TTA’s Autumn Leaves: Oura puts off IPO, Anthropic’s IPO November (?); Sycamore Partners nearing Boots sale; telehealth support for pediatricians in youth mental health, Oracle’s Congressional spanking, more!

2-5 October 2026

Here we are past the first week of Fall (or Autumn). The leaves may be turning, but the healthcare/AI  IPOs aren’t, with the Oura health monitoring ring postponing its IPO indefinitely and the Anthropic AI rumored only for early-to-mid-November. Another turning is for Boots, with Sycamore Partners breaking up the Walgreens Boots Alliance combine for $9 billion. And this week’s Perspectives discusses the burden pediatricians are taking on in youth mental health and how telehealth can support this need.

For Readers: Your Editor will be on publishing leave due to travel to 21 October. ‘Best Of’ Alerts will be out weekly on Fridays and Saturdays after this week till then. Some past highlights:

• Humanity’s Rumored Doom in 10 years at the hands of AI are Zebras, not Horses.
• Oracle’s simultaneous strong Q1, 3,000 layoffs, and its two top execs subpoenaed by the House VA Committee for a whacking over the 170% increase in budget to cover the next three years (Congress is Fed Up).
• How infrastructure tech needed by healthcare organizations can’t get arrested on funding, while whiz-bang consumer apps can.

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IPOs, IPOs–Oura’s stalls out, Anthropic’s restarts, possibly mid-November. To everyone’s amazement!

Developing: Walgreens’ Sycamore Partners owner on final approach to sell Boots operation to Canada’s Weston family for ~$9B

Perspectives: What Meta’s settlement reveals about youth mental health, access shortages, and where telehealth can support pediatricians

More of Interest 

Oracle’s continued restructuring cuts 3K more jobs, adds $700 million while revenue grows 30%; House VA Committee subpoenas Ellison, Sicilia 19-0–and why Congress is mad at a 170% budget increase (Updated for how Congress really feels)

(Related) Revealed: Oracle’s extended VA EHRM contract increased by $17B as original ceiling reached this year; VA Indy EHR goes online

AI’s hoofbeats as Horses, not Zebras: a Gimlety view of AI’s destructive capacity (updated) (P(doom) may be conquered by F(doom), or Why Worry?

Perspectives: Digital Health Capital Keeps Rewarding What Patients See, Not What Keeps Companies Alive (Infrastructure tech can’t get funding)

Silicon Valley Bank’s take on H1 investment: among the “have and have nots”, it was “the best half in years” for health tech

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