How Screens Are Taking Over Classrooms

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.3 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Class time has become screen time in schools across the country. WSJ education reporter Sara Randazzo tells host Julie Chang about the rapid tech transformation playing out in American schools, and whether it has benefited learning or done kids a disservice. Plus, why compliance firms are using artificial intelligence to decode Wall Street-trader jargon. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, January 23rd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.2	Could artificial intelligence learn to speak financial jargon? Compliance companies say they've cracked the code
0:47.3	and are using the tech to fight insider trading and other financial crimes. Plus, screens are
0:53.6	becoming a bigger part of the school
0:55.2	day in classrooms across the country, accelerated by the COVID pandemic. But has more tech
1:00.8	and classes benefited learning? We'll dive into that. But first, catching insider trading
1:10.0	tends to be challenging because of all the financial
1:12.5	jargon used by Wall Street traders.
1:15.1	Now, companies that make compliance software are pitching generative AI to firms saying
1:20.6	the tools could help combat financial crime.
1:23.7	Risk and Compliance Journal reporter Richard Banderford has been looking into this and he joins me now.
1:29.1	Richard, what problem are AI compliance software companies looking to address here?
1:34.3	Banks and other kinds of financial institutions create a large amount of communications data, obviously, because they have thousands of employees.
1:43.3	And the compliance staff have to sift
1:45.7	through that to see if there's any evidence of market manipulation or insider trading or any other
1:51.3	kind of financial crime. And in the past, this had been done by frontline staff using pretty
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