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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: World’s First Crispr Drug Approved by FDA

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: X eyes a partnership to bring Amazon businesses in as advertisers. And U.K. regulators examine the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. Alex Ossola hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Cracken.

0:03.0

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0:06.0

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0:08.0

what you look like, your credit score,

0:10.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.0

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0:17.0

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0:21.0

To learn more, don't invest in as you're prepared to lose all the money

0:24.9

you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something

0:28.9

goes wrong.

0:31.4

Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Friday, December 8th.

0:35.0

I'm Alex Osila for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.0

This is our new afternoon roundup of the day's big tech headlines.

0:41.0

The US has approved the world's first medicine

0:44.6

employing the gene editing technology CRISPR. The new treatment called

0:48.3

Cass Jevi, developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR therapeapeutics was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration

0:54.6

for treatment of people with sickle cell disease.

0:58.1

We exclusively report that X, formerly Twitter, has discussed a potential partnership with Amazon that would make

1:04.0

X ads available through Amazon's ad-buying software.

1:07.6

That's according to people familiar with the matter.

1:10.0

This deal, if reached, could draw in some of the millions of small and mid-sized businesses that sell items on Amazon and buy ads through its tools, the people said.

1:18.0

And Britain's antitrust watchdog said it's examining the relationship between Microsoft and Open AI.

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