Sam Schechner is a Technology Reporter at The Wall Street Journal. He covers a wide range of topics including AI and machine learning, energy policy, and corporate fraud, with a focus on deep tech and regional interests, particularly in the APAC region. His work has been featured in MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Financial News, and other prominent publications.
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Sam's coverage is primarily focused on tech and government & politics, with a strong emphasis on Europe. He has extensively covered topics related to terrorism, technology, social media in the context of France and the European Union.
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The investment marks Europe’s largest artificial-intelligence infrastructure project to date
By: Sam Schechner
The experiment offers one of the first large-scale looks at the effect that coordinated AI adoption can have on students’ reasoning, retention and confidence.
By: Kate Clark, Eliot Brown, Sam Schechner
Masayoshi Son said that his Tokyo-based technology conglomerate would unleash at least $52 billion of investment in French data centers.
By: Sam Schechner, Kate Clark, Eliot Brown
In an interview, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son shrugs off an AI bubble and says a correction would be a good time to invest. ‘Aim for much bigger fish.’
By: Sam Schechner, Bradley Olson
The $1 trillion startup warns that AI models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention.
By: Sam Schechner
Guardrails make the powerful model less useful for AI researchers, though the company said it would grant safeguard-free access to the science community.
By: Amrith Ramkumar, Sam Schechner, Natalie Andrews
The president made his comments at a Group of Seven summit where some world leaders were concerned about losing access to leading AI tools.
By: Noemie Bisserbe, Amrith Ramkumar, Sam Schechner
Read this exciting story from The Wall Street Journal June 18, 2026 issue. President Trump said negotiations with Anthropic over restoring access to the company’s latest artificial-intelligence models were “going fine,” comments that came at a Group of Seven summit where some world leaders were concerned about losing access to leading AI tools.
By: Sam Schechner, Amrith Ramkumar, Meghan Bobrowsky
Washington’s move to unblock Anthropic’s model underscores America’s divisions over how to regulate cutting-edge technology.
By: Sam Schechner
António Guterres labels lethal autonomous weapons “morally repugnant,” resurfacing issue that was central to Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon.
