Why Elon Musk Is Using His Other Businesses to Boost xAI

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Elon Musk is using his business empire to jumpstart his AI startup, xAI. Some Tesla shareholders are suing to make him stop. WSJ reporter Meghan Bobrowsky joins host Zoe Thomas to explain what’s going on. Plus, we’ll tell you how to understand your screen time usage. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	slash Wall Street.
0:19.4	Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Friday, August 16th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.6	Screen time gets a bad rap, but if you want to cut back on your device use,
0:30.3	understanding what counts a screen time and what doesn't is a good start.
0:35.0	We'll explain.
0:36.0	And then, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, X-A-I, is just over a year old,
0:42.0	and as the startup tries to take on competitors like
0:45.3	Open AI and Google Deepmind, it's relying on resources from Musk's other companies.
0:50.8	Our reporter Megan Barbarrowski will join us to explain what's being shared
0:55.8	and why that's not sitting well with some Tesla investors.
1:09.1	But first, on average, Gen Z users spend seven hours a day on their phones, according to a 2023 report from DCDX data. And as excessive screen time comes under scrutiny for its impact on things
1:16.8	like mental health, many of us are looking for ways to cut back. But not all screen time is bad. Here to tell us more is Cordelia James
1:26.2	from our personal tech team. So Cordelia, what is good screen time versus bad
1:31.4	screen time? The difference between good screen time.
1:33.0	The difference between good screen time and bad screen time depends on how long you're being sucked
1:38.6	into a certain app.
1:39.8	Oftentimes, researchers attribute that to social media which with certain algorithms
1:44.8	and the way that the apps are set up they're built to keep you on for as long as
1:48.6	possible sometimes hours at a time good screen time is that time that you're spending,
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