Daniel Shin

5 days ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

May 9, 2025Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”Google has been ruled a monopoly, not once but twice — first in its search business and then in its ad business. We're diving into the latest move by the Department of Justice on today's “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”Plus, OpenAI retreats from it's pivot to profit after its plan to restructure the business hit some snags.

6 days ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

May 8, 2025More programmers and engineers are adopting a practice known as “vibe coding,” a technique where the coder tells an AI assistant what to build based on what they feel will work. Clarence Huang, vice president of technology at Intuit and an early adopter of vibe coding, explains why he thinks the practice is the next evolution of software development. Vibe coding is having a moment.

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

May 6, 2025Kaufman recently sent out a memo warning that “AI is coming for your jobs,” including his role as CEO of the freelance hiring platform. It's definitely not the kind of message most workers want to see hit their inbox from the higher ups but that's exactly what Micha Kaufman, founder and CEO of the freelance platform Fiverr, wrote in an internal memo to his staff in April. “AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call.

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Nancy Farghalli |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

May 5, 2025A new study from MIT Media Lab suggests extensive use of AI chatbots correlates with higher feelings of loneliness, dependence and lower socialization, according to Cathy Fang, one of the authors of the study. People are using chatbots in all kinds of ways — to search the web, get help with an online purchase, sometimes even for counseling. But there's a lot about this human-AI interaction we don't fully understand.

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Meghan McCarty Carino |Kelly Silvera |Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin

May 2, 2025Christina Farr, managing partner at Manatt Health, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”Earlier this week marked 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term. And we're checking in with the health tech investment sector to see how all the changes are affecting their business on today's “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”Plus, a massive data leak put California Blue Shield members' most sensitive medical details at risk.