Daniel Shin

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Nova Safo |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

Jun 13, 2025Anita Ramaswamy, columnist for The Information, joins Marketplace’s Nova Safo for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”Today on “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we're looking at Apple's latest software and operating system updates. Also, there's a tentative labor deal between video game actors and studios. And we'll remember legendary Apple software engineer Bill Atkinson, who died at the age of 74.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Nova Safo |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

Jun 11, 2025Gabriel Daros, contributor at the online news site Rest of World, says Brazilians are piloting a digital wallet where their data is stored and could then be sold to online companies. There's a trial run taking place over a type of digital wallet for data. Consumers are in control, and they can sell their data to the highest bidder. This trial run is taking place in Brazil, the first country to try something like this on a national scale.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Nova Safo |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

Jun 10, 2025Marketplace contributor Daniel Ackerman says deep-sea mining companies are innovating for how to efficiently mine rare Earth minerals — but scaling this work is still a big question. The International Energy Agency projects the global market value of critical minerals could reach almost $800 billion by 2040. That's because we must have them for the electrified future. And right now, China is a dominant supplier.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Nova Safo |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

There’s a lawsuit right now that’s testing the question of whether AI chatbots are protected by the First Amendment. But before we get into it, a warning that our story today includes discussion of suicide. Last year, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took his own life, after having months of conversations with a chatbot powered by Character.AI. Its parent company, Character Technologies, operates a bunch of character-driven chatbots.

3 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Nova Safo |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, wants it to be less human. Plus, a federal judge temporarily blocked a law in Florida that would ban kids under 14 from getting social media accounts. But first, Meta announced an energy deal with one of the country's biggest operators of nuclear reactors. Marketplace’s Nova Safo is joined by Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at the venture capital firm Collab Capital, to break down these tech stories from the week.