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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: AI Replaces Hundreds of Human Workers at IBM

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: DoorDash acquires Deliveroo for nearly $4 billion. And, the Department of Justice recommends Google sell two parts of its ad businesses to remedy antitrust concerns. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay.

0:04.0

But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill.

0:08.0

This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed,

0:13.0

allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards.

0:18.0

Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price.

0:22.1

Tell Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose. Learn more at

0:28.1

guard your card.com. Here's your TNP Tech Minute for Tuesday, May 6th. I'm Victoria Craig for the

0:35.9

Wall Street Journal. Artificial intelligence has

0:38.7

already replaced hundreds of human resources workers at IBM. That's the news from the company's

0:44.6

chief executive, Arvind Krishna, who told the Wall Street Journal, the move has allowed IBM to,

0:49.8

instead, invest in hiring more software engineers, sales, and marketing people.

0:55.2

Krishna added that overall employment at the company has increased,

0:58.7

and humans are deployed in positions that focus less on what he calls wrote process work

1:04.0

and more human-to-human interaction.

1:07.1

Staying in big tech, Cisco took the wraps off a prototype of its new quantum chip and opened a quantum lab as it looks to accelerate its work in the ultra-fast computing sphere.

1:17.5

Cisco developed the chip in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara.

1:21.4

The company says the chip is designed to work with existing fiber optic infrastructure and enable quantum networks to scale and connect with

1:29.0

quantum processors for practical applications. Elsewhere, DoorDash said today it struck a deal

1:34.9

to buy British food delivery company Deliveroo for nearly $4 billion. The deal is meant to increase

1:40.7

the San Francisco-based company's global presence since the combined company

1:44.6

will operate in more than 40 countries serving about 50 million active users each month.

1:50.6

Together, the two companies last year generated $90 billion in gross order value.

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