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The agreement with the start-up Cerebras is the latest in a series intended to expand the A.I. company’s computing power. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco After signing deals to use computer ...

OpenAI acquired Torch, a healthcare startup that unifies lab results, medications and recordings from doctor visits, as the foundation artificial intelligence model company builds out ChatGPT Health.