Why Google Thinks It Can Catch Up to ChatGPT
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:33.7 | Welcome to Tech News briefing. |
| 0:36.4 | It's Tuesday, January 21st. I'm Belle Lynn for The Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.8 | Is your iPhone storage constantly full? Mine is. We'll find out how to get rid of pesky storage hogs and help extend the time between purging your phone. |
| 0:52.0 | And then, bring on the chatbot wars. Google has a bold new |
| 0:57.3 | goal for its Gemini chatbot, and that includes surpassing the capabilities and usership of its |
| 1:04.1 | rival OpenAI's chat GPT. Our reporter Miles Krupa tells us why Google is in it to win it. |
| 1:14.2 | But first, iPhone storage creep. It's a nefarious thing. It's been happening on our devices for the past 10 years or so. |
| 1:23.6 | As our cameras have gotten better, the sizes of our photos and videos have gotten higher, |
| 1:28.6 | and the software updates have gotten bigger too. Now, with AI coming to our devices, it really |
| 1:34.8 | just means we have less space to work with. So what can we do about it? Our personal tech columnist, |
| 1:41.1 | Nicole Nguyen, has a few suggestions. Okay, Nicole, let's talk about ways to |
| 1:45.9 | manage the space hogs. What are some of your top tips? So this is not necessarily a tip, |
| 1:51.4 | but it's something that you can do, which is just throw money at the problem and buy a new phone |
| 1:55.2 | and pay $100 or $200 more for the next tier. 128 gigabytes is the base model. |
| 2:03.3 | But I don't think that's enough for most people who have been taking photos for many, many |
| 2:08.2 | years. |
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