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An Inventor of Apple's FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain's Health With AI

Jul 15, 2026

Gidi Littwin, a former Apple FaceID engineer, has launched Hemispheric, an AI startup focused on using diagnostic brain scans to help detect conditions such as depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. The company aims to make brain health analysis as affordable and accessible as a blood test.

Why it matters: This approach could make early detection of neurological and psychiatric conditions more widely available.

Full story at: WIRED / AI