meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Cloudflare Outage Knocks X, ChatGPT and More Offline

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Plus: OpenAI and Intuit strike a multiyear partnership. And Lambda raises over $1.5 billion in its latest funding round. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

AI is moving faster than ever, transforming industries and redefining possibilities.

0:06.0

That's why the world's most advanced companies build on ARM, scalable, efficient, and trusted by billions.

0:13.0

From the largest cloud to the smallest device, Arm delivers the compute performance AI depends on.

0:19.0

AI innovation is built on ARM.

0:22.2

Find out more at arm.com forward slash discover.

0:30.0

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, November 18th.

0:34.5

I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

0:40.8

Sites like X, chat GPT, and Spotify were knocked offline for tens of thousands of users this morning due to a global outage affecting

0:45.8

the web security service, Cloudflare. Many major sites and companies rely on Cloudflare for security

0:51.9

tools that protect from cyber attacks and traffic surges.

0:55.8

The company said they're investigating the issue.

0:58.5

Shears of Cloudflare were down 4.7% in pre-market trading.

1:03.5

We are exclusively reporting OpenAI and Intuit agreed to a multi-year partnership in which

1:08.7

Intuit will deepen its use of OpenAI models

1:11.3

and make its applications available on ChatGPT. The companies said they expect the deal to generate

1:17.3

more than $100 million in revenue for OpenAI over an unspecified number of years.

1:23.1

Intuit will gain extensive access to OpenAI's APIs, and the partnership will allow it to leverage

1:28.2

OpenAI frontier models for cutting-edge use cases across the business, according to the companies.

1:34.8

And we're ending on another WSJ exclusive. Lambda, a startup that rents out access to advanced AI chips,

1:41.7

said it raised over $1.5 billion in its latest funding round.

1:46.0

The series E round was led by TWG Global, a holding company led by Thomas Toll and Mark Walter,

1:52.3

with participation from Toll's U.S. Innovative Technology Fund and other investors.

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 1 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Wall Street Journal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Wall Street Journal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.