TechCrunch Daily Crunch Amazon expands program that lets customers shop from other retailers’ sites
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Mar 12, 2026 Amazon is linking its site to other retailers so shoppers can buy across stores without leaving its platform. A new healthcare AI rollout on Amazon’s apps and privacy training claims get attention. TikTok now supports full Apple Music playback and a social Listening Party feature. Google’s big Wiz acquisition and a new electric medium-duty truck also make the news.
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Amazon Rolls Out Health AI Broadly
- Amazon expanded Health AI beyond One Medical to the wider Amazon website and app for non-Prime and non-One Medical users.
- The assistant can answer questions, manage prescriptions, book appointments, and uses abstracted patterns for training rather than direct IDs.
Privacy Tradeoffs With Health AI Training
- Researchers warn about sharing health data with AI because companies may use conversations for training.
- Amazon says it trains on abstracted patterns (e.g., aggregated medication interaction questions) to avoid using directly identifying information.
TikTok Lets Apple Music Play Full Songs
- TikTok integrated Apple Music so subscribers can tap Play Full Song to open an Apple Music player inside TikTok.
- The feature uses Apple's Music Kit so streams register and pay within Apple Music, and a new Listening Party adds real-time social sessions.