Podcast Episodes

How Anthropic is tracking AI's impact on the labor market

Who is using AI? And what are they using it for? Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, has been trying to answer these questions to better underst…

6 hours ago

Why Boston Dynamics is deploying robot dogs at the World Cup

The resemblance to an actual dog is loose but the quadrupedal robot dogs known as “Spot” from Boston Dynamics do have four legs. They're often used t…

1 day, 6 hours ago

Hospitals pull back on robotic nursing assistants

There’s a longstanding nursing shortage in the U.S. that's only expected to get worse. Some hospitals have experimented with robotic nursing assistan…

2 days, 6 hours ago

Why SpaceX stock soared, then stumbled

SpaceX stock prices fell back to earth this week after they skyrocketed in the wake of the IPO a couple weeks ago. Plus, why a Google AI subsidiary i…

5 days, 6 hours ago

Stanford launches AI economy indicator to match AI's pace

We here at Marketplace love indicators that give us insights into which direction the economy is moving. But AI is evolving fast and it can be hard f…

6 days, 6 hours ago

Tech companies are turning to HBCUs to host AI data centers

Big Tech is looking for land to build its AI data centers. HBCUs are looking for new funding after federal cuts.

And partnerships between them, like o…

1 week ago

Why this Silicon Valley priest wants to teach AI right from wrong

In late May, Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas. His first papal encyclical is an appeal for a more human-centered approach to artificial inte…

1 week, 1 day ago

Nurses want a seat at the table when it comes to AI in healthcare

Nurses have a tough job. AI tools promise to take care of some of the more mundane and repetitive tasks that eat up so much time and, by extension, m…

1 week, 2 days ago

Snap's new smart glasses received mixed reactions — mainly on aesthetics

Meta responded to plummeting morale this week with a pledge to do better with company snacks. Plus, the new AI augmented reality smart glasses everyo…

1 week, 5 days ago

Online casting scams hit Hollywood

AI has ushered in a golden age for scams. There are the deepfake kidnapping calls, the vibecoded ecommerce websites and one of the latest, according …

1 week, 6 days ago