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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Is Launching a Search Engine

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus, Uber and Lyft win a court battle to treat drivers as contractors. And online education company 2U files for bankruptcy. Zoe Thomas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your TnB Tech Minute for Thursday, July 25th.

0:24.0

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:27.0

Open AI is launching a test version of its long-awaited search engine.

0:31.0

The tool called SearchGPT will summarize information found

0:35.5

on websites, let users ask follow-up questions, and provide links to sources at the end of

0:40.9

each answer. The company said the sources of information

0:44.1

will include news from partners such as News Corp and the Atlantic magazine.

0:48.5

Open AI said it partnered with publishers to build the search tool.

0:53.2

Publishers are broadly concerned that AI-powered search tools could reduce online

0:57.8

traffic and advertising revenue.

1:00.2

Wall Street Journal owner News Corp has a content licensing partnership with open AI.

1:05.0

Uber Lift and other companies can continue to classify gig workers as independent contractors,

1:12.0

according to a ruling from California's Supreme Court.

1:15.0

A 2020 ballot measure called Proposition 22 allowed the companies to continue classifying their

1:21.0

drivers as gig workers despite a state law that sought to reclassify

1:25.4

them as employees.

1:27.2

A lower court ruled Proposition 22 constitutional, but some ride-chair drivers and a labor union had challenged that decision,

1:34.4

sending the fight eventually to the state's highest court.

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