{"id":250873,"date":"2026-01-22T01:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/250873\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:26:40","slug":"slingshot-pulls-therapy-chatbot-ash-out-of-uk-over-regulatory-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/250873\/","title":{"rendered":"Slingshot pulls therapy chatbot Ash out of UK over regulatory concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-bio\">Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech\u2019s promise. He\u2019s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/health-tech\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STAT Health Tech newsletter<\/a>. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.<\/p>\n<p>Slingshot AI will withdraw its therapy chatbot app Ash from the United Kingdom this week over concerns that it runs afoul of the country\u2019s medical device regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Slingshot CEO Daniel Reid Cahn wrote in an email to users that \u201cthere isn\u2019t a clear regulatory pathway for wellbeing products like ours \u2014 and without that clarity, we can\u2019t operate with confidence.\u201d He said the app will not be available after Jan. 23 and that the company is in conversations with the government on a remedy. Representatives for Slingshot did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Slingshot, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/22\/slingshot-new-investors-generative-ai-mental-health-therapy-chatbot-called-ash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raised $93 million<\/a> from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, has been among the most aggressive to push out a large language model-based mental health product to consumers amid broad concern that generative artificial intelligence chatbots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/02\/ai-psychosis-delusions-explained-folie-a-deux\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can be dangerous for people with mental health issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-text\">STAT+ Exclusive Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-login\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"restricted-content-breaker-bg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/stat-plus-breaker-bg.png\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stat-plus-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/stat\/images\/stat-plus-logo-white.svg\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThis article is exclusive to STAT+ subscribers<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tUnlock this article \u2014 and get additional analysis of the technologies disrupting health care \u2014 by subscribing to STAT+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-breaker-wrapper-cta mobile\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta mobile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tIndividual plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGroup plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button view-all\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker view all plans\" aria-label=\"View All Plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View All Plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTo read the rest of this story subscribe to STAT+.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button restricted-button\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker subscribe cta 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[343,163,3239,521,85,46,15830],"class_list":{"0":"post-250873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-tech","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-stat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}