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WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Exclusive: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tells WSJ senior personal technology columnist Joanna Stern about its new Windows platform optimized for artificial intelligence. Plus, why computer-science majors are having a harder time finding jobs. Zoe Thomas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, May 21st. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:37.0	In the US, the number of university students majoring in computer and information science has jumped 40% in five years to more than
0:46.0	600,000 as of 2023.
0:49.6	But job opportunities haven't kept up with that and recent grads are discovering
0:54.2	their degrees are no longer a sure-fire ticket to tech industry riches.
0:59.0	Reporter Catherine Binley is going to join us with more on that.
1:03.4	And then, Microsoft announced yesterday a new personal computer
1:07.5	optimized for artificial intelligence.
1:10.5	Our senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern sat down with Microsoft CEO
1:15.2	Saatia Nadella for an exclusive interview. We'll have highlights from their
1:19.8	conversation.
1:25.0	We're talking about tech jobs first.
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