Big tech layoffs at Twitter, Amazon and Meta grabbed headlines in 2022; the trend is continuing in 2023 as large tech firms continue to deal with an uncertain economic environment.

Amazon said it plans to cut 18,000 jobs, a bigger number than the e-retailer initially said it would eliminate last year.

Google and DeepMind are lauching MedPaLM, an open-sourced large language model that exclusively addresses medical queries, Tech Times reported Jan. 4. 

Walgreens Boots Alliance reported a $3.7 billion net loss in the first quarter of the 2023 fiscal year ending Nov. 30, a significant drop from $3.6 billion in net income over the same period last year, driven by after-tax charges for opioid-related claims and litigation.

Fifty-two percent of health tech experts surveyed by Health Tech Nerds, an informational platform focusing on healthcare business, said Amazon would be the biggest threat to health systems' core business in 2023.

Software giant Salesforce is cutting nearly 10 percent of its workforce after a COVID-19-fueled hiring boom that saw the company nearly triple its workforce in the past four years, Bloomberg reported Jan. 4.

Amazon obtained an $8 billion unsecured loan after a challenging year in 2022, according to Reuters.

Healthcare company Viatris closed its $415 million acquisition of Oyster Point Pharma and its $280 million acquisition of Famy Life Sciences. 

Elon Musk made headlines with his acquisition of Twitter last year. But what are the odds he buys a healthcare company in 2023? And which one should it be?

In 2022, the tech industry cut 150,000 jobs, compared to the 80,000 tech workers laid off during the COVID-19 shutdown in March to December of 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 3.

Amazon cleared a regulatory hurdle on its path to acquiring One Medical, according to The Seattle Times.

From major acquisitions to dealing with the pharmacist burnout crisis, CVS had a busy 2022. Here the five biggest CVS stories Becker's covered in 2022:

Walmart has emerged as a massive healthcare disruptor and the retail giant made some major healthcare moves in 2022.

Paul Black, the former chief operating officer of Cerner, has invested in Kansas City-based medtech startup Community CareLink, the Kansas City Business Journal reported Dec. 28.

Healthcare disruptors had a busy 2022 as major firms, such as Amazon, entered the healthcare space through mergers and acquisitions. 

GE Healthcare is set to disrupt 2023 as the General Electric business unit plans to spin off into an independent company in the first week of January. In preparation for the spinoff, GE Healthcare had a busy 2022.

Mass layoffs dominated the tech news cycle in 2022. However, a survey from ZipRecruiter found that 79 percent of laid-off tech workers were able to find a new job within three months of beginning their search, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 27.

Johnson & Johnson has acquired medtech company Abiomed for $16.6 billion at $380 per share. Abiomed will now operate as a business unit within J&J's medtech segment.

From the departure of PillPack co-founders to losing its manager of healthcare, Amazon has lost several executives leading its various healthcare ventures.

Fujifilm is acquiring Inspirata, a Florida-based digital pathology business.