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WSJ Tech News Briefing
Tech News Briefing is your guide to what people in tech are talking about. Every weekday, we’ll bring you breaking tech news and scoops from the pros at the Wall Street Journal, insight into new innovations and policy debates, tips from our personal tech team, and exclusive interviews with movers and shakers in the industry.
Episodes
- WSJ Tech News Briefing
TNB Tech Minute: AI Bubble Fears Resurface, Bring Down Market
Plus: Bitcoin is on pace for its worst monthly performance since 2022. And a look at generative AI in Canada. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an…
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TNB Tech Minute: Verizon Begins its Largest-Ever Round of Layoffs
Plus: Investors breathe a sigh of relief after Nvidia reports record sales. And Major League Baseball signs new rights deals with ESPN, NBCU, and Netflix. Zoe…
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TNB Tech Minute: Nvidia Reports Record Sales
Plus: Nvidia, xAI and Saudi Arabia’s Humain partner to develop a data center in Saudi Arabia. And the EU plans to change tech laws to boost innovation. Julie…
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TNB Tech Minute: Elon Musk’s xAI in Talks to Raise $15 Billion
Plus: Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI’s board after correspondence with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released. And the Dutch government hands back…
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TNB Tech Minute: Meta Beats FTC’s Antitrust Case
Plus: Nvidia and Microsoft will invest $15 billion in Anthropic. Google launches Gemini 3. And fears of an AI bubble hit the stock market. Julie Chang hosts…
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TNB Tech Minute: Cloudflare Outage Knocks X, ChatGPT and More Offline
Plus: OpenAI and Intuit strike a multiyear partnership. And Lambda raises over $1.5 billion in its latest funding round. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Hosted by…
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Don’t Want to Use AI? You’re Fired
Companies are firing workers who aren’t sufficiently on-board with the AI revolution. The Wall Street Journal’s Lindsay Ellis explains what this hardline…
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TNB Tech Minute: Harvard Has $443 Million in Crypto
Plus: South Korean tech stocks rise after national conglomerates pledge billions in domestic investments. And a venture firm that exclusively invests in legal…
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TNB Tech Minute: XPeng Within Striking Distance of Profitability
Plus: Prosus expects Tencent to drive earnings growth. And Johnson & Johnson agrees to buy Halda Therapeutics for just over $3 billion. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts…
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TNB Tech Minute: Google Proposes Ad Tech Changes to EU After $3.4 Billion Fine
Plus: A tough week for the crypto market. And Jaguar Land Rover slumps to quarterly loss after cyberattack. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz…
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TNB Tech Minute: Amazon and Microsoft Back Law That Would Limit Nvidia’s Exports to China
Plus: SAP makes concessions to alleviate competition concerns in the EU. And the robotaxi race revs up in London. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an…
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The Secret Plan to Create Genetically Engineered Babies
A Silicon Valley startup, backed by high-profile investors, has looked into ways to evade U.S. bans and create a child born from a genetically edited embryo…
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TNB Tech Minute: Anthropic’s AI Used by Chinese Hackers in Cyberattacks
Plus: Baidu unveils new AI chips. Disney’s streaming services see subscriber growth. And Verizon plans to cut about 15,000 jobs. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by…
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TNB Tech Minute: EU Investigates Google over Publishers’ Ranking Policy
Plus: Harbinger Motors raises $160 million and secures an order from FedEx. And AI startup Cursor raises an additional $2.3 billion. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Hosted…
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TNB Tech Minute: Toyota Plans $14 Billion North Carolina Battery Plant
Plus: Coinbase will leave Delaware and reincorporate in Texas. And Synopsys will lay off about 10% of its workforce. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast…
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TNB Tech Minute: Autonomous-Truck Company Einride To Go Public
Plus: Infineon shares jump after forecasting a return to sales growth on booming AI demand. And Foxconn plans to collaborate with OpenAI. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts…
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TNB Tech Minute: South Korean Data Center To Be Designed, Built and Run by AI
Plus: China considers a plan to send rare earths to the U.S., but keep them out of the U.S. military suppliers. And tech companies and Wall Street are finding…
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TNB Tech Minute: CoreWeave’s Third Quarter Revenue More Than Doubled
Plus: Microsoft says it will invest more than $10 billion to expand AI infrastructure in Portugal. And SoftBank sells its stake in Nvidia for $5.8 billion. Zoe…
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Inside the AI Cold War Between the U.S. and China
Despite falling behind the U.S. in some key areas, Wall Street Journal senior global correspondent Josh Chin reports that China is quickly catching up in the…
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TNB Tech Minute: TSMC Reports Slowest Sales Since Early 2024
Plus: Instacart reported higher third-quarter revenue and profit. And a group of Democratic senators scrutinize higher electric bills, partly attributing them…
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TNB Tech Minute: Rumble to Acquire Northern Data in Up to $970 Million Deal
