Tech in 2024: How Big Tech Can Stay Resilient

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This week we’re bringing you tech predictions for 2024. The tech industry faced some challenges in 2023 with layoffs across companies and efforts to regulate big tech companies including Google, Meta, and TikTok. So what might we see next year? WSJ global tech editor Jason Dean joins host Alex Ossola to discuss how these changes could affect the industry in 2024. Plus: How OpenAI’s competitors might shoulder in on the company’s turf, and what Cybertruck could mean for Tesla in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:32.0	It's Tuesday, December 26th. I'm Alex Osila for the Wall Street Journal.
0:37.0	This week, we're looking at what 2024 has in store for tech and what some of the biggest trends from 2023 can tell us about the future.
0:45.5	Coming up on today's show, could the turmoil at Open AI give competitors an edge?
0:50.4	And what does Elon Musk's cyber truck mean for Tesla's future?
0:54.0	W.S.J. Global Tech editor Jason Dean reflects on the biggest tech stories of
0:57.8	2023 and tells us his predictions for next year. Can you give us a quick rundown of the top tech news stories of the year?
1:11.3	There's obviously the saga of Ivan Musk's first year of ownership. of the Elon Musk's broader, shall we say, development as a magnate and a business person and a disruptor.
1:29.5	That's been a huge story, not unrelatedly, I think electric vehicles and the surge and demand for that and
1:36.6	then the somewhat reversal in that has been a huge story.
1:40.7	Tech regulation has gone further in some ways and also run into obstacles in others in terms of
1:49.4	Microsoft successfully navigating the government's effort to block its acquisition of Activision.
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