OpenAI is exploring a move into consumer health apps, aiming to leverage its AI capabilities to transform the sector. With new hires like Nate Gross leading health care strategy and Ashley Alexander as vice president of health products, OpenAI is considering developing tools such as personal health assistants or data aggregators. Despite past failures by tech giants like Google and Microsoft in health data management, investors believe OpenAI's scale and AI expertise could give it an edge. The company's approach includes potential partnerships to manage health data, avoiding direct handling of medical records.

Amazon is reportedly blocking apps that allow illegal streaming on newly purchased and existing Fire TV Sticks, according to The Athletic. The effort, which began in France and Germany before being rolled out globally, is designed to curb piracy, a prevalent issue among sports viewers. The move follows the release of the Linux-based Fire TV Stick 4K Select, which features enhanced security measures.

Synaptics and Qualcomm Technologies have teamed up to improve fingerprint and touch sensor technologies for mobile devices and PCs, combining Synaptics' human-interface expertise with Qualcomm's computing and biometric security capabilities. The collaboration targets the growing market for flexible OLED displays and sets out to simplify designs for original equipment manufacturers, enhance security and performance and expedite time to market.

Apple is updating its sleep score system for watchOS 26.2 to provide more accurate assessments. The new system will replace the "excellent" score with "very high," and it will be harder to achieve a top score. The updated categories will be very low, low, OK, high and very high.