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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, January 2nd. Happy New Year. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

We're hearing from our reporters and columnists about some of the biggest companies, trends, and people in tech, and what could be in store for 2025.

And perhaps the biggest story in tech is what new developments the artificial intelligence industry has planned for the year ahead.

2024 saw the integration of AI into even more everyday tools for people and businesses.

And while the AI industry could have an ally in power when President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House in a few weeks,

AI developers are also facing new challenges in the hunt for more data to train their models.

What will this mean for the science and business of AI?

WSJ reporter Deepa Sitha Raman joins us to discuss.

A quick note before we get into the conversation.

NewsCorp, owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing

partnership with OpenAI. Deepa, what do you think were the most important developments in AI in

24? That is such a hard question. A lot happened. It is simultaneously a time of like incredible

optimism, maybe even like peak AI bubble behavior, but also a moment where reality set in for other companies.

So we saw a really big crop of new companies that were going to do amazing things, right?

We had a company called Character AI that came out from one of the top research scientists in the world,

a guy named Noam Shazir.

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