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TNB Tech Minute: Microsoft Partners With Harvard on Healthcare AI

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Google announces a $5.8 billion data center investment in Belgium. And Ferrari plans to unveil its first fully electric car in 2026. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

DC politicians want to enact harmful credit card mandates that could take away your cash back and rewards points.

0:08.0

Perks that stretch your budget and make life a little easier.

0:12.1

Losing these benefits means less money for your family's everyday essentials like gas and groceries.

0:18.0

The perks you rely on could disappear, leaving you with higher costs and fewer

0:22.1

options. Tell Congress to guard your card and oppose the Durbin Marshall credit card mandates.

0:28.4

Paid for by Electronic Payments Coalition.

0:32.2

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, October 9th. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.1

We report exclusively that Microsoft has a new collaboration with Harvard Medical School

0:44.0

that will first be reflected in the release of a major update to its AI assistant,

0:48.6

co-pilot, as soon as this month. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

0:53.4

The new version of

0:54.2

copilot will draw an information from the Harvard Health Publishing arm to respond to questions

0:59.0

about health care topics. The arrangement is an attempt by Microsoft to overtake some of its

1:04.0

more advanced rivals in AI and not lean as much on its partnership with the maker of chat GPT,

1:10.0

OpenAI. Google says it'll invest

1:13.1

$5 billion, that's about $5.8 billion, into Belgium over the next two years. It's the latest

1:20.4

big funding push from a U.S. tech giant building up its data center infrastructure in Europe.

1:25.4

Google said it'll scale up its data center facility in St.

1:28.2

Geelaine, adding 300 full-time jobs to its existing workforce of around 600 employees.

1:34.3

The investment will go towards the use of AI, improve Google's ability to meet rising demand

1:38.8

for Google Cloud, and help power services like Google Search, Maps, and Workspace.

1:51.3

And Ferrari is rolling out details on its plan to release its first fully electric vehicle in 2026.

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