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

The 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 yet on what the second Donald Trump administration's Justice Department will do with this case.

2 days ago | marketplace.org | Amy Scott |Caitlin Esch |Hayley Hershman |Sophia Paliza-Carre

Can we invest our way out of the climate crisis? That’s the question we started this series with, and in this episode, we try to answer that question. So far, we’ve been talking about the trillions of dollars of investor capital that could fund climate solutions or keep fueling the crisis. But what about our own money? What can we as individuals do to protect our savings from climate risk and not contribute to the problem?

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

We'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.

4 days ago | marketplace.org | Samantha Fields

As of April 22, many compounding pharmacies will have to stop selling their own versions of the popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. That’s because the FDA . Federal law allows compounding pharmacies to make copies of name brand drugs if and only if there’s a supply shortage. It can be hard to get these drugs covered by insurance — at least, if they’re justfor weight loss rather than for diabetes.

4 days ago | marketplace.org | Daisy Palacios |Daniel Shin |Jesus Alvarado |Jesús Alvarado |Rosie Hughes

We are in the midst of the first major U.S. election of the generative AI era. The people who want to win your vote have easy access to tools that can create images, video or audio of real people doing or saying things they never did — and slap on weird appendages or other make-believe effects along with targeted slogans. But the potential for deception has led about two dozen states to enact some form of regulation requiring political ads that use artificial intelligence to include a label.