Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.
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Finance is being pulled apart by the forces of frontier technology. From AI, to blockchain and DeFi, mixed reality, chatbots, neobanks, and roboadvisors — the industry will never be the same. Here is the blueprint for navigating the shift.
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Smart Strategies: AI Meets Marketing explores the intersection of cutting-edge AI technology and innovative marketing techniques. Each episode dives deep into how AI is transforming the way businesses engage customers, optimize campaigns, perform daily workflows, and drive growth. Whether you’re a seasoned marketer or just starting, this podcast provides actionable insights and expert advice to help you leverage AI for smarter marketing strategies.
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Artificial intelligence is a rapidly growing field of technology and has been integrated into many aspects of our lives. From facial recognition to automated customer service, AI can be found in almost every industry. One of the most impressive and exciting applications of Artificial Intelligence is OpenAI's ChatGPT, the world's best AI chatbot. Let's explore this amazing technology and learn more about the capabilities and potential applications of ChatGPT Online at Chatgptonline.io.
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Hosted by aigo.ai co-founder, Srini Pagidyala, the Inside Innovator’s Mind - A Customer Engagement Podcast, features North America’s most innovative & bold leaders giving us an insider's view on what it takes to bring about engaging customer experiences that increase loyalty, market share, wallet share and significantly reduce cost to service customers, while creating brand evangelists. This show is sponsored by aigo.ai, the world’s first and only chatbot with a brain. Learn more at: https:/ ...
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The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck, is a series of conversations with leaders from across the Machine Learning, AI, & Data landscape hosted by leading AI & data investor and Partner at FirstMark Capital, Matt Turck.
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Imagine your service business growing beyond client work—running smoother, scaling faster, and turning your expertise into digital products that actually work. Join Blessing Richardson, a tech strategist who helps micro-business founders and leaders build custom tools that scale their impact—without getting lost in the tech. From mini-tools to full-blown apps, she breaks down how to use automation, AI, and smart workflows to turn your ideas into real, usable solutions. Come for the clarity, ...
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Why PeopleBots will Make You Rich (And Your Competitors Obsolete!)..Product Review.
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In this podcast episode, we dive into People Bots—the game-changing hybrid of AI chatbots and human intelligence. We talk about how these conversational bots solve customer problems faster, boost satisfaction, and drive sales by blending automation with a personal touch. If you’re looking to upgrade your website and improve customer interactions, this is the must-have tech every business needs. Tune in to discover why People Bots are redefining customer service and keeping businesses ahead o ...
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Helping small business use Messenger chat, video, and voice to create their brand
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An entertaining look at the ever evolving world of AI and bots
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What will the world and education look like in 2030? In this podcast I talk to some interesting people that we can learn from and who can inspire us. Education is the most important tool that can change the world. It not only brings out more opportunities, and generates the economy and wealth, it is also extremely important for solving problems and peace. What conflict can't be solved by better education and mutual understanding?
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Improving digital skills mastery will make you stand out in a competitive business environment. Digital skills mastery lab offers valuable knowledge that will help you better understand the value of learning digital skills.
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Welcome to 'AI Unplugged,' the podcast where we dive deep into the world of Artificial Intelligence. Join us as we explore cutting-edge advancements, ethical considerations, and real-world applications of AI. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a professional in the field, or just curious about how AI is shaping our future, this podcast offers insightful discussions with experts, industry leaders, and innovators. Tune in to stay informed and inspired by the limitless potential of AI.
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Elevate self-service & support with AI-powered apps built on a unified cognitive search and insights platform
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The Digital Strategist Podcast is a Minnesota Marketing Podcast that grows Local Business Owners and Minneapolis Freelancers' brands online. Hosted by the Local Minneapolis Digital Strategist Jake Goss-Kuehn, a digital strategist for Web Strategy Viking, you'll get actionable tips, strategies, and system based marketing that moves the needle.
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Welcome to the "Artificially Smart Marketing Podcast," where we explore the exciting world of artificial intelligence and its impact on marketing. Every week, we feature in-depth conversations with industry leaders, technology experts, and marketing professionals. Our guests share their insights and experiences on how AI is transforming marketing and providing businesses with a competitive edge, keeping you up-to-date on the latest trends and best practices in AI-powered marketing. Whether y ...
