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Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of the artificial intelligence that the company previously contributed to an industry partnership to develop a COVID-19 search engine for researchers. Bigstock Photo.

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Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

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Amazon’s “remarkable year,” including its ability to scale up in response to COVID, the leadership transition to new CEO Andy Jassy, new leadership principles and the continued success of Amazon Web Services. And there’s so much at that interface.”

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