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Big tech companies invest billions in health research

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They use proprietary data to understand human disease, while funding data science and brain research to support their AI ambitions

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Webster, P. Big tech companies invest billions in health research. Nat Med 29, 1034–1037 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02290-y

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