Wellness companies eager to avoid WeightWatchers’ fate embrace weight-loss drugs

    By Amina Niasse and Nicholas P. Brown NEW YORK (Reuters) -Health and wellness companies are embracing weight-loss drugs and building offerings around them in an effort to avoid the fate of WeightWatchers, which declared bankruptcy this week, citing vastly increased use of the new blockbuster medicines. But some of WeightWatchers’ closest rivals, newer telehealth companies,…

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      Anthropic says DOJ proposal in Google search case could chill AI investment

      By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice’s proposals to increase competition against Alphabet’s Google in online search could chill artificial intelligence investments, AI startup and Google partner Anthropic said on Friday. Requiring Google to give the DOJ advance notice of its proposed AI investments and partnerships would create a “significant disincentive” for…

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