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400 Startups Building the Post-Web Economy, with Outlier Ventures Founder Jamie Burke
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1:01:30Lex chats with Jamie Burke - founder of Outlier Ventures, about the current state and future of Web3, decentralized finance, and the metaverse. Jamie highlights Outlier Ventures' impressive growth, with a portfolio of around 400 startups, and discusses successful projects like IOTA and Fetch.ai. The conversation delves into the open metaverse, emph…
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Bytes: Week in Review - Meta joins the AI assistant race
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11:56Meta launches its own, dedicated AI app that could go head to head with the likes of ChatGPT. Plus, a massive data leak put California Blue Shield members' most sensitive medical details at risk. And how is the health tech investment sector navigating all the recent economic uncertainty from the Trump Administration’s latest trade war? Marketplace’…
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Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
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41:32Sigma Computing recently hit $100M in ARR — planning on doubling revenue again this year— and in this episode, CEO Mike Palmer reveals exactly how they did it by throwing out the old BI playbook. We open with the provocative claim that “the world did not need another BI tool,” and dig into why the last 20 years of business intelligence have been “b…
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When an AI internet search competes against a human internet search
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9:18When President Jimmy Carter died late last year, the foundation that runs Wikipedia noticed something unusual: the flood of interest in the late president created a content bottleneck, slowing load times for about an hour. Wikipedia is built to handle spikes in traffic like this, according to the Wikimedia Foundation, but it's also dealing with a s…
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Meta's news blackout in Canada causes problems during election
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6:37Canada's liberal party and its leader Mark Carney are set to remain in control after the country held federal elections Monday. They were the first since Canada adopted the Online News Act in 2023, which requires online content providers — like social media platforms — to negotiate some sort of "fair" payment to news publishers in exchange for usin…
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A battery farm in the Bronx could help clean up New York's power grid
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4:29One of the most powerful tools in the fight against climate change is the money sitting in investment portfolios - especially the trillions of dollars invested on behalf of public retirees. That’s money that could continue to fund fossil fuel development, or help pay for climate solutions instead. New York City has implemented an ambitious Net Zero…
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Leyla Isik, a professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University, is also a senior scientist on a new study looking at how good AI is at reading social cues. She and her research team took short videos of people doing things — two people chatting, two babies on a playmat, two people doing a synchronized skate routine — and showed them to hu…
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Bytes: Week in Review - OpenAI's for-profit troubles, FTC sues Uber and how VCs are weathering Trump tariffs
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12:52It's the last Friday in April and it's time for Marketplace Tech Bytes Week in Review. This week, we'll talk about how the Federal Trade Commission is suing Uber over its subscription service. Plus, how the VC world is navigating the uncertainty created by the trade war. But first, a nonprofit pivot is facing some challenges. Open AI, the maker of …
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Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search
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52:11A week after OpenAI’s o3/o4-mini volleyed with Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash, I sat down with Arvind Jain— ex-Google search luminary, Rubrik co-founder, and now CEO of Glean —just as his company released its agentic reasoning platform and swirled with rumors of a new round at a $7 billion valuation. We open on that whirlwind: why the model race is acce…
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Is community fact-checking the future of social media moderation?
