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Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.
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Is surveillance technology a more humane alternative to detaining immigrants?
Countries all over the world use technology to keep track of immigrants released from detention centers. The idea is to allow people to live in commun...
AI companies are eyeing your shopping cart and your data
Open AI has added a checkout feature to ChatGPT, partnering with Etsy and Shopify to let users purchase some items from select merchants. OpenAI says...
Bytes: Week in Review — ChatGPT vs. Claude, Nvidia in the hot seat, and Hollywood’s latest AI lawsuit
Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Nova Safo to break down all of these headlines. This episode was produced by Jesús...
What does ownership mean in the digital age?
There’s a new class action lawsuit against Amazon Prime Video that’s once again elevating the question of ownership in the digital age: Who actually o...
Is Google honest about the environmental impacts of Gemini?
A recent report put out by the tech giant claims its AI model consumes very little electricity and water for a single query. Emma Strubell, an assista...
Can customs tech really simplify the import-export process?
Borders may be invisible to most shoppers, but for businesses, they often mean delays, extra costs, and reams of paperwork. And amid Trump’s trade war...
Online coverage of anti-ICE protest split by political lenses
Protests in Southern California and around the country over raids targeting undocumented immigrants played out differently on social media depending o...
The various contracts Palantir has with the federal government
Data analytics company Palantir has many contracts with federal government, just as the Trump administration is reportedly trying to construct a centr...
Crypto crime gets physical
On today’s episode of Marketplace Tech, Nova Safo speaks with Ari Redbord, global head of policy with the blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, about...
Is Apple out of ideas?
Today on “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we're looking at Apple's latest software and operating system updates. Also, there's a tentative la...
Can Finland take Europe’s startup crown?
Building work has started in the Finnish capital Helsinki on what’s expected to become the biggest startup campus in Europe. Finland’s government says...
Brazil wants its consumers to control their digital data — by monetizing it
There's a trial run taking place over a type of digital wallet for data. Consumers are in control, and they can sell their data to the highest bidder....
Companies are betting on deep sea mining for critical minerals
The International Energy Agency projects the global market value of critical minerals could reach almost $800 billion by 2040. That's because we must...
Federal judge rules AI chatbots don't have free speech protections — for now
There’s a lawsuit right now that’s testing the question of whether AI chatbots are protected by the First Amendment. And before we get into it, a warn...
Bytes: Week in Review: A bet to make AI less human, and more
Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, wants it to be less human. Plus, a federal judge temporarily blocked a law in Florida that would...
How a high-tech farm in Canada is winning in the trade war
We've been looking at how technology is changing agriculture. Last month, we visited Central California where there's new investment in everything fro...
A test to weed out AI-generated deepfake images
AI-generated deepfakes are everywhere on social media. Now, you can take a test developed by Northwestern University to see how well you spot them. Ma...
The startups bringing brain-computer interfaces to market
On this episode of “Marketplace Tech,” host Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Christopher Mims, a tech journalist at The Wall Street Journal, about the...
Police use new AI tool that can identify someone without facial features
Facial recognition systems use artificial intelligence to analyze patterns in faces, and they've come under increasing scrutiny, particularly in polic...
Bytes: Week in Review — Texas’ age verification law, a potential moratorium on local AI laws, and Meta splits its AI team
There's a provision tucked into the Big Beautiful Bill, among the tax cuts and Medicaid cuts, that would bar states from passing laws to regulate arti...
NYC's child welfare agency uses AI to scrutinize marginalized families, recent investigation finds
The New York City Administration for Children's Services, or ACS, has been using predictive artificial intelligence to flag some families for greater...
Controversial Reddit AI study raises wider ethical concerns
In late April, details came to light about a covert experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Zurich on unsuspecting Reddit users on...
Big Tech pivots from the carrot to the stick
Big Tech firms like Microsoft, Meta and Google are using stricter performance reviews to bring up productivity and weed out low performing workers. It...
Are digital banking outages on the rise?
Digital banking is often seen as a smoother, less costly way to deliver financial services. But where there’s tech, there are sometimes outages. Bank...
Bytes: Week in Review – AI dominates Google I/O and more
On this week’s episode of Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week In Review, President Donald Trump signed the "Take It Down" Act, which requires internet publis...
Farm workers head back to school to upskill in agtech
This week, we hit the road to check out California’s Central Valley, where the future of agricultural innovation is taking shape. We visited a farm th...
Universities propel agtech innovation in the Central Valley
This week, we’re heading to California’s Central Valley to see how technology is transforming this agricultural region. And we’re going straight to th...
California farmers reshape agriculture with cutting edge tech
California is known for being home to Hollywood and Silicon Valley. But the Golden State also has millions of acres of farmland, and we’re exploring h...
Having a child in a digital economy
Having a baby in the era of apps, influencers, subreddits and Facebook groups, has its ups and downs.
Journalist Amanda Hess thought she knew al...
Bytes: Week in Review - Saudi Arabia bets billions on AI
President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East has prompted a flurry of AI deals worth billions. We'll get into the details on today's “Marketplace...
What it takes to bring manufacturing to space
President Donald Trump talks a lot about wanting to build more stuff here in the U.S. But the future of manufacturing might not even be on earth, but...
AI is more marketing hype than real capabilities, new book suggests
The excitement around AI has gotten a bit frothy. Those two magic letters are everywhere, promising everything. Authors Emily Bender and Alex Hanna wa...
Mozilla rejects DOJ's remedies in Google search antitrust trial
The remedy phase of one of the antitrust cases against Google wrapped up last week and the judge is expected to issue his decision by August on how th...
The rise of the "Splinternet"
There was a time not so long ago when it seemed like the most consequential conversations in our society were happening on social media. But as the di...
Bytes: Week in Review - RIP Skype
On this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” OpenAI retreats from its pivot to profit after its plan to restructure the business hit some...
Vibe coding is having its moment
Vibe coding is having a moment.
The buzzy new phrase was coined earlier this year by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy to describe his process o...
The human cost of fast shipping
E-commerce sites like Temu and Shein might not be quite as cheap as they were a week ago now that tariffs are kicking in on even small-dollar imports....
Fiverr CEO explains why everyone needs to upskill with AI
In an internal memo to his staff in April, Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman wrote that “AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job too. This is...
Is talking to AI chatbots good for us?
People are using chatbots in all kinds of ways — to search the web, get help with an online purchase, sometimes even for counseling. But there's a lot...
Bytes: Week in Review - Meta joins the AI assistant race
Meta launches its own, dedicated AI app that could go head to head with the likes of ChatGPT. Plus, a massive data leak put California Blue Shield mem...