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Daisy Palacios

Senior Producer

Daisy is the supervising senior producer for “Marketplace Tech” and “Make Me Smart,” where she leads a team of collaborative producers and hosts in covering the economy, culture, and latest tech trends and how it all impacts our daily lives.

Before that, she was a producer and editor working mostly on stories that appeared on Marketplace’s flagship afternoon program. Over the years, Daisy has field produced stories across the country on a wide array of topics — small business, immigration, manufacturing, trade, elections and natural disaster recovery. She also spent time on Marketplace’s “This Is Uncomfortable” podcast producing stories about how money shapes identities and affects relationships.

Daisy was born and raised in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach, where she was a reporter for the campus radio news show.


Latest from Daisy Palacios

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    Plus, SpaceX acquires AI coding platform Cursor, and Meta tries to boost employee morale. Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino for this week's "Tech Bytes: Week in Review."

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  • Online casting scams hit Hollywood
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    Scammers are impersonating casting directors with convincing emails and sometimes AI voice clones to steal money from aspiring actors, according Katie Kilkenny, labor and media journalist at the Hollywood Reