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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, April 10th. I'm Victoria Craig for The Wall Street Journal.

A show today about our reliance on technology, how leaning too into the latest trends might make our brains lazy. And then we find out whether Apple can really adopt an America First strategy.

We start with a brief reprieve from the impact of tariffs on America's tech industry and focus

instead on outsourcing your brain. Every time a new technology is introduced, TVs, the internet,

smartphones, there are always the naysayers who fear it'll rot our brains or make us lazy. But when it

comes to artificial intelligence, shifting a difficult task off your to-do list can be a good

thing until it gets to a point where it becomes a bad thing. Wall Street Journal reporter Sam

Schachtner recently discovered what that point was for him when he realized just how often he was relying on AI to compose complicated messages in French.

So Sam, tell me about how you recently recognized that you might be leaning on AI a bit too much.

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