Meghan McCarty Carino

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

May 14, 2025Alex Hanna and Emily Bender, coauthors of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want," say current AI systems aren't democratizing creativity and labor, but rather cheapening it, while also preventing consumers from owning the data collected on them. The excitement around AI has gotten a bit frothy. Those two magic letters are everywhere, promising everything.

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

May 13, 2025Laura Chambers, CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, which makes the Firefox browser, says the Department of Justice’s proposed remedies in the Google search antitrust trial would only hurt independent browser companies. The remedy phase of one of the antitrust cases against Google wrapped up last week and the judge is expected to issue his decision by August on how the company must address its monopoly in search.

6 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.

1 week 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 |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado

May 7, 2025Theo Wayt, reporter at The Information, recently wrote about the working conditions for delivery and warehouse workers at the logistics company UniUni. He found that the company's way of saving money often meant poor working conditions. E-commerce sites like Temu and Shein might not be quite as cheap as they were a week ago now that tariffs are kicking in on even small-dollar imports.