Latest from Daniel Shin

• Jun 6, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review – Meta’s nuclear power deal, Florida’s social media law barred, and a bet to make AI less human

  

  Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, joins Marketplace’s Nova Safo for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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• Jun 4, 2025

  A test to weed out AI-generated deepfake images

  

  Matt Groh and his colleagues at Northwestern University came up with an online test to see how skilled consumers are at spotting deepfakes. The results suggest people are getting better at deciphering real versus fake.

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• Jun 3, 2025

  The startups bringing brain-computer interfaces to market

  

  Startups like Elon Musk’s Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience and Synchron are developing brain-computer interfaces to make them more accessible and less invasive. Christopher Mims, tech journalist at The Wall Street Journal, explains the ethical, technical and regulatory challenges these startups are facing.

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• Jun 2, 2025

  Police use new AI tool that can identify someone without facial features

  

  Unlike traditional facial recognition technology, which uses clear facial characteristics, this new tool tracks body features and accessories, says James O'Donnell, AI reporter at MIT Technology Review.

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• May 30, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review — Texas’ age verification law, a potential moratorium on local AI laws, and Meta splits its AI team

  

  Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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• May 29, 2025

  NYC's child welfare agency uses AI to scrutinize marginalized families, recent investigation finds

  

  Colin Lecher, reporter at The Markup, says the city's Administration for Children's Services uses a family's neighborhood, mental and physical health history, and whether a family has had previous reports to flag them and scrutinize them.

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• May 28, 2025

  Controversial Reddit AI study raises wider ethical concerns

  

  Researchers at the University of Zurich stirred up controversy when they revealed they conducted a study on whether AI-generated comments could influence people’s opinions on the Reddit forum r/changemyview — without gathering informed consent from users. Northwestern University School of Medicine Professor Mohammad Hosseini explains how this one case lays out several ethical issues with the use of AI in research.

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• May 27, 2025

  Silicon Valley work culture shifts from perks to pressure

  

  Business Insider’s Alistair Barr explains how Big Tech companies are turning away from the perks that defined Silicon Valley work culture a decade ago, to strict performance reviews.

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• May 23, 2025

  Bytes: Week in Review – “Take It Down” act becomes law, AI dominates Google I/O and Fortnite returns to Apple App Store

  

  Paresh Dave, senior writer at WIRED, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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• May 22, 2025

  Farm workers head back to school to upskill in agtech

  

  Nadia Olivos, who tends strawberry and raspberry plants at the farm she works at, is finishing up her AgTEC Workforce classes, which aim to give students a leg up in agriculture technology-focused careers.

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