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Family offices still bet on AI and health care even as deals slow down
Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth […]
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Amazon launches prescription vending machines at One Medical clinics in Los Angeles
Amazon is launching prescription drug kiosks at some One Medical offices in Los Angeles, the company announced Wednesday, in a move that could disrupt brick-and-mortar pharmacy businesses. The kiosks are operated by Amazon Pharmacy and work similar to a vending machine, disbursing prescriptions for patients “within minutes” of their doctor visit, the company said. Each […]
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Anthropic to open first India office as rival OpenAI boosts presence in the country
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Anthropic on Wednesday said it plans to open its first office in India, entering a market where artificial intelligence usage is growing and its rival OpenAI is already making headway. The Amazon-backed AI firm, valued at $183 billion, said it plans to open an office in Bengaluru in […]
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Anthropic lands its biggest enterprise deployment ever with Deloitte deal
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Deloitte on Monday announced a deal to bring Anthropic’s artificial intelligence assistant Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees around the globe. The rollout will be Anthropic’s largest enterprise deployment ever, building on a partnership that the two companies first unveiled last year. Deloitte, which offers consulting, […]
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Lyft CEO left Microsoft in the 90s to join a tiny startup called Amazon—here’s how Jeff Bezos convinced him
In 1996, David Risher told Bill Gates he was quitting his management role at Microsoft, then already one of the world’s largest companies with annual revenue of nearly $8.7 billion, to take a job at a “tiny, little bookstore online,” called Amazon. “It wasn’t an entirely rational move,” Risher, who is now CEO of Lyft, […]
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From data to culture: How international brands are trying to crack the code on the fickle Chinese consumer
Key Points The allure of the world’s second-largest consumer market is forcing Western companies to adapt in the face of growing competition from Chinese brands. In the last two years, adapting to the local social media ecosystem of Xiaohongshu and Douyin has become a path to quick success, according to Stephy Liu, founder of a […]
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