Oura agrees to buy Counsel Health, a physician-supervised care service

A quiet day, led by Oura, which wants to bring a doctor service into its app and also gave its Advisor a planning feature. AMD says its next server processors are shipping.

Oura agrees to buy Counsel Health

Oura has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Counsel Health, a care platform in which medical AI is supervised by board-certified physicians. The two companies have worked together since May 2026, and members can already try Counsel in Oura Labs. Oura says the aim is to let members get answers from a licensed physician inside the Oura app, with Oura Ring data shared only with the member’s permission.

Oura expects the deal to close near the end of this year. It gives no price and no European plans: the figures in its announcement are American, and it mentions only a local emergency number for outside the US. Counsel will keep working with health plans and health systems too.

Source: Oura

Oura Advisor now builds short personal plans

Oura Advisor can now turn a goal such as feeling more rested into a plan. It asks up to three questions about things the ring cannot measure, then offers two or three options. A plan lasts up to seven days, and you check in with a yes or no on the Today tab. Only one Advisor plan can be active at a time, though a Jet Lag Plan can run alongside it.

Plans are rolling out gradually on iOS and Android for members with an Oura Ring Gen3 or newer, on app version 7.30.0 or later. Oura says they work only when the app language is English, so Dutch and other European languages have to wait. The company calls it general wellness guidance, not medical advice, and says Advisor will not make diet, workout, weight-loss or medication plans.

Source: Oura

AMD says 6th Gen EPYC servers are shipping

AMD announced general availability of its 6th Gen EPYC SP7 server processors, built on the Zen 6 architecture. Servers with the chips are shipping from server makers, and Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances are due soon. Meta is a lead customer and is validating platforms before a larger rollout. AMD says the high-frequency host-node models reach up to 5.3 GHz.

The performance claims are AMD’s own. It says a system with the EPYC 9996 delivers up to 2.2x the performance of an Intel Xeon 6980P system and up to 3.7x that of an Nvidia Vera system. A footnote lists a 1Ku price of $14,904 for the EPYC 9996, a US figure for large-volume orders. These are data-centre parts, and AMD gives no European pricing.

Source: AMD