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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Is Letting Businesses Build AI Agents

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus, Starlink is getting more competition in Europe. And a new clean-energy fund gets investments. Shara Tibken hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.3

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0:31.3

Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, March 11th. I'm Shara Tipkin for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.8

OpenAI is letting businesses build their own artificial intelligence agents. Its new platform will allow its customers to design

0:44.5

bots that can independently perform tasks on behalf of humans. So far, AI agents can do simple things

0:52.1

like order office supplies. Businesses generally don't trust them for hiring workers or other high-stakes transactions.

1:00.3

OpenAI hopes that will start to change as its AI improves. It has called 2025 the year of agents.

1:07.7

OpenAI now has 2 million paying business users, doubling from this past fall.

1:13.1

An Italian aerospace and defense group plans to launch more satellites to compete with SpaceX.

1:18.9

Leonardo aims to put nearly 40 satellites in orbit by 2028. They can be used for military and

1:25.1

civilian purposes, and they cost about $1.5 billion.

1:30.0

The low orbiting satellites would give European governments an alternative to SpaceX's Starlink.

1:36.0

In January, Italy's Prime Minister lamented the lack of, quote, public alternatives to Elon Musk's satellite company.

1:47.5

Starlink has more than 7,000 satellites orbiting Earth.

1:55.2

And Aligned Climate Capital has raised $85 million from investors to make clean energy bets.

2:00.6

The firm plans to make early stage investments in businesses that help reduce carbon emissions. They could include

2:02.1

renewable power, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, and carbon capture. The new fund is twice the

2:09.4

size of Align's first fund. It includes investments from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller

2:15.0

Foundation. The Aligned Climate Fund, too, arrives despite uncertainty about the Trump administration's

2:21.2

clean energy policies.

2:23.6

For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech, check out tomorrow's Tech News Briefing podcast.

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