In 2015, Amazon launched an operation called Project Curiosity to gather information about its competitors’ operations. The company took extraordinary measures to keep it secret. WSJ reporter Dana Mattioli tells host Alex Ossola more about the project. Plus, big tech companies that spent years expanding their office space are now cutting back. WSJ reporter Konrad Putzier talks about what’s going on, and why it’s leaving property owners in the lurch.

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Plus: ASML posts lower-than-expected orders for the first quarter. And Tesla shareholders are once again set to vote on CEO Elon Musk’s pay package. Alex Ossola hosts.

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Disinformation is rampant online, and generative artificial intelligence makes it all the more powerful. WSJ contributor Jack Brewster wanted to see just how easy it would be to make his own fully automated AI-generated news website. He tells host Alex Ossola about the experiment, and what it reveals about how disinformation is spread on the internet. Plus, China has for years wanted to wean its telecommunications systems off foreign-made chips. Now, it looks like that’s finally happening—and, as WSJ China tech editor Liza Lin discusses, it could have a big impact on American chip companies.

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