NACS TruAge enhances age-verification systems at all retail points of sale and protects user privacy
Your phone or computer may soon ask how old you are
California's Digital Age Assurance Act forces Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android to collect age brackets from January 2027, with open-source exemptions pending.
California's Digital Age Assurance Act, signed in October 2025, requires major operating systems to collect user age brackets (under 13, 13-15, 16-17, 18+) and share non-identifying age signals with app developers starting January 1, 2027, with existing setups complying by July 1, 2027. AB1856, passed in late August 2026, would exempt open-source operating systems under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses and awaits the governor's signature. Colorado, Illinois, and New York have similar age assurance measures, and the EFF has criticized the law for privacy and censorship concerns.
AI-designed drug appears to turn back the body's biological clock in early trial
Insilico Medicine's AI-designed drug rentosertib showed reduced predicted biological age in IPF trial blood analysis, published in Nature Biotechnology.
Insilico Medicine reported that rentosertib, an AI-designed drug candidate in Phase III trials for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, showed reduced predicted biological age in blood protein analysis of 42 trial patients. Six independent aging-clock models built by teams at Harvard, Oxford, Beijing, and Insilico all predicted lower biological age versus placebo, with drops of three to four years by week 4 and up to six years on one clock. The drug targets TNIK and was developed with two generative AI systems in about 18 months; Eli Lilly recently invested in the company. Experts including Eric Topol and Harvard's Vadim Gladyshev called the results encouraging but not definitive, citing small sample size.