Belle Lin

New York

Tech Reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Tech reporter @WSJ / @CIOJournal / [email protected]

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AI Can’t Predict the Impact of Tariffs-But It Will Try

1 week ago | wsj.com | Isabelle Bousquette |Belle Lin

Companies are looking to technology to help navigate supply-chain uncertaintyArtificial intelligence was supposed to be a boon for helping companies navigate the impact of disruptions to their supply chains. But even this groundbreaking tech has its limits—and wasn’t ready for the far-reaching, on-and-off tariffs from President Trump. Businesses contending with ongoing uncertainty want help from their supply-chain technology providers.
AI Can’t Predict the Impact of Tariffs-But It Will Try

1 week ago | wsj.com | Isabelle Bousquette |Belle Lin

The magnitude of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs caught many businesses by surprise, said Jonathan Colehower, managing director of global operations and supply chain at UST. The company advises businesses on digital transformations and solving supply-chain challenges with technology. That unpredictability limits how tech vendors can assist, Colehower said. “We’re looking at one individual’s decision, so it becomes much more difficult to try and predict that one stakeholder,” he said.
Nuclear Power Is Back. And This Time, AI Can Help Manage the Reactors.

1 week ago | wsj.com | Belle Lin

Argonne’s tool, called the Parameter-Free Reasoning Operator for Automated Identification and Diagnosis, or PRO-AID, marks a technological leap in a field that saw its heyday in the last quarter of the 20th century. “The nuclear plants were built over 30 years ago,” Vilim said, “so they’re kind of dinosaurs when it comes to technology.”Today, nearly all of the nation’s 94 operating nuclear reactors have had their licenses extended, and together still provide almost 20% of U.S. electricity.
AMD Closes $4.9 Billion ZT Systems Deal, Targeting Its Piece of the ‘AI Factory’

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Belle Lin

Advanced Micro Devices has completed its $4.9 billion purchase of ZT Systems, a designer of data-center equipment for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the company said on Monday. The deal, first announced last August, marks the latest effort by the chip maker better known as AMD to pump up its data-center systems offerings against its rival Nvidia.
Anthropic, Databricks Team Up in Scramble for AI Revenue

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Belle Lin

Anthropic and Databricks struck a five year, $100 million pact to sell artificial intelligence tools to businesses, targeting those seeking to build their own AI agents. Both Anthropic and Databricks are under tremendous pressure to generate revenue from AI that can justify their sky-high valuations—especially as they go up against some of the tech industry’s biggest players, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI.
Anthropic, Databricks Team Up in Scramble for AI Revenue

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Belle Lin

Based on the deal structure, Anthropic and Databricks are expected to jointly generate $100 million in revenue over a five-year period, they said. Both companies’ sales teams will sell each others’ products, according to Anthropic. The companies declined to share additional financial details behind the commercial and engineering partnership.
オープンAI、最新版「GPT-4o」公開画像生成なおリアルに

4 weeks ago | jp.wsj.com | Belle Lin

米オープンAIは、人工知能（AI）システム「GPT-4o」の最新モデルを公開した。人間のトレーナーを動員した1年にわたる取り組みの結果、よりリアルな画像の生成が可能になった。　GPT-4oは「DALL-E 3」に代わり、画像生成モデルとして対話型AI「チャットGPT」にデフォルト搭載される。チャットGPTのフリー、プラス、チーム、プロの各ユーザーが利用できる。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Image Creation for ChatGPT

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Belle Lin

Billed as a less expensive version of its most advanced AI model at the time, GPT-4o debuted last year as a multimodal model capable of creating and understanding text, video, audio and images. Today’s refined GPT-4o model makes it easier for consumers, and businesses, to create more life-like images and paragraphs of comprehensible text—and even company logos and slide decks, OpenAI said.
OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Image Creation for ChatGPT

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Belle Lin

OpenAI unveiled an updated version of its AI system GPT-4o that can generate more realistic images, the result of a year-long effort with human trainers. GPT-4o replaces DALL-E 3 as the default image generation model behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, and the ability to use it is now available to ChatGPT Free, Plus, Team and Pro users, the company said.
AI-Powered Databases Boost the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Process

1 month ago | wsj.com | Belle Lin

Researchers studying Alzheimer’s disease are using artificial intelligence-powered databases to accelerate the drug discovery process by making it easier to sift through vast amounts of biomedical data.