Plus, shares of Ray-Ban maker rise after the company says it’s drawing interest from tech giants. And Morgan Stanley releases its second homegrown AI tool. Zoe Thomas hosts.
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[00:00:20] Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Friday, July 26th. I'm Zoe Thomas for The Wall Street Journal. CrowdStrike says over 97 percent of Microsoft Windows sensors are back online as of yesterday, nearly a week after a global tech outage snarled businesses, government agencies and air travel worldwide.
[00:00:41] In a post on LinkedIn, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the company still has more work to do to address the fallout from the disruption, and apologized again to customers. About 8.5 million devices were affected by the outage, according to CrowdStrike, which
[00:00:56] blamed the incident on a bug in a quality control tool it uses to check system updates. Shares of eyewear giant Essaylor Luxottica rose after saying it's attracting interest from big tech companies. Shares closed 7.4 percent higher today.
[00:01:13] The Ray-Ban maker says Google and others showed interest in exploring partnerships following its smart glasses tie-up with meta platforms. Google didn't respond to a request for comment. Essaylor Luxottica's CEO told analysts the company is aware of meta's intention to buy
[00:01:29] a stake, but any share purchases would have to be carried out on the market. Last week we reported that the Facebook parent was in talks to take a stake of about 5 percent in the eyewear maker. And Morgan Stanley says it finished deploying its second generative artificial intelligence
[00:01:46] application to financial advisors last week. The new tool is called AI at Morgan Stanley Debrief. It summarizes video meetings and generates drafts of follow-up emails based on them. Morgan Stanley built the tool in collaboration with OpenAI, choosing to create a homegrown
[00:02:02] solution rather than using an off-the-shelf product from a tech provider. Wall Street Journal owner News Corp has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech, check out Monday's Tech News Briefing podcast.