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Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Friday, January 31st. I'm Belle Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

All this week, we are exploring what President Trump's second term could mean for the tech industry

over the next four years and beyond. Cybersecurity threats are ever increasing for businesses,

consumers, and the government.

Just this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that hackers linked to China, Iran, and other

foreign governments are using new artificial intelligence tech to bolster their cyber

attacks against the U.S. and other global targets.

We'll speak with our reporter Dustin Vol Volz, about how government hackers are using AI chatbots

and the implications of a new AI model from the Chinese firm Deepseek.

Then we'll discuss how the new Trump administration looks at cybersecurity and why we're likely to see a more aggressive response to

cyber attacks.

So, Dustin, what exactly are these AI-enabled hackers doing? And how do we know they're doing it?

Well, they're likely using all sorts of generative AI platforms, but in this case, the

research is from Google's Gemini chatbot.

That's the research that we had an exclusive look at.

And what it shows is that dozens of different hacking groups in China, Iran, and elsewhere

were returning to Jim and I to try to bolster their cyber attacks.

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