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WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Social-media company Reddit profits from feeding artificial-intelligence companies’ insatiable appetite for conversational text. WSJ reporter Sarah Needleman joins host Belle Lin to talk about why Reddit’s posts are so valuable and interesting to AI companies. Plus, why Amazon’s new robotic warehouse still relies heavily on humans. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.8	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, December 12th. I'm Bell Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.
0:58.0	Amazon just opened its most automated warehouse yet. But underneath all the robotics and artificial intelligence, the facility will still rely on thousands of people.
1:02.7	We'll find out why the e-commerce behemoth can't do without humans yet.
1:08.0	And then AI companies were one of Reddit's biggest frustrations last year.
1:12.2	Now they're a key source of growth for the social media platform.
1:18.9	Our reporter, Sarah Needleman, tells us why OpenAI and Google are hankering for Reddit's data.
1:34.0	But first, Amazon said its new warehouse in Shreveport, Louisiana, is its first to use automation and AI at every step of the fulfillment process.
1:45.5	Yet, it still needs thousands of people to keep it running smoothly, especially in the midst of the frantic holiday retail season that pushes millions of added shipments through fulfillment networks.
1:46.6	So what can't Amazon's robots do?
1:49.6	WSJ reporter Liz Young has been following the story, and she joins us now with more.
1:54.8	Liz, why does Amazon need humans at an automated factory that's filled with robots?
2:00.2	Basically, Amazon has been able to incorporate more automation throughout their warehouse.
2:04.6	So they're able to do that to help speed up fulfillment, get packages to you at your house faster.
2:10.6	But in the process, there's still a lot of things that robots can't do.
2:13.6	It's difficult for robots, for example, to do what a human hand does, to reach into a
2:20.0	bin full of items, both identify what it's looking for, and then correctly pick up that item. Same with
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