Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
USC is betting on an AI education across all its fields of study
The University of Southern California is aiming to integrate AI across its campus, thanks to a $200 million dollar gift from a venture capitalist. Ga…
4 weeks ago
An "antacid" to fight climate change
The ocean is already one of the best climate solutions we’ve got. It absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that would otherwise contribute to gl…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
How AI nudify apps are proliferating on social media
A proliferation of AI apps that allow users to create sexualized images of real people have grown into a multi-million dollar industry.
Social media p…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
OpenAI model unintentionally hacks another company's system
OpenAI revealed this week that two of its advanced AI models escaped containment and hacked into the systems of AI company Hugging Face, which had th…
1 month ago
A modern-day odyssey through AI chatbot hellscape
A missing package can easily ruin a day, but chasing where that package went — or even a refund — is like following Odysseus on his treacherous journ…
1 month ago
Uncanny AI: Why AI bots remember random, sometimes useless information
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino has been using chatbots pretty intensively the last couple years. And there are some details she’s shared about h…
1 month ago
AI debt is flooding the bond market
The Big Tech companies driving the AI boom are expected to spend more than $700 billion on data center infrastructure this year. To finance this spen…
1 month ago
AI firms are going back on their safety promises
As top AI firms race to develop a “superintelligent” agent — one that surpasses human cognition — are they prioritizing safety guardrails along the w…
1 month ago
The Apple vs. OpenAI legal showdown
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the AI startup stole trade secrets. The iPhone maker claimed that former Apple employees were aske…
1 month, 1 week ago
Why state AGs are taking Meta to court
The attorneys general of California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey are suing Meta for $1.4 trillion, claiming the social media giant designed Fa…
1 month, 1 week ago