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Good morning, 730 on Wall Street. I'm Michael McKee, along with Tom King.

We're two hours away from the start of what looks like at the moment at least a higher open on Wall Street.

And news we're watching in the corporate sector.

Appa Amazon testing a new service to make it easier for businesses to run artificial intelligence software on computers

rented from the company.

An example of Amazon chasing rather than leading.

That's kind of rare.

Google's already got something like that.

IBM, Microsoft, and others have already also put some of that together.

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