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6:54TikTok is going to be testing a new crowd-sourced fact-checking system called Footnotes. It’s seems similar to the Community Notes systems already in use on other social media, such as X and Facebook. TikTok is also keeping its current fact-checking systems in place. The way these community systems generally work is, say someone makes a post statin…
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Cities take the lead in battling rent-setting algorithms
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8:20The use of algorithmic software in setting residential rents has come under scrutiny in recent years. In 2024, the Joe Biden administration sued real estate company RealPage, alleging that its algorithm, which aggregates and analyzes private data on the housing market, enables landlords to collude in pricing and stifles competition. There's no word…
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The $500MM Startup Making Payroll Painless, with Gusto Co-Founder Joshua Reeves
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42:44Lex interviews Josh Reeves, co-founder of Gusto, a company specializing in payroll, HR, and benefits solutions for small businesses. Josh shares his journey from academia to entrepreneurship, highlighting the challenges and strategies involved in building Gusto. The discussion covers the evolution of technology from Web 2.0, the importance of under…
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This company uses AI to make workers AI-savvy — and keep their jobs
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10:36We've sometimes wished we could have our own Wendy Rhodes, the performance coach at the hedge fund on the TV show “Billions.” Most workplaces, however, aren't bringing in billions and can't afford a Wendy. But an upskilling platform called Multiverse uses artificial intelligence to provide personalized, on-the-job guidance. Its AI coach, Atlas, hel…
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Mobile apps are failing users with disabilities
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9:27Developers of mobile apps have "room for improvement" in making their platforms fully accessible for disabled users, according to a new report from the software company ArcTouch and the digital research platform Fable. It looked at fifty popular apps and assessed them for features that improve accessibility like screen reading, text size adjustabil…
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Bytes: Week in Review — Meta's antitrust trial, Nvidia's export restraint, and Jack Dorsey's hot take on IP law
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9:40NVIDIA gets caught up in the trade war, the titans of Twitter/X debate intellectual property law — and the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta kicks off in court. We're digging into all of it on today's Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, about…
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Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
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1:15:46In this episode, we sit down with Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box, for a wide-ranging conversation that’s equal parts insightful, technical, and fun. We kick things off with a candid discussion about what it’s like to be a public company CEO during times of volatility, and then rewind to the early days of Box — from dorm room experiments to …
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For the 2034 Olympics, Utah wants air taxis instead of Ubers
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3:53Flying cars have been a staple of science-fiction visions of the future for ages. Perhaps most famously in “Back to the Future II.” The film may have overshot the mark a bit with Doc and Marty McFly navigating full-on air highways in 2015. But Utah is pushing for the technology to take off by 2034, when the state hosts the Olympic and paralympic wi…
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Can the U.S. get around China's restrictions on rare earth minerals?
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6:21China is responsible for most of the world’s processing of rare earth metals and minerals, but its new export restrictions have raised the stakes for U.S. efforts to build its own supply chain and processing industry. Barbara Arnold, a professor of mining engineering at Penn State, says there are options, but they require time, development and inve…
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Virginia's reliance on surveillance tech raises data privacy questions
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8:01Surveillance technology like automated license plate readers has become commonplace in policing. They've made it easier to locate stolen vehicles and track suspects, but they've also raised concerns about civil liberties. Cardinal News Executive Editor Jeff Schwaner took a 300-mile drive through the state to see how often his car would be recorded.…
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One area where artificial intelligence has been swiftly adopted is software coding. Google even boasted last year that more than a quarter of its code was generated by AI. But the technology is also generating challenges to the traditional technical job interview, where candidates are given programming problems as a way to assess their skills. And …
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Reading Parties: A Discussion with Ben Bradbury, Founder of "Reading Rhythms"
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51:27In this podcast interview, Richard Lucas hosts Ben Bradbury, founder of Reading Rhythms, to discuss the back story leading to founding Ben's his unique reading-themed events. Ben sharing his entrepreneurial journey, including early influences and the inspiration behind Reading Rhythms, which aims to reduce loneliness through shared reading experien…
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Wall Street Billionaire and Philanthropist Gives Advice for the Exceptionally Ambitious
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41:00Robert Rosenkranz was described by Bill Bowder as “the most powerful titan on Wall Street you’ve probably never heard of." As CEO of Delphi Capital Management the value of its assets under management grew to U$20 billion, and its value grew 100 fold. While his book The Stoic Capitalist (Bloomsbury, 2025) – has the tag line “advice for the exception…
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Bytes: Week in Review — How tariffs impact consumer gadgets, e-commerce and the AI boom
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9:50The tariff rollercoaster has created a lot of uncertainty in the tech industry. We're digging into how its playing out for makers of consumer tech, e-commerce platforms and AI. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, about all these topics for this week’s Tech Bytes.…
