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WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.3 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Disinformation is rampant online, and generative artificial intelligence makes it all the more powerful. WSJ contributor Jack Brewster wanted to see just how easy it would be to make his own fully automated AI-generated news website. He tells host Alex Ossola about the experiment, and what it reveals about how disinformation is spread on the internet. Plus, China has for years wanted to wean its telecommunications systems off foreign-made chips. Now, it looks like that’s finally happening—and, as WSJ China tech editor Liza Lin discusses, it could have a big impact on American chip companies. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Net Suite by Oracle brings accounting, finance, inventory, and HR into one proven platform, helping you reduce costs everywhere.
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0:15.8	Head to Netzweed.com. Wall Street.
0:18.6	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, April 17th. I'm Alex Osila for the Wall Street Journal.
0:29.0	Coming up on today's show, China is phasing out its use of foreign chips in its
0:33.9	telecommunications systems. W.S.J. China tech editor Lisa Lynn tells us how that could
0:39.1	affect some of America's biggest chipmakers. And then, how easy is it to set up a fully automated AI-powered
0:46.5	propaganda machine?
0:47.9	Apparently, very easy.
0:49.9	W.S.J. contributor Jack Brewster gave it a try and tells us what it means for the spread of disinformation
0:55.8	on the internet.
0:57.4	But first, for years, China has been trying to wean itself off the foreign technology that
1:05.6	underpins its telecommunications systems. It's for the interest of its national security, but also
1:11.1	as a push for self-sufficiency in its tech industry.
1:14.0	Now, it looks like the country may finally accomplish this.
1:17.0	W.S.J. China Tech Editor Lisa Lynn
1:20.0	is here to tell us what that could mean for the global chip industry.
1:23.5	Liza, China is trying to cut American chipmakers out of its telecommunications systems.
1:28.3	What does this mean on a practical level?
1:30.3	This is the latest iteration in China's drive to localize most of its tech
1:36.1	infrastructure. So it's really starting with a state-owned and the state sector and
1:40.5	that's why the telecom companies are involved because in China a
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