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Oura Is Moving a Menopause Questionnaire From the App Into the Clinic
Oura says 10 healthcare partners will integrate its 22-question Menopause Impact Scale into care. Standardised symptom reports could improve conversations, but a commercial wearable must not become a gatekeeper for menopause treatment.
Texas Ruling Finds TikTok’s Child-Safety Filter Did Not Match Its Promise
A judge found that TikTok misled users about how its Restricted Mode handled content. For girls and all young users, safety settings are meaningful only when parents and teenagers can understand what they actually block—and regulators can test those claims.
Anthropic’s Threat Report Shows AI Scaling Surveillance—and Manufactured Intimacy
Anthropic says users deployed Claude in surveillance operations targeting ethnic, religious and political communities and in dating apps populated by thousands of false personas. The cases show how AI can industrialise coercion and deception even when it does not invent the underlying abuse.
Aydha Mehnaz Is Turning Global Luxury Experience Into a New Advisory Business With a Dhaka Footprint
Bangladeshi-French fashion and brand strategist Aydha Mehnaz has launched Avari, an independent advisory group headquartered in New York with plans to strengthen its presence in Dhaka. It is a reminder that startup ecosystems include businesses built around knowledge, strategy and creative intellectual capital—not only software.
Bangladesh’s ‘Missing Daughter’ Is Back—with a National Programming Contest Built Only for Girls
Bangladesh Open Source Network has revived its Missing Daughter initiative with the Bangladesh Girls Programming Contest 2026, giving school, college, polytechnic and university girls a dedicated route from preliminary rounds to a national final in Dhaka.
A Tesla App Became an Instrument of Coercive Control in an Australian Conviction
Court records show a Sydney woman’s former partner remotely restricted her car’s speed, changed its temperature and controlled access after separation. The case exposes a safety gap in connected products designed around a single powerful account owner.
Australia’s ‘My Feed, My Way’ Plan Would Make Algorithmic Recommendations a Choice
Draft legislation would require platforms to offer users a non-personalised feed and to assess foreseeable harms. The plan could reduce exposure to misogyny and eating-disorder content, but its effectiveness will depend on defaults, enforcement and limits on ministerial power.
UN Rights Chief Demands Hard Limits Before Advanced AI Outruns Oversight
Volker Türk has called for strong global guarantees around advanced AI and warned against control concentrated among a few companies and individuals. A credible safety regime must treat discrimination and gendered digital violence as present harms, not distractions from hypothetical catastrophe.
Australia’s Online-Safety Bill Would Make AI ‘Nudification’ a Design Risk
: Australia is preparing a digital duty of care that would require platforms to assess foreseeable harm in AI and recommender systems. For women and girls targeted by image-based abuse, the crucial shift is from removing one image to preventing a product from enabling the abuse at scale.
Illume Fertility’s Sale Shows Consolidation Reaching the Clinic Door
Canada’s The Fertility Partners has sold five US Illume Fertility offices to the much larger IVI RMA network. Scale may support laboratories and technology, but patients need continuity, price transparency and control over reproductive data during ownership changes.
Tensive Secures €20 Million as New Data Supports Its Bioresorbable Breast Implant
The European Investment Bank is backing Tensive’s bioresorbable scaffold for breast reconstruction after lumpectomy. Clinical findings reported by the company and early peer-reviewed evidence offer encouraging signals on patient satisfaction, imaging and radiotherapy, although longer-term pivotal data and regulatory review are still required.
One in Five Connected Children Faced Tech-Facilitated Sexual Abuse
UNICEF estimates that 20 million internet-using children across 21 countries experienced technology-facilitated sexual exploitation or abuse in one year. Girls’ sexualisation and survivor stigma require specific action, but platforms must stop making children responsible for designing their own safety.
KOVE Raises CHF1.6 Million for an Implant Intended to Make Fetal Surgery Safer
The University of Zurich spin-off is developing a device to seal the fetal membrane after minimally invasive surgery. Funding will move it toward first-in-human testing; effectiveness in patients has not yet been established.
Holifya Raises €2 Million to Combine GLP-1 Care With AI—Evidence Must Scale Too
The women-led Italian health startup is expanding a remote obesity clinic combining medicines, diagnostics and algorithmic monitoring. Investment can build infrastructure, but company-reported outcomes need independent clinical validation.
Auxxo Closes €33.3 Million Fund—and Sets a 20% Ownership Test for Women Founders
Berlin-based Auxxo has completed a larger second fund for European startups with a woman holding a meaningful founding stake. Its terms put capital behind gender inclusion, but ownership thresholds and investment outcomes still require scrutiny.
EU Puts ChatGPT Under Its Strictest Online-Safety Tier—Girls’ Risks Now Belong in the Audit
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT a very large online search engine under the Digital Services Act. The decision creates enforceable risk-assessment duties that should include gendered harassment, sexualised content and harms to minors.
Australia’s Smart-Glasses Warning Makes Consent a Design Requirement
Australia’s online-safety regulator wants smart-glasses manufacturers to blur bystanders automatically and make recording signals tamper-resistant. The proposal responds to technology that can turn women’s ordinary public presence into content without meaningful consent.
UAE Accelerator Promises Women-Led Tech Startups Up to $150,000
Standard Chartered’s UAE Women in Tech programme advertises equity-free funding and investment-readiness support for technology-enabled companies. The published eligibility is detailed, but a current application deadline remains unclear.
$35 Million Preeclampsia Project Will Use AI to Search the ‘Dark Proteome’
ProFound Therapeutics and the Gates Foundation are funding early-stage discovery of biomarkers and drug targets for a dangerous pregnancy complication. The investment is substantial, but it has not yet produced a diagnostic test or treatment.
Meta’s Teen Settlement Creates a New Test for Girls’ Online Safety
Facebook and Instagram will introduce time limits, overnight restrictions and stronger age checks under a proposed US settlement. The reforms cover all teenagers, but their effect on girls must be measured separately.
Monika Henzinger Wins Royal Society Honour for Algorithms and Privacy Research
The Austrian computer scientist’s work connects foundational algorithms with the urgent challenge of protecting data used in AI. Her recognition also makes a highly visible woman part of computing’s historical record.
Global AI Fellowship Gives Bangladeshi Teenage Girls a Chance to Build Their First Product
A free international fellowship for girls aged 13–18 is teaching participants to use AI tools to identify community problems, build websites and launch working projects without requiring previous coding experience.
Woman-Led BOOKR Raises €6.1 Million to Expand Digital Literacy Platform
Budapest-based BOOKR Kids plans to expand its interactive reading platform after securing Series A investment. The company says it serves more than 600,000 paying students in over 30 countries.