Plus: Israeli spyware maker NSO Group gets new owners. And Coinbase Global launches a new platform for digital token offerings. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Hosted by…
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TNB Tech Minute: Nasdaq’s Worst Week Since April
Plus: Shares of Take-Two fall after the company delays the release of “Grand Theft Auto VI.” And Anthropic expands with new offices in Europe. Julie Chang…
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TNB Tech Minute: Seven Lawsuits Allege ChatGPT Led to User Harm, Suicide
Plus: Honda cuts guidance due to slumping car sales and the Nexperia chip shortage. And the EU could implement changes to its Artificial Intelligence Act. Zoe…
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Ford’s ‘Modern Model T’ May Be Heading to the EV Scrapyard
Ford is thinking of scrapping the electric version of its F-150 pickup, once hailed as a ‘smartphone that can tow.’ WSJ reporter Sharon Terlep explains why the…
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TNB Tech Minute: Tesla Shareholders Approve Record-Setting Pay for Elon Musk
Plus: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the startup doesn’t want federal guarantees for a bailout if it fails. And Ford considers scrapping its electric F-150. Julie…
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TNB Tech Minute: Microsoft Plans to Develop AI Self-Sufficiency From OpenAI
Plus: CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator rejects Wall Street’s concerns of an AI bubble. And all eyes are on Tesla as investors wait to see if Elon Musk’s pay…
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TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Not Yet Working Toward an IPO
Plus: A new computer from Quantinuum has arrived. And XPeng aims to launch robotaxis in China next year. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz…
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TNB Tech Minute: Following Tech Rout, U.S. Markets Stabilize
Plus: Tech companies turn to smaller power equipment manufacturers to power data centers. And the Motion Picture Association sends Meta a cease-and-desist over…
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TNB Tech Minute: Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom to Build AI Factory in Germany
Plus: AMD reports sharp increases in profit and sales. Rivian Automotive records a jump in third-quarter revenue. And Nintendo boosts guidance for the full…
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TNB Tech Minute: Anthropic Signs Cognizant in Enterprise Deal
Plus: Spotify adds subscribers in the third quarter. And Uber logs higher quarterly profit and revenue. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz…
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How Amazon’s Data Hubs Are Transforming Small-Town America
Rural parts of the country are getting an economic boost thanks to the construction of giant data centers. WSJ reporter David Uberti visits Umatilla, Oregon to…
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TNB Tech Minute: Rare-Earth Magnet Startups Secure Deals With White House
Plus: Microsoft secures new computing power capacity in deal with data center company IREN. And Palantir Technologies reports another quarter of record…
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TNB Tech Minute: Open AI, Amazon Enter First Cloud Partnership
Plus: Microsoft gets U.S. approval to export Nvidia chips to the United Arab Emirates. And European automaker shares rise on optimism that a semiconductor…
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TNB Tech Minute: Microsoft Earnings Indicate OpenAI Suffered a $12 Billion Loss Last Quarter
Plus: The flurry of Silicon Valley companies trying to build AI data centers is flooding debt markets. And Charter Communications profits fell in the…
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TNB Tech Minute: SpaceX Set to Develop Satellites in $2 Billion Pentagon Deal
Plus: Nvidia strikes a number of deals with some of South Korea’s biggest companies. And Google releases its first AI-generated ad. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Hosted…
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Meet the Robot Housekeeper That’s Still Part Human
1X’s Neo humanoid robot is rolling out to households soon, but it’s not totally autonomous yet. WSJ senior personal technology columnist Joanna Stern tells us…
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TNB Tech Minute: Amazon Reports 13% Jump in Revenue
Plus: Apple has reported record September-quarter sales. And YouTube TV and Disney are in a showdown, with an agreement between the two set to expire at…
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TNB Tech Minute: Volkswagen Cautions on Chip Supply
Plus: Chinese automaker BYD posts disappointing earnings amid intense competition and regulatory pressure. And Universal Music Group signs a deal with AI music…
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TNB Tech Minute: Meta, Google and Microsoft Report Strong Earnings
Plus: GM will lay off more than 3,300 workers at EV and battery plants. And Amazon Web Services plans to invest an additional $5 billion dollars in South Korea…
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TNB Tech Minute: Nvidia Hits $5 Trillion in Market Value
Plus: Verizon’s profit and revenue rise in the third quarter, but postpaid phone losses continue. And Paramount will cut roughly 2,000 workers across the…
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TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Converts to a More Traditional Corporate Structure
Plus: Nvidia unveils a new product that merges AI supercomputing with quantum. And the AI giant partners with Eli Lilly to build a supercomputer that could…
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TNB Tech Minute: Amazon to Lay Off Up to 30,000 Employees
Plus: AI inference startup Fireworks AI is valued at $4 billion in its latest funding round. And Peter Thiel-backed startup Substrate raises more than $100…
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What’s the Deal With Circular AI Deals?
