Podcast Episodes

ICE uses insurance fraud database to search for deportation targets

Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Joseph Cox, a reporter at the tech news site 404 Media, about his recent reporting on how ICE is uses ISO ClaimSearch, among other databases, to find d…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Right to repair hits the battlefield

Know how some companies intentionally make it hard for customers to fix their own gadgets? In the armed forces, as military contractors consolidate and equipment becomes increasingly software-driven,…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

From 'rizz' to 'unalive': How social media algorithms are changing the way we talk

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Adam Aleksic, author of the new book “Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language." He’s a trained linguist and also an influenc…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Federal tax incentives could mean more tech research and innovation

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Rebecca Lester, a professor of accounting at Stanford, about a tax provision within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that could further tech R&D and inno…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Bytes: Week in Review — X CEO steps down, SCOTUS greenlights age verification law, and tariffs on copper

X CEO Linda Yaccarino leaves the social media giant on the heels of antisemitic posts from AI chatbot Grok. SCOTUS rejects a challenge to a Texas law for age verification online. President Trump this…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Pay-per-crawl model would make AI firms pay for the content they scrape

For years, AI crawlers have scraped data and content from the internet for free. But last week, Cloudflare attempted to change that. With an update to its web services, the tech company keeps AI craw…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Are we “flying blind” into peak hurricane season?

The National Weather Service lost some 600 positions early in the second Trump administration, through early retirements and layoffs. Now the agency says it’s working to fill some “mission-critical” …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Could AI be a peacekeeper of the future?

As technology has advanced, the ways countries fight wars has changed drastically. Now, AI companies are hoping technology can also play peacekeeper and prevent the next global conflict.

Anadyr Horizo…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

One in five consumers are using AI daily

More than half of all Americans have used artificial intelligence tools recently, according to a study published by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures. And one in five people use it d…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Bytes: Week in Review - AI regulation ban dies, renewable energy credits hit and Amazon’s millionth robot

On this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” Marketplace’s Nova Safo and Paresh Dave, senior writer at WIRED, discuss Amazon releasing its 1 millionth robot at one of its warehouses. Plus…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago