The Latest News, Headlines, and Business Stories for December 28

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This biotech startup is finding new cancer drugs with $75 million from General Catalyst. Here’s the pitch deck Georgiamune used to raise its Series A. E-prescription company Surescripts has hired a bank to find potential buyers, including private equity firms. Organizations are turning toward cloud technologies to build a connected healthcare ecosystem and accelerate innovation.

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4 Day Week Global is a nonprofit community platform that promotes the four-day workweek by helping companies implement it and by funding research into the future of work. The organization was established after the success of a landmark trial program at its cofounder Andrew Barnes’ New Zealand company Perpetual Guardian. To conduct trials at companies and analyze their results, the group has partnered with academics at Harvard Business School, Oxford University, and the University of Pennsylvania. But the founders Sinéad Crowther and Denise Lauaki had high hopes.

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Gil Perez, the bank’s chief innovation officer, said the German lender wants to at least double its AI employee base of about 300 in the next 12 months. But challenges, including determining the tech’s ROI, remain. “People don’t use Google because they have to — they use it because they want to,” Google’s president of global affairs, Kent Walker, told Hugh in a statement.

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  • On a recent Wednesday, Merchan accepted one man’s plea and inducted them into the mental health court.
  • Under the changes, starting from March, coverage of Australia and Asia’s business markets will come from the publication’s Asia-Pacific bureau in Singapore.
  • However, the person said the Copilot upgrade to Microsoft 365 did save time by summarizing meetings and long email threads with a reasonable degree of reliability.
  • Small mental-health practices are running out of money and at risk of closing.

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While adopters of a four-day workweek might be primarily seeking a business impact — in revenue or employee well-being — there could also be less-obvious benefits. Staffing agency Randstad’s study found 39% of people don’t want promotions since they’re happy in their jobs. New salary data reveals how much TikTok and its parent company ByteDance pay employees on work visas in the US and gives insight into pay levels. Business-travel experts say companies should offer employees stays at hotels with WiFi, food service, a spa, a fitness center, and nearby attractions.

  • US stocks have shattered expectations so far this year, and Morgan
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