Podcast Episodes

Raising the “speed limit” on AI’s “information highway”

Billions of dollars has been poured into the AI economy in recent years. As part of a new series about what the AI economy means for you, Marketplace…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX eyes an IPO, community members want legal commitments from Micron, and YouTube to ditch AI slop

A Micron memory chip factory in upstate New York is wrangling with local groups who want legal assurances the project will benefit the local communit…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

Unraveling the complex knot of an AI-generated hoax

In the era of AI, sometimes a story is really just too good to be true, even if the initial evidence suggests otherwise.

And as artificially engineere…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

Welcome to the 'infocalypse'

Information Apocalypse Now.

AI content is flooding social feeds and its getting increasingly hard to determine what is real versus what is fake.

Aviv …

2 months, 4 weeks ago

How "surveillance pricing" charges one online customer more than another for the same item

Consumers have heard of “dynamic pricing,” when the prices are based on demand within a single moment. But whether they know it or not, they’re also …

3 months ago

The 'biohacking' trend that has tech workers experimenting on themselves

In an industry known for pushing the bounds of human innovation, tech elites are now trying to push the bounds of their own bodies. The hot new bioha…

3 months ago

Bytes: Week in Review – New chip exports for China, Microsoft to pay electricity for AI data centers, and Gemini will power Apple’s AI

Those massive AI data centers going in across the country can use as much energy as an entire city. President Trump said this week he wants tech comp…

3 months ago

Teaching students to 'be better than a robot'

When it comes to AI, educators biggest worry: cheating.

With the click of a button, students can form papers, generate test answers or even finish the…

3 months ago

This Swiss city wants to become the bitcoin capital of Europe

The pretty Swiss lakeside town of Lugano has set out to become Europe’s bitcoin capital, with the aim of attracting bitcoin companies and the cryptoc…

3 months ago

AI is eating up the world's computing memory

Much like graphics processing units, high bandwidth memory is essential for training and running AI. It's paired with all those NVIDIA chips that hav…

3 months, 1 week ago