“Circularity” is the latest buzzword in AI, as tech companies strike megadeals with each other. WSJ Heard on the Street columnist Jonathan Weil breaks down why…
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TNB Tech Minute: Qualcomm Launches AI Chips in Challenge to Nvidia
Plus: Apple and Microsoft are neck-and-neck in the race to become the stock market’s second $4 trillion company. And Amazon pledges more than $1.6 billion to…
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TNB Tech Minute: AI Startup Mercor Valued at $10 Billion
Plus: Novartis acquires Avidity Biosciences in a $12 billion deal. And Australia's consumer watchdog accuses Microsoft of misleading customers on AI pricing…
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TNB Tech Minute: Porsche Posts First Loss in Years After Bad EV Bet
Plus: Alaska Airlines cancels hundreds of flights after a technology outage. And Santee Cooper is in talks to sell inactive nuclear reactors to Brookfield…
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TNB Tech Minute: EU Charges Meta Over Handling of Illegal Content
Plus: Anthropic expands Google Cloud partnership to access 1 million chips. And U.K. car manufacturing falls in wake of Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack. Zoe…
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The Promise and Peril of Sam Altman’s Dealmaking
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has been on a dealmaking blitz with some of the world’s largest, most important AI players such as Nvidia and SoftBank. But…
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TNB Tech Minute: Trump Pardons Binance Founder CZ
Plus: European aerospace and defense companies Airbus, Leonardo and Thales join forces to take on SpaceX. And Intel shows progress in its turnaround effort as…
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TNB Tech Minute: Quantum-Computing Firms in Talks to Give U.S. Equity Stakes
Plus: Amazon tests new robots and AI tools in its warehouses and delivery vans. And China releases a five-year plan that includes becoming more self-sufficient…
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TNB Tech Minute: Tesla Profit Drops 37% Despite Jump in Sales
Plus: An amended lawsuit against OpenAI alleges the company twice loosened ChatGPT’s rules on discussing suicide. And Meta cuts about 600 jobs in its AI…
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TNB Tech Minute: Conservative Activist Robby Starbuck Sues Google
Plus: Tinder rolls out safety feature requiring users to scan their faces. And crypto-trading firm FalconX to acquire ETF manager 21shares. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts…
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TNB Tech Minute: Netflix Reports Higher Revenue and Profit
Plus: Coinbase to acquire crypto-investing platform Echo for $375 million. And cooling-equipment maker XNRGY gets financial backing from Decarbonization…
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TNB Tech Minute: GM Expects Smaller EV Losses
Plus: Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology reports higher quarterly profit. And a former antitrust official predicts regulatory scrutiny of…
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Oracle Faces Tough Questions Over Its AI Plans
One of the big winners of the artificial-intelligence boom, Oracle, is facing hard questions from investors and analysts about how it plans to pay for an…
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TNB Tech Minute: Apple Stock Hits Intraday Record on Strong iPhone Sales
Plus: Subscriber cancellations of Disney+ and Hulu doubled in September following “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” suspension. And a second proxy advisory firm recommends…
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TNB Tech Minute: AWS Recovers From Major Outage
Plus: Automakers’ lack of parts leaves thousands of Ford and Jeep employees collecting unemployment. And the U.K. competition regulator raises concerns over…
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TNB Tech Minute: Apple Signs Formula One Streaming Deal
Plus: Goldman Sachs goes after a bigger share of the AI infrastructure financing boom with a new team. And a proxy adviser urges Tesla investors to reject a $1…
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TNB Tech Minute: Pony AI and Stellantis to Deploy Robotaxis in Europe
Plus: The auto industry is panicking about a potentially damaging supply-chain disruption after the Dutch government took control of Chinese-owned chip maker…
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Who Owns Your Face in the Age of AI?
OpenAI’s Sora and other generative-AI video apps that can create a digital lookalike in minutes have taken social media by storm. WSJ personal tech columnist…