The U.S. Is Behind in Hypersonic Tech. Can Silicon Valley Help?

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Hypersonic weapons and aircraft travel at five times the speed of sound or faster. Though Russia and China have these weapons, the U.S. military does not, despite investing billions of dollars over decades in their development. Now, some Silicon Valley startups are betting they can help the U.S. Defense Department catch up. WSJ tech reporter Heather Somerville tells host Alex Ossola why investors and startups are placing unlikely bets on superfast missile systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday March 1st. I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal.
0:27.0	Coming up on today's show, just as Venom is the antithesis of Spider-Man, there are nefarious versions of artificial intelligence-powered chat
0:34.7	bots too.
0:35.7	W.S.J. Business tech reporter Bell Lynn tells us what these bots are being used for and
0:40.8	how businesses are stepping up their cyber defenses.
0:44.0	And then, the U.S. military has spent billions of dollars over decades
0:48.0	trying to develop high-tech super-fast missile systems.
0:52.0	We'll find out why Silicon Valley startups are betting
0:54.3	they can help the military catch up to its rivals from W.S.J. Tech reporter Heather
0:58.8	Somerville. But first, cyber criminals on the dark web have a new tool at their disposal, dark AI
1:08.2	chatbots. Their large language model similar to chat gpPT only a bit different.
1:13.4	W.S.J. Business tech reporter Bell Lynn is here to tell us what criminals are using them
1:18.0	for and how people can protect themselves for more sophisticated digital attacks.
1:23.0	Bell, tell me about these AI-powered tools on the dark web.
1:26.0	These tools are really tools designed to help hackers,
1:30.0	and it's exactly as it sounds.
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