AI Takes Center Stage at Tech Live 2023

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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WSJ’s Tech Live will feature some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence including the CEOs of OpenAI and Arm. WSJ Live Journalism news editor Sara Castellanos joins host Zoe Thomas with a preview of what to expect. And, WSJ reporter Patience Haggin explains how U.S. government agencies used commercially available cell phone data for intelligence operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, October 16th.
0:38.2	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:41.4	Today marks the start of the WSJ's annual tech live.
0:45.9	Marking the events 10th year. Big names in AI, crypto, and investing will be on stage with
0:52.9	WSJ staff, who will be asking them some of the most pressing questions in tech right now.
0:59.7	Live journalism editor Sarah Costellanos joins us to discuss what you can expect to hear this week.
1:08.5	But starting with some news on how data from your cell phone could be used for government
1:13.6	surveillance. The Wall Street Journal identified a network of brokers in advertising exchanges,
1:19.3	whose data was flowing from apps, to intelligence, and other government agencies,
1:24.4	through a company called Near Intelligence. Our reporter Patience Hagin joins us now for more on this.
1:30.1	Patience, tell us about some of the agencies that have purchased this data and how it's been used.
1:35.6	Agencies like Department of Defense and the NSA have purchased this kind of data from data brokers.
1:43.8	It's been used for all manner of uses related to law enforcement, counterintelligence,
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