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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: US to fund 1 billion more Covid-19 vaccines; ex-Googlers’ Arbo Works gets Sequoia funding; plus, Sri Ambati on his open-source AI movement
Description: US President Joe Biden’s administration is offering funding to drug companies including Pfizer and Moderna to expand mRNA Covid-19 vaccine capacity by a billion doses by the second half of 2022, Bloomberg reports. Announced on Wednesday, the plan is also aimed at building the capacity to address any future pandemic, according to Bloomberg.
Oxfam and others have accused the world’s biggest drug companies of profiteering by selling to rich countries as most people in low-income countries around the world haven’t been fully vaccinated.
Arbo Works, a fintech company started by eight former Google execut...