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New AI tool for fighting health insurance denials could save hospitals billions, and help patients
The Waystar team celebrates its IPO at the Nasdaq 2024 Nasdaq, Inc. / Vanja Savic Health-care payments company Waystar on Monday announced a new generative artificial intelligence tool that can help hospitals quickly tackle one of their most costly and tedious responsibilities: fighting insurance denials. Hospitals and health systems spend nearly $20 billion a year […]
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This 36-year-old sci-fi ‘nerd’ quit his banking job to start a deep space startup that has raised $24 million
Rohit Jha, 36, is the co-founder and CEO of Transcelestial. Courtesy of Rohit Jha Rohit Jha calls himself a “huge nerd.” He developed a deep love for computers, space and ultimately science fiction in his early years. Jha spent much of his childhood and adolescence coding games on a secondhand computer, star-gazing through a telescope […]
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Britain seeks to build homegrown rival to OpenAI in bid to become world leader in artificial intelligence
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a media interview while attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, U.S. September 25, 2024. Leon Neal | Via Reuters LONDON — The U.K is looking to build a homegrown challenger to OpenAI and drastically increase national computing infrastructure, as Prime […]
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Ahead of looming ban, TikTok creators ask fans to find them on Instagram or YouTube
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Before Jack Nader started posting beauty videos on TikTok in 2023, he was working as a Starbucks barista in Chicago and living at home with his parents. But after Nader, who’s now 21, started taking his videos seriously in April of that year, his TikTok account blew up. […]
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Amazon to halt some of its DEI programs: Internal memo
Amazon is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations that have announced similar moves in the face of increasing public and legal scrutiny. In an internal note last month to staffers obtained by CNBC, Candi Castleberry, Amazon’s VP of inclusive experiences and technology, said the company was […]
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Amazon to shut down ‘Try Before You Buy’ rival to Stitch Fix
Packages with the logo of Amazon are transported at a packing station of a redistribution centre of US online retail giant Amazon in Horn-Bad Meinberg, western Germany, on December 9, 2024. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Amazon is shutting down “Prime Try Before You Buy,” a competitor to Stitch Fix that allowed Prime […]
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Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments on challenge to TikTok ban
Tik Tok creators gather before a press conference to voice their opposition to the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” pending crackdown legislation on TikTok in the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2024. Craig Hudson | Reuters The Supreme Court on Friday will hear oral arguments in […]
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Google donates $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund, joining other tech giants
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit in San Francisco on Nov. 16, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, becoming the latest major tech company to try and curry some goodwill with the incoming administration. “Google is pleased to […]
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Amazon aims to expand advertising business by letting retailers use its ad tools on their stores
BARCELONA, SPAIN – MARCH 2: The Amazon ads logo, the advertising solutions service formerly known as AMD or Amazon Marketing Services, during the Mobile World Congress 2023 on March 2, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Amazon has turned into an online ad juggernaut […]
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EBay shares soar after Meta allows listings on Facebook Marketplace in U.S., Europe
A sign is posted in front of the eBay headquarters in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Shares of eBay soared 12% Wednesday as Meta said it will allow some listings to show up on Facebook Marketplace, its popular platform connecting consumers for local item pickups and more. EBay stock reached its highest […]
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