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Welcome to Tech News Briefing.

It's Wednesday, May 8th.

I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal.

Coming up on today's show, online marketplaces like eBay

are turbocharging their searches with artificial intelligence.

We'll hear about how this could make for a better

shopping experience from W.S.J. Hurt on the street columnist Jinjou Lee. And then,

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is betting big on making Robotaxies a centerpiece of the company's long-term

strategy.

W.S.J. reporter Ryan Felton tells us what we know about the technology so far.

But first, have you ever searched for something on an online marketplace like Etsy or eBay only to find things that were not quite what you were looking for?

Well, those companies are hoping that AI could help with that.

W.S.J. Heard on the street columnist Jinjou Lee is here to tell us how AI could make these platforms better for users and sellers.

Jinjou, why are some online marketplaces interested in adding AI to their searches?

Yeah, so online marketplaces like ETSE, eBay, thread up, they all make money every time there's a transaction on their platform,

so they have an incentive to make sure that they remove any kind of fiction that stands in the way of more transactions happening.

And the thing is these marketplaces have so many listings that there are probably opportunities for more transactions to happen if there was better

search functionality.

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