Disruptors

Amazon opened a 1,800-square-foot convenience store in Seattle Monday without cashiers or registers, The New York Times reports.

Google unveiled the first class of startups for its artificial intelligence-focused accelerator, called Google Developers Launchpad Studio, according to a Nov. 1 company blog post.

While many analysts predicted CVS Health is in talks to buy Aetna to stay ahead of Amazon, industry experts are now attributing the proposed merger to another competitor — UnitedHealth Group, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Apple's mobile devices could become a major artificial intelligence platform in the future, COO Jeff Williams said at an event in Taipei, Taiwan Monday, according to Reuters.

London-based artificial intelligence company DeepMind, which is owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, is training its software to fold proteins for drug discovery, reports Bloomberg.

Michael Howell, MD, joined Google Research as the division's chief clinical strategist earlier this month, a Google spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review via email.

DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence arm, launched an ethics and society research unit to evaluate its breakthroughs in AI science and application, according to a company blog post.

Apple is looking for a software engineer with a background in counseling or psychology to help design functions for its digital voice assistant, Siri, according to a job description on the company's website.

Amazon and Microsoft are partnering to integrate their two voice-powered digital assistants, reports CNBC.

In a whitepaper, Big Bang Health highlights how the fragmented healthcare system often does not meet many employer's needs and how Big Bang Health Mission Control is working to change that.