Samsung’s Experience With AI on Phones Offers Clues for Apple

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Apple says it will introduce generative artificial intelligence features on its new iPhones. Rival Samsung has already rolled out many of the same features. WSJ personal tech news editor Shara Tibken joins host Zoe Thomas to explain how these features are being received and what Apple’s entry into the market could mean for sales of smartphones with AI capabilities. Plus, how China is making progress in the push to develop self-driving technology. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.6	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday July 11th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:28.0	China seems to be making more progress than the West in the bumpy race to develop self-driving technology.
0:35.6	And both Beijing and Chinese companies are behind the push.
0:39.4	We'll explain what's happening.
0:41.6	And then to get a sense of what generative artificial intelligence
0:45.0	features could look like on Apple's smartphones, look at Samsung. Our personal tech news
0:50.6	editor Sharra Tippkin is going to tell us how customers are reacting to AI features
0:55.2	on Samsung devices and what this could mean for iPhones. But first, self-driving technology has been a little stop and go in the West.
1:08.0	Cruz, the self-driving car unit of General Motors, suspended operations last year after regulators in California
1:15.3	said the vehicles aren't safe and pulled the company's permit. Rival Waimo, owned by Google
1:21.0	Parent Alphabet, however, recently signaled its confidence by expanding
1:25.7	its service in San Francisco to anyone who downloads the app.
1:29.6	And Tesla CEO Elon Musk has zeroed in on the company's driver assistance technology as the best answer to its growth woes.
1:37.0	But Stephen Wilmot, an editor for the Wall Street journals heard on the street column, says arguably more progress is being made in China
1:44.8	judging by the sheer number of companies with technology at or close to the cutting edge.
1:49.7	He's here to tell us more about that. So Stephen, who are the big players in China's self-driving sector?
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