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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.

HACE 13 H

China sets its sights on AI leadership

Chinese President Xi Jinping is pushing for the country to be a global leader in artificial intelligence by 2030 as Beijing competes with Washington to gain an edge in advanced technology. The release of AI chatbot DeepSeek, which stunned industry experts in January, gave a boost to China’s hopes of catching up to the U.S. despite restrictions on the advanced chips used to power AI.

7 min
HACE 3 DÍAS

Bytes: Week in Review — Trump officials’ Signal leak, 23andMe goes bankrupt and chatbots take on search engines

AI company Anthropic recently added web search to its chatbot Claude. It joins other artificial intelligence tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT in delivering one clear answer to a web search query instead of pages and pages of links. Plus, 23andMe declared bankruptcy. So what’s gonna happen to all that genetic data? But first — the Signal group chat heard round the world. A Trump administration official appears to have inadvertently invited a journalist into a conversation about sensitive national security issues on the secure messaging app Signal. The app does offer end-to-end encryption, the gold standard for security in consumer-level messaging apps, but that doesn’t make it foolproof for the most sensitive of data. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to break down all these topics for this week’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

13 min
HACE 4 DÍAS

Network effect: Customers help utilities build smarter, more efficient power grid

On today’s episode of “Marketplace Tech,” Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Daniel Cohan, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University, about virtual power plants. These aren’t physical generating stations. They’re more of a network, usually managed by a local utility, that aggregates electricity from different sources like businesses or homes. Essentially, these customers give energy back to the grid or help the utility balance supply and demand. As electricity demand grows, thanks to power-hungry AI data centers, electric cars and extreme weather, some providers are turning to virtual power plants to reduce strain on the grid.

11 min
HACE 5 DÍAS

The SEC invites cryptocurrency supporters and skeptics to the table

Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission held its first-ever crypto roundtable, a discussion with industry leaders and skeptics to answer a grand question: how should the SEC regulate crypto? Should SEC officials regulate crypto tokens like bonds and stocks? The agency under President Donald Trump is taking what many see as a friendlier approach to cryptocurrency and has already dropped a number of lawsuits against various crypto exchanges initiated during the Biden Administration. Axios reporter and author of the Axios Crypto newsletter, Brady Dale, returns to the show to discuss why the question of regulating crypto like a security asset is a very complicated one to answer.

12 min
HACE 6 DÍAS

AI chatbots mimic human anxiety, study finds

There’s a lot of hope that artificially intelligent chatbots could help provide sorely needed mental health support. Early research suggests humanlike responses from large language models could help fill in gaps in services. But there are risks. A recent study found that prompting ChatGPT with traumatic stories — the type a patient might tell a therapist — can induce an anxious response, which could be counterproductive. Ziv Ben-Zion, a clinical neuroscience researcher at Yale University and the University of Haifa, co-authored the study. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked him why AI appears to reflect or even experience the emotions that it’s exposed to.

13 min
24 MAR

Workers hope to steer giant Southern EV battery plant toward unionization

The electric vehicle industry in the Southeast is growing rapidly, with increased sales, charging stations and manufacturing. Buoyed by notable victories in the last couple of years, the United Auto Workers union is revving up efforts to organize the EV and battery sector in the South. One target is a sprawling campus in rural Kentucky that, once completed, will be one of the largest EV battery plants in the world. A supermajority of workers at BlueOval SK has asked the National Labor Relations Board for a vote on joining the United Auto Workers. The nearly $6 billion electric vehicle battery campus in Glendale, Kentucky, is part of a joint venture between Ford and South Korea’s SK On.

7 min
21 MAR

Bytes: Week in Review — Nvidia’s new bot, evaluating AI models in health care, and a health tech company preps its IPO

The stock market has been a tad volatile lately. But this month, the digital physical therapy company Hinge Health filed for an initial public offering. Plus, a new tool out of Stanford University evaluates how various AI models perform in real-world health care. It grades them on tasks from patient education to clinical note generation. But first, Nvidia just hosted its annual GTC confab, where it announced a whole lot of collaborations and, of course, some new and improved chips. Main takeaway: The company has its fingers in a bunch of AI pies. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this with Christina Farr, managing director at Manatt Health.

13 min
20 MAR

More Stanford grads are finding jobs and purpose in defense tech

Stanford University has long been a feeder for the neighboring tech industry with graduates often heading to a brand name of Silicon Valley. But the times, they are a-changin’, according to writer Jasmine Sun. She reported recently for the San Francisco Standard that building tech for the military has become cool on campus. One student, Divya, said her “most effective and moral friends are now working for Palantir.” Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Sun about how this shift compares to when she attended Stanford in the late 2010s.

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Excellent Pod

18/04/2024

Marvin072560

So sad to hear that Ms. Jamali is not a fan of Gin. Our go-to Gin for a Gin Martini (definitely stirred not shake; love 007 but he definitely got it wrong…) is Hendricks. If the Gin is not juniper berry dominant, then it is not preferred, in our humble opinion. Love this podcast!
Running cover for Democratic failure

16 ene

Jimmy C420

All the AI detection in the world won’t save a city from fire, when reservoirs have been left empty for over a year, budgets are cut by millions, hundreds of firetrucks are inoperable due to lack of maintenance, and competent officials are overlooked in favor of D.E.I hired who are incompetent and unqualified. Typical NPR programming making excuses for failed Democrat policies.
Super dull

14 ene

AmyinMaine13

I was exited to listen to this podcast since it was advertised on the Hubspot's Daily Show. I was so disappointed. I found it to be factual but super dull and boring. Nothing engaging and the hosts/commentators sound like they all were trained at the same broadcasting school - you know that typical inflection. They don't sound like real people and they're nothing like the Daily. Can't believe that show recommended them. I'm 0 for 2 on their recommendations. Guess you can only have one really fun podcast about business and tech!
Relevant, condensed bits of information, with annoying comments

04/10/2024

Scarbez

Also, the best financial tech review podcast intro music. As everything in the Marketplace podcast series, it has a strong "leftist" bias and little comments that become annoying. Like in today's episode they seemed to just get super happy that a tech company lost ~10% market value... or that people are leaving OpenAI, because you know they want to be for profit now, and making lots of money is bad... It could be a very good program
Great podcast!

29/12/2023

delaDB

Great podcast! Ed Zitron sounds awfully negative and pessimistic though - not the best podcast guest!
Mid episode ads are broken

14/10/2023

almennur

I was uneasy with this pod before with the opening and closing ad segments that easily took up 40% of runtime. Now, the producers insert super disruptive ads in the middle of the episode. There’s no intro/outro to this new block and rhythmically it’s very confusing to interrupt a story/interview in a place that was not planned for any break.
Too much advertising

13/11/2023

K and the B

Unfollowed because of excessive advertising.
Four ads in a 6-minute podcast

04/10/2023

AwesomePossum3

No thanks.
Quality decline

25/09/2023

pwb in dc

Not as good as in the past. Topics, guests & reporting, just so so. Lacks engagement.
Love this show, but...

27/04/2023

DCMorseCode

I simply ADORE this and the broader Market Place team and have been listening for years. But the emphasis of AI-related episodes is getting to be too much and annoying. I understand the significance of the burgeoning technology but it's almost every day that the episodes focus solely on AI/chat tech. There is still plenty of other material to cover! I've had to start skipping the AI/chat episodes. They're somewhat redundant.

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.