SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 8, 2026--
Today, Rune Labs announced the launch of a personalized AI companion to provide always-on support for people with Parkinson’s disease. Powered by Anthropic's Claude and built on Rune Labs' proprietary longitudinal dataset, comprising millions of hours of wearable data and FDA-cleared symptom algorithms, StrivePD Guardian continuously analyzes patients' real-time data to deliver timely, context-aware guidance on symptoms, medications, daily experiences, and care goals.
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“People with Parkinson’s live with symptoms that change hour-to-hour,” said Amy Franzen, CEO of Rune Labs. “StrivePD Guardian provides support in those moments, translating continuous symptom changes into clearer understanding, better management, and more productive clinical visits.”
Unlike general-purpose AI tools, StrivePD Guardian uses an agentic system built specifically for Parkinson's disease. Each message is automatically routed in real-time to a specialized, domain-trained assistant with curated medical-grade content, allowing the system to deliver relevant, precise responses without requiring patients to navigate menus or select tools.
StrivePD Guardian’s coordinated set of specialized agents includes:
“It’s like having a conversation with my own StrivePD data. The monthly AI reports help me step back and see the bigger picture, and the StrivePD Guardian chat helps me day to day. I can ask questions, get quick answers, all grounded in what I’ve logged,” said Kevin K., a StrivePD Guardian user. “I’ve asked it to review my many unique symptoms and their fluctuations and trends, and prepare me for what to discuss with my clinician.”
StrivePD Guardian becomes more helpful over time through adaptive intelligence, learning from wearable-derived symptom data, medication logs, chats, journal entries, and user-defined goals. This continuously updated patient profile enables personalized, meaningful support without adding burden to patients or care teams.
“With StrivePD Guardian, we designed a conversational interface grounded in years of clinical and real-world data collected from users,” said William Newby, Vice President of Product and Strategy at Rune Labs. “Because StrivePD Guardian is trained on our continuous wearable datasets, it can interpret 'off times' and dyskinesia with a level of precision that general-purpose AI models simply cannot achieve. We’re connecting abstract symptoms with objective physiological patterns.”
Rune Labs developed StrivePD Guardian with clinical oversight and safety at its core. It uses cautious, supportive language and urgent symptom guidance that directs patients to contact a clinician or seek emergency care when necessary. These safeguards are designed to support use within established care pathways and oversight frameworks, helping clinicians and payers integrate the technology with confidence.
StrivePD Guardian is now available for everybody. Patients can download StrivePD Guardian from the App Store, and existing StrivePD users can upgrade within the app. AI chat access may vary based on plan. For providers, StrivePD Guardian can also be offered through partner programs to support ongoing monitoring, engagement, and care coordination.
About Rune Labs
Rune Labs is a precision neurology company focused on supporting care delivery and therapy development using the most advanced AI and FDA-cleared algorithms. StrivePD is the company's care delivery ecosystem, which started in Parkinson's disease, empowering patients and their clinicians to take control and better manage their care by providing access to insights based on summarized data to improve treatment decisions, enhance disease management and connect patients to clinical trials. For therapeutic development, biopharma and medical device companies leverage Rune Labs’ technology, extensive network of engaged clinicians and patients, and large longitudinal real-world datasets to expedite development programs. For more information, please visit runelabs.io and strive.group.
Examples of StrivePD Guardian messages.
PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic placed ice packs around his neck and on top of his head during changeovers to keep cool amid the Paris heat wave at the French Open on Wednesday.
The 39-year-old Djokovic was pushed by 74th-ranked French player Valentin Royer — who is 15 years younger than him — for more than 3½ hours before he reached the third round with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (7), 6-3 victory.
For the fourth straight day of this year’s tournament, the temperature rose beyond 32 degrees Celsius (90 Fahrenheit).
When Djokovic won a key point early in the fourth set with a forehand that he whipped around the net post from far off the court, the 24-time Grand Slam champion waved his arms toward the crowd inside Court Philippe-Chatrier.
Djokovic wasted a chance to close the match out earlier when he missed a backhand long in the third-set tiebreaker then required four more match points in his final service game before a forehand from Royer finally landed in the net to conclude a long rally.
Before arriving in Paris, Royer had earned only one tour-level win across 11 tournaments he played this season.
Djokovic came to Roland Garros with questions over his form after getting beat in his only clay-court match before the tournament. He lost to Croatian qualifier Dino Prizmic at the Italian Open after two months out due to a right shoulder injury.
But Djokovic is playing himself back into form after coming back from a set down to beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, another Frenchman, in a first-round match that lasted nearly three hours.
Djokovic improved to 14-0 in his career against Frenchmen at Roland Garros and reached the third round in Paris for a 21st straight year. He raised the Coupe des Mousquetaires trophy in 2016, 2021 and 2023.
One duo of Djokovic fans inside the main stadium held up a sign with a goat on it — for “Greatest of All Time” — that read “39 is the new 29.”
Up next for Djokovic is potentially a bigger test against either 19-year-old Brazilian Joao Fonseca or the 20-year-old Prizmic, who were playing later. Fonseca has been touted as a future Grand Slam contender, while Djokovic himself pointed to big things ahead for Prizmic after their meeting in Rome.
Later, second-seeded Alexander Zverev was playing Tomas Machac in the night session.
Elena Rybakina, this year’s Australian Open winner, was beaten by Ukrainian opponent Yuliia Starodubtseva 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4).
Also advancing were in-form Ukrainians Elina Svitolina and Marta Kostyuk, who are coming off trophies at the Madrid Open and Italian Open, respectively.
The seventh-seeded Svitolina beat Kaitlin Quevedo 6-0, 6-4 to extend her winning streak to eight matches. The 15th-seeded Kostyuk beat Katie Volynets 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3 to extend her winning streak to 13 matches.
Four-time champion Iga Swiatek improved her career record at Roland Garros to 42-3 by eliminating 35th-ranked Sara Bejlek 6-2, 6-3.
Swiatek won Roland Garros in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Swiatek next faces Magda Linette in the first all-Polish meeting at Roland Garros in the professional era (since 1968). Linette eliminated 2017 champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.
Also, 11th-seeded Belinda Bencic beat American opponent Caty McNally 6-4, 6-0.
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Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts as he plays against Valentin Royer of France during their second round men's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Valentin Royer of France returns to Novak Djokovic of Serbia during their second round men's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Novak Djokovic of Serbia cools himself with the ice during a break of the second round men's singles tennis match against Valentin Royer of France at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns to Valentin Royer of France during their second round men's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Yuliia Starodubtseva of Ukraine serves to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan during their second round women's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan returns to Yuliia Starodubtseva of Ukraine during their second round women's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Yuliia Starodubtseva of Ukraine reacts as she plays against Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan during their second round women's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan returns to Yuliia Starodubtseva of Ukraine during their second round women's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after winning the first round men's singles tennis match against against Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of France at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)
Elina Svitolina of Ukraine returns to Kaitlin Quevedo of Spain during their second round women's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Sara Bejlek of the Czech Republic returns to Iga Swiatek of Poland during their second round women's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Iga Swiatek of Poland returns to Sara Bejlek of the Czech Republic during their second round women's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Iga Swiatek of Poland returns to Sara Bejlek of the Czech Republic during their second round women's singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
