TNB Tech Minute: World Trade Grew in First Quarter on AI Boom
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:31.4 | Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, May 22nd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. World trade flows rose in the |
| 0:40.2 | first three months of the year, thanks to AI investment. According to figures released today by the |
| 0:45.6 | Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, also known as a CPB, the volume of goods moving across |
| 0:52.0 | national borders was 3.5% higher in the first quarter than in the |
| 0:56.1 | previous one. However, trading goods may slow in this and coming quarters as the conflict in the |
| 1:01.3 | Middle East has closed a key transit route, while higher energy prices will likely weaken demand for other |
| 1:07.0 | products. Just as in 2025, a surge in U.S. demand for goods related to data centers |
| 1:12.5 | and other investments in AI drove growth at the start of 2026. On the flip side to that export boom, |
| 1:18.8 | there was a 6.3% rise in U.S. imports. France plans to invest more than $1 billion in domestic |
| 1:27.1 | quantum computing companies and capabilities |
| 1:29.2 | in an effort to keep up with the U.S. and China in what the country sees as a race for tech sovereignty. |
| 1:35.4 | French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that the money would partly be injected through an existing military procurement program that buys from five French quantum computing companies. |
| 1:45.6 | The announcement comes after the U.S. said yesterday that it was awarding $2 billion in grants to quantum computing companies. |
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