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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, March 19th. I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal.

Google's $32 billion bet, leveraging cybersecurity to lure new customers to the cloud.

Our reporter in San Francisco explains why cloud security is so important for the tech titan.

Then, when we think of artificial intelligence, we often think of the ways

it makes our lives easier. Chatbot, casual conversationalist on a smart speaker, problem

solver. But students have learned to use it to cheat on their homework. We'll find out how

educators and policymakers are thinking about how to stay one step ahead of the robots.

But first, it's hard to imagine search engine giant Google lagging in any arena it competes.

But the company is hoping a $32 billion deal to buy Wiz, one of the fastest growing startups of all time,

will help bolster Google's standing in the world of cloud computing through enhanced cybersecurity. The Wall Street Journal's

Berber Jin breaks down the strategy. So Berber, this deal is Google's biggest ever. It's more than

double what it paid for Motorola mobility back in 2012, which means that cybersecurity for the cloud

must be really important for Google. Why is that?

So I think we have to zoom back to the pandemic. You had a lot of businesses basically moving

all of their data and operations onto the cloud. People were staying at home.

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