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  1. Colleges turn to video essays to counter AI-written submissions

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    Colleges turn to video essays to counter AI-written submissions

    Colleges and universities are dealing with a growing problem of college admission essays being written by artificial intelligence. Rather than try to figure out which essays are AI-generated, some schools are turning to an alternative approach: Have students submit a video instead. Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with Anne Kim, senior editor at Washington Monthly magazine who recently wrote about this new strategy that's gaining steam in higher education.

    11 min
  2. Can an AI chatbot change your political beliefs?

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    Can an AI chatbot change your political beliefs?

    Researchers at several universities tested how successful artificial intelligence can be at political persuasion, and found some AI chatbots were 40-50% more successful than a static message at getting people to change their views. And those views often stayed changed weeks later. Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with David Rand, one of the researchers involved in the study who’s also a professor of information science and marketing management at Cornell University.

    6 min
  3. Bytes: Week in Review - Big Tech/small tech divide over $100K visa fee

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    Bytes: Week in Review - Big Tech/small tech divide over $100K visa fee

    On this week’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review, Nova Safo speaks with Axios tech policy reporter Maria Curi about the details and lingering unknowns of President Donald Trump's new, $100,000 fee on incoming H-1B visas, how secret service authorities dismantled a network of more than 100,000 SIM cards that could have been used to disrupt communications on a massive scale and why French fans of the video game franchise “Tomb Raider” were up in arms over an AI-generated voice.

    12 min
  4. Car dealerships face new barriers to EV tax credits

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    Car dealerships face new barriers to EV tax credits

    The EV tax credit expires September 30, and Americans have been rushing to take advantage before the deadline. But according to reporting from Marketplace’s Henry Epp, many dealerships are facing new friction when processing tax credits with the IRS. Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with Epp about the new IRS requirements and how dealerships are handling the changes.

    8 min
  5. AI cyberattacks pose special risks for small and medium businesses

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    AI cyberattacks pose special risks for small and medium businesses

    Tony Pietrocola, president of the cybersecurity company AgileBlue, says cybercriminals are using artifical intelligence to generate deepfake video and audio calls, making the cyber threats more sophisticated and harder to catch.

    9 min
  6. A golden opportunity for tech defense firms

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    A golden opportunity for tech defense firms

    There’s a race going on among tech firms — big and small — to join in the construction of what President Trump has dubbed the Golden Dome, a missile defense system similar to Israel’s Iron Dome. Tens of billions of dollars in military contracts are at stake. In fact, the total cost might be in the trillions and the project could stretch a decade. The technology and scale needed to make this all happen is, so far, largely unproven. And a whole host of tech firms are trying to show that they can help with the very complex undertaking. Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with Sheera Frenkel, reporter at the New York Times, about some of the tech that would make this whole system work.

    9 min

  7. 22 SEP

    She fell in love with an AI chatbot. Now, she’s a ‘cyberspace widow.’

    Here’s cautionary tale for you, out of China, about a young woman who says she fell in love with an artificial intelligence chatbot. There have been well-publicized instances of people seeking companionship from chatbots and it leading to tragedy. In this instance, it caused heartbreak. The story involves the Chinese AI firm Deepseek which, earlier this year, launched a chatbot that's almost as good as its American rivals. Soon after the launch, a young woman began a conversation with that chatbot. Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak takes the story from there.

    4 min
  8. Bytes: Week in Review — ChatGPT vs. Claude, Nvidia in the hot seat, and Hollywood’s latest AI lawsuit

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    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 Alvarado.

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