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PLUS: Alphabet’s Insurance Exit – What’s Next?

February 07, 2025

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What we’ll cover today:

⚡ Amazon’s $100B AI & cloud spending spree

🏥 Alphabet’s Verily sells its insurance biz—why now?

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Verily, Alphabet's life sciences branch, is selling its insurance company, Granular, to Elevance Health to boost its growth.

🚨Breaking News:
Verily is handing over Granular Insurance to Elevance Health, aiming to enhance services for self-funded employers.

⚡Wire Simplified:

  • Granular offers stop-loss insurance to help employers manage healthcare costs.

  • Verily launched Granular in 2020 to use data science in insurance.

  • Elevance Health is a major U.S. health insurance company.

  • The deal's financial details are not public.

  • Verily is focusing more on artificial intelligence projects.

✔️Straight to the Point:
Verily is selling Granular to Elevance Health, hoping to improve employer healthcare plans and concentrate on AI innovations.

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Amazon plans to spend over $100 billion in 2025, mainly to boost its cloud services and artificial intelligence capabilities.

🚨Breaking News:
Amazon is investing heavily in AI and cloud infrastructure, aiming to stay ahead in the tech race.

⚡Wire Simplified:

  • Amazon's cloud service is called Amazon Web Services (AWS).

  • AWS helps companies run applications and store data online.

  • AI stands for artificial intelligence, like smart computers.

  • Amazon's spending will focus on building more data centers.

  • Other tech giants are also investing big in AI.

✔️Straight to the Point:
Amazon is pouring money into AI and cloud services to enhance technology and keep up with competitors.

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Deep Research from OpenAI seems like the most interesting AI product advance in a while. I'm really liking the outputs I'm getting so far.

I wonder how much of the advance is about real-time access to the complete text of web pages, and how much is about more extensive CoT.

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DOGE is unlike other government departments in that its performance can be precisely measured. How much smaller is the federal budget next year? If Elon can cut the budget by 5% I'll be impressed.

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