about half the footprint of Peloton's other treadmills. It undercuts the roughly $4,000 debut Tread by about 45 percent. The camera that grades running form stays on the dearer models.
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Snowflake's multi-year agreement with OpenAI, announced February 2, puts GPT-5.2 inside Cortex AI for 12,600 existing customers on all three major clouds. The companies did not say which side pays the $200 million.
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Apple's evidence for calling the Ultra 4's new optical sensor the most accurate in a wearable is a white paper Apple published, drawn from a study where most participants wore competitor watches on the other wrist. DC Rainmaker is testing it outdoors.
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Google's Fitbit Air arrived in May and Garmin's Cirqa in July, both sold without the yearly fee Whoop charges. IDC says sensor quality has barely moved, so the software is what these companies are actually selling.
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Apple says the Series 12 and Ultra 4 are the most accurate heart-tracking wearables on the market. One reviewer's hour of walk-run intervals, judged against the same chest strap Apple's own accuracy study used, mostly backs it.
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Apple will add a Health Age number later this year to a category where Whoop, Oura, Withings and Garmin each compute their own. Verge reviewer Victoria Song has collected age scores from six products, and they do not agree.
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Readiness compresses sleep, heart rate and activity into one number from zero to 10, then tells the wearer to recover or go for it. That is a different promise from the alerts users already trust.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is testing all-day heart-rate logging and a rebuilt health app showing Whoop- and Oura-style metrics, which puts the interpretation layer subscribers pay for onto hardware they already own.
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Bloomberg's Power On reports Apple is testing heart rate collection that runs all day rather than mostly during workouts. Digital Trends puts Pixel Watch 3 at one reading a second, which is the real gap.
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Wired counts five screen-free bands already shipping, with an Apple version reportedly under evaluation. When the hardware cannot show a number, the app is the only place a buyer sees what the money bought.
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A September listing with a large secondary component would price the smart ring maker about 47% above last year's private mark. Revenue and membership numbers are still undisclosed.
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The 45% markup in eleven months is measured off October's $11B round. Membership at $5.99 covers roughly a fifth of forecast 2026 sales, and the draft filing carries no audited numbers.
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The Pod already takes HSA dollars. Getting an insurer to pay means clearing a prescription-grade bar with one independent published study on the books.
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