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Beam Therapeutics said its one-time treatment risto-cel kept sickle cell patients free of severe pain crises for at least 12 months in a trial of 49 people, meeting the study’s main goal. It plans to ask the FDA for approval as early as the end of 2026 and has not yet released detailed results.
Amazon-owned Ring announced Ring Robotics, starting with the Ring Drone Cam, a small drone that flies set routes inside a home to check on rooms, and the Ring Rover Cam, a wheeled security robot for businesses. Both map a space and patrol on their own.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2.5, an AI model that controls robots, saying it succeeds 30% to 100% more often than its earlier model on 200 tasks. In a trial, Apptronik’s Apollo 2 humanoid robot used it to sort car parts on Mercedes-Benz lines in Hungary and Germany with a 96% success rate.
Google on Nov. 10 made Gemini 4 Carbon, which it calls its strongest AI model, available to paying developers and businesses and to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. Developers pay $2 per million tokens, small chunks of text, of input during an introductory period that ends Nov. 30.
The FDA is requiring warning labels on every GLP-1 diabetes and weight-loss drug about a possible higher risk of NAION, a rare eye condition that can cause sudden, permanent vision loss in one eye. In 126 clinical trials, the condition occurred at 6.4 cases per 100,000 patient-years on the drugs versus 3.8 on comparison treatments.
