Podcast Episodes

AI's role in human productivity and prosperity

Simon Johnson, Nobel-winning economist, joined Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to explain his current thinking about AI and inequality. He says the tech could bring productivity gains, but they m…

Published on 5 months ago

Small tweaks to AI prompts can have significant impacts on output

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks to Sayash Kapoor, a PhD candidate at Princeton and co-author of “AI Snake Oil." He says small tweaks to AI chatbots can often have big, unpredictable effect…

Published on 5 months ago

Apps that match truckers and loads are changing freight transport

In Canada, road freight is part of the backbone of the economy — historically moving about four-fifths of all goods across the country, with demand growing. But trucking is changing, with digital fre…

Published on 5 months ago

The growing market for cool wearables to help beat the heat

Temperatures this summer have been hotter than usual, a trend we have come to expect with climate change as records are continually surpassed. 

While many of us can ride out extreme heat in the comfor…

Published on 5 months ago

Bytes: Week in Review — Trump's new AI executive orders, Google seeks licensing deals with news publishers, and NASA employees dissent against budget cuts

NASA employees protest budget cuts, Google reportedly eyes licensing deals with 20 national news organizations, and President Donald Trump signed three executive orders on AI this week. Marketplace’s…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Defense billions flow into drone tech

This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC.

High-flying and high-tech, the very latest in drone technology took to the skies over an airfield near the Danish city of Odense.

At the Internatio…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

IRS data deal with ICE raises privacy alarms

ProPublica has recently discovered blueprints for an automated computer program that could potentially share millions of IRS taxpayer records with ICE, as the Trump administration continues to step u…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The AI talent wars have begun

You might have heard Meta has been on a bit of a hiring spree recently as it tries to build out its new AI Superintelligence team. The company has reportedly been offering hundreds of thousands of do…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

What the "Big Beautiful Bill" means for U.S. energy

With the passage of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, numerous Biden-era clean energy incentives will begin to phase out. Many of those incentives were aimed at onshoring energy and battery m…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Bytes: Week in Review - Crypto Week

This week on Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review, leaders of tech, energy and private equity promised to invest more than $90 billion to build an AI hub Pennsylvania. Plus, the Trump Administratio…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago