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How Amazon’s continued expansion into healthcare could buoy the sector

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This deal underscores the value that Big Tech is placing on healthcare and the importance of omnichannel/hybrid (brick-and-mortar in addition to virtual) as well as tech-enabled services,” Shakir told TechCrunch over email. For Deena Shakir, a partner at Lux Capital, the move by Amazon shows the value of healthcare for leading tech companies.

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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

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In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.

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Astronomer ready for its next mission after Datakin acquisition, $213M Series C

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At that time, the scrappy data analytics company had scooped up $3.5 million in funding to develop its tool for what happens after you’ve collected a bunch of data, namely assembling and organizing it so the data can be analyzed. to make data analytics more accessible. Image Credits: Astonomer.