Can Europe's Homegrown Satellite Company Compete with Elon Musk's Starlink?

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Europe is looking at Eutelsat, a smaller rival to Starlink, to reduce its reliance on the U.S. company. Plus, how much personal information should you give an AI chatbot? WSJ personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen dives into that in our special three-part series “Chatbot Confidential.” Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.2	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, April 14th. I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street
1:11.1	Journal. We've all learned to think twice before posting something online. But what about
1:15.8	taking a pause before entering information into an AI chatbot? There are some very good
1:20.9	reasons why you should. Then Elon Musk's satellite communication service Starlink has been a
1:26.2	reliable telecom tool around the world.
1:28.7	But with geopolitical tensions rising, Europe wants to bolster its homegrown competitor.
1:35.8	We start with a reminder that not everything you post online is private.
1:40.9	That's true for social media, and it's true for artificial intelligence tools.
1:45.2	So before you go entering health information into chat GPT, Claude, or Gemini, with the hope of
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