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Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
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1:23:41In this episode, we sit down with Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, for an in-depth conversation about the company’s transformation from a cloud analytics platform into a comprehensive AI data cloud. Sridhar shares insights on Snowflake’s shift toward open formats like Apache Iceberg and why monetizing storage was, in his view, a strategic misst…
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Etsy's AI curates the search for the perfect thing
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7:32Etsy, the online marketplace known for selling one-of-a-kind handmade items, is hoping that artificial intelligence can boost sales of those crafty creations. The site has been selling less stuff and recently announced a plan to double down on high-quality and unique merchandise over cheap and mass-produced. Now, it's launching AI-curated product c…
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After President Donald Trump's launched his “Liberation Day” tariff agenda, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite stock index suffered its biggest plunge since March 2020. The so-called Magnificent 7 — Nvidia, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Tesla — lost a combined $1.8 trillion of market value in two days. The tariff-induced downturn in busin…
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Microsoft wants to be the world's AI platform
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9:31Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. The company started as a small software startup co-founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, garage. It went on to revolutionize personal computing, business productivity and now — it hopes — artificial intelligence with its big investment in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGP…
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How to ethically design a nuclear power plant
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10:11Rising demand for electricity, largely to power the artificial intelligence boom, has stirred a resurgence in nuclear energy. Older plants like Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania are being brought out of retirement, but there’s also investment in smaller-scale reactors with different designs. The fresh interest in nuclear generation has also renewed…
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Reinventing Traditional Services through Modern Platforms, with David Snider CEO of Harness Wealth
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38:59Lex interviews David Snider - founder and CEO of Harness Wealth. David shares his extensive fintech journey, including his pivotal role at Compass, a real estate technology firm. He discusses the challenges of aligning agents with new technology and the evolution of Compass's business model to empower agents with better tools and incentives. Transi…
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Bytes: Week in Review — TikTok’s new bidders, Tesla sales slump and OpenAI raises $40 billion
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10:14OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT — keeps raising more money, this time in a $40 billion round led by SoftBank. We’ll get into the strings attached in Marketplace “Tech Bytes — Week in Review.” Plus, what’s going on with Tesla’s sales slump? And how much is its polarizing CEO, Elon Musk, to blame? But first, the clock is ticking on a TikTok sale. The e…
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Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
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1:00:45In this fascinating episode, we dive deep into the race towards true AI intelligence, AGI benchmarks, test-time adaptation, and program synthesis with star AI researcher (and philosopher) Francois Chollet, creator of Keras and the ARC AGI benchmark, and Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier and now co-founder with Francois of both the ARC Prize and the …
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Why LGBTQ+ teens, young adults feel safer online
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6:04There’s been mounting concern in recent years about the harms of social media use for kids. The sites can be addictive, ripe for cyberbullying and contribute to increased rates of body dysmorphia, anxiety and depression. The growing evidence has led at least a dozen states to pass laws attempting to restrict access to online platforms for kids. The…
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Worry over worker visas goes viral in Silicon Valley
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11:45Registration for the H-1B visa lottery closed last week. The tech industry has long been the biggest beneficiary of this program for specialized workers. But uncertainty has been spreading due to the Trump administration’s restrictive stance on immigration policy. Even legal immigrants have felt the crackdown. It’s led some companies to advise thei…
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Yes, Napster is still alive and kicking. The peer-to-peer file-sharing company that became synonymous with music piracy in the early 2000s was bought by a company called Infinite Reality Labs last week for about $207 million. It’s the latest in a string of attempts to revive the brand. After it was shut down by the courts in 2001 and declared bankr…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is pushing for the country to be a global leader in artificial intelligence by 2030 as Beijing competes with Washington to gain an edge in advanced technology. The release of AI chatbot DeepSeek, which stunned industry experts in January, gave a boost to China’s hopes of catching up to the U.S. despite restrictions on t…
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Bytes: Week in Review — Trump officials’ Signal leak, 23andMe goes bankrupt and chatbots take on search engines
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10:28AI company Anthropic recently added web search to its chatbot Claude. It joins other artificial intelligence tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT in delivering one clear answer to a web search query instead of pages and pages of links. Plus, 23andMe declared bankruptcy. So what’s gonna happen to all that genetic data? But first — the Signal group chat…
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Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
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59:14In 2022, Lin Qiao decided to leave Meta, where she was managing several hundred engineers, to start Fireworks AI. In this episode, we sit down with Lin for a deep dive on her work, starting with her leadership on PyTorch, now one of the most influential machine learning frameworks in the industry, powering research and production at scale across th…
