Medicare proposes removing limit on PET scans used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease
Medicare’s proposal to cover PET scans for Alzheimer’s would make it easier for patients to access new drugs like Leqembi.
Johnson & Johnson sues Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations
Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and PhRMA filed separate lawsuits against the provision last month.
Meta and Qualcomm team up to run big A.I. models on phones
Large language models (LLMs) are the technology that underpin applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT that can return out text that resembles human output.
Microsoft stock pops after it announces $30 per month A.I. subscription for Microsoft 365
Microsoft will charge users an additional $30 per month for the use of generative AI with tools such as Teams, Excel and Word.
Amazon sees decline in carbon emissions for the first time
Emissions are still up roughly 40% from 2019, the year Amazon first began disclosing its carbon footprint.
Microsoft goes beyond OpenAI, makes Meta’s new A.I. model available to Azure customers
Meta’s new artificial intelligence language model, dubbed Llama 2, will be available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing service.
U.S. blacklists two firms that built Meta, iOS and Android spyware
The firms, Cytrox and Intellexa, sold products to foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies and deployed tools against tens of thousands of Meta users.
Novartis stock jumps after drugmaker raises full-year guidance, launches $15 billion buyback
Novartis raised its guidance and announced the buybacks as the Swiss drugmaker reported second-quarter earnings, which topped Wall Street’s expectations.
These stocks win when the U.S. dollar falls, as it’s doing in July
A weaker dollar means the exports of some companies are now cheaper for their buyers overseas, and profits earned abroad are worth more at home.
Microsoft’s Bing Chat A.I. bot now lets you search using images
Users can now take or upload a photo to Bing Chat and ask for more information on it via desktop or the Bing app.
