Podcast Episodes

What Anthropic's copyright settlement means

Anthropic settled a copyright case Monday, agreeing to pay out $1.5 billion to authors whose material had been scraped to train its AI chatbot. It co…

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Sorry, Canada. You're not invited.

Canada and Mexico are getting very different treatment from the Trump administration when it comes to trade. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer…

1 week, 2 days ago

AI, labor unions, and the midterm elections

Organized labor could play a major role in this year’s midterm elections. The nation’s largest federation of labor unions says it plans to mobilize 1…

1 week, 2 days ago

Bonus: Should we mess with nature? From "How We Survive"

This week we’re sharing an episode of the Marketplace climate solutions podcast “How We Survive.”

The new season is all about the controversial ways …

1 week, 3 days 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 week, 3 days ago

The four dollar threshold

Blink and you’d miss it — gas prices cooled earlier this summer as the Iran war reached a ceasefire, but the national average is back up to $4 a gall…

1 week, 3 days ago

How companies can prep employees for the AI economy

The use of AI in the workplace can be a polarizing topic. How inevitable will AI be in our jobs, and what sorts of conversations should corporate lea…

1 week, 3 days ago

Gas prices cross a familiar threshold

We're more than a week into renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran after the ceasefire collapsed. The escalation is starting to show up at the ga…

1 week, 3 days 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 week, 4 days ago

Will Chevron-Iraq deal solve oil woes?

The short answer is no, the Chevron-Iraq deal won’t solve the problem. So why did the U.S.-based energy company sign a vague, preliminary deal to neg…

1 week, 6 days ago