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Amazon is making a major change to how its Alexa devices handle user voice data. Starting Friday, the company will disable the privacy feature that previously allowed users to block their voice recordings from being sent to the cloud. This move supports the rollout of its new AI-powered Alexa Plus, which requires all voice requests to be processed through Amazon’s cloud servers.

You are swimming in an ocean of data and don’t even realize it. All around you are invisible amounts of data that would be staggering to try to comprehend. Thousands of smartphones and smart devices are talking to, sending and downloading vast amounts of data, video, audio, words, numbers, images, you name it. Everything from the latest movie on Netflix to someone’s radiology results from a cancer screening.

The next generation of artificial intelligence has arrived at the Big Four firms, promising to upend the core work of their legions of accountants and business consultants.

Spending on nursing homes grew the slowest in January among all areas of healthcare, according to Altarum’s monthly Health Sector Economic Indicators brief, published Wednesday.