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Network effect: Customers help utilities build smarter, more efficient power grid
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8:41On today’s episode of “Marketplace Tech,” Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Daniel Cohan, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University, about virtual power plants. These aren’t physical generating stations. They’re more of a network, usually managed by a local utility, that aggregates electricity from different sources like b…
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The SEC invites cryptocurrency supporters and skeptics to the table
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9:04Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission held its first-ever crypto roundtable, a discussion with industry leaders and skeptics to answer a grand question: how should the SEC regulate crypto? Should SEC officials regulate crypto tokens like bonds and stocks? The agency under President Donald Trump is taking what many see as a friendlier …
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How Metronome is Building the Revenue Engine for AI, with CEO Scott Woody
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49:32Lex interviews Scott Woody, CEO and founder of Metronome, a usage-based billing platform. Scott shares his journey from academia to entrepreneurship, detailing his experiences at UC Berkeley, D.E. Shaw, and Stanford, where he studied biophysics. His tenure at Dropbox, where he tackled billing system challenges, inspired the creation of Metronome. T…
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AI chatbots mimic human anxiety, study finds
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10:31There’s a lot of hope that artificially intelligent chatbots could help provide sorely needed mental health support. Early research suggests humanlike responses from large language models could help fill in gaps in services. But there are risks. A recent study found that prompting ChatGPT with traumatic stories — the type a patient might tell a the…
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Workers hope to steer giant Southern EV battery plant toward unionization
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4:14The electric vehicle industry in the Southeast is growing rapidly, with increased sales, charging stations and manufacturing. Buoyed by notable victories in the last couple of years, the United Auto Workers union is revving up efforts to organize the EV and battery sector in the South. One target is a sprawling campus in rural Kentucky that, once c…
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Bytes: Week in Review — Nvidia’s new bot, evaluating AI models in health care, and a health tech company preps its IPO
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10:37The stock market has been a tad volatile lately. But this month, the digital physical therapy company Hinge Health filed for an initial public offering. Plus, a new tool out of Stanford University evaluates how various AI models perform in real-world health care. It grades them on tasks from patient education to clinical note generation. But first,…
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More Stanford grads are finding jobs and purpose in defense tech
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7:48Stanford University has long been a feeder for the neighboring tech industry with graduates often heading to a brand name of Silicon Valley. But the times, they are a-changin’, according to writer Jasmine Sun. She reported recently for the San Francisco Standard that building tech for the military has become cool on campus. One student, Divya, said…
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Ransomware’s new strategy: naming and shaming victims
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9:11Federal officials are warning consumers against a type of cyberattack that’s been on the rise. It’s called Medusa, a ransomware program that uses tactics like phishing to infect a target’s system and encrypt their data, which hackers then threaten to publicly release unless a ransom is paid. Medusa is just one example of how hackers are evolving th…
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You could say once your company becomes a verb, you’ve arrived. And “Venmo me” is a pretty common phrase these days. Mobile payment apps like Venmo, along with Zelle and Cash App, are becoming pretty widespread, especially among young people. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, consumers under the age of 25 were twice as likely to hav…
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Schools are using AI tracking software on student devices, recent investigation shows
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13:03Back when the pandemic first hit, many students received tablets or laptops from their schools. Schools also wanted to know what students were doing on those devices, so demand for AI-powered software to monitor students’ digital activities also grew. That surveillance software is the subject of a new investigation from the Associated Press andTthe…
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Bytes: Week in Review – AI that reads emotions, Waymo expands its services, and the industry pushes back on federal tech cuts
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12:37We are taking a look at how the tech industry is pushing back against federal cuts to artificial intelligence and science. Plus, Waymo is expanding its self-driving services in Silicon Valley. But first, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba this week released an AI model called R1-Omni, which the company says can read human emotions. Alibaba shared a d…
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Futurist couldn’t predict our inability to plan for the future
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7:38This week, we’ve been exploring the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, we spoke about what might happen with futurist Amy Webb, the CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group. She predicted, among other things, that we would give up more personal data around our health and location. Then on the show in 2021, she said more definiti…
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The pandemic made teachers learn to love tech
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5:49In the spring of 2020, 77% of American public schools moved to online distance learning when the pandemic hit, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to the pandemic, you could say that schools were trickling into the digital age. Then, when COVID changed everything, they were basically tossed into it. Some educators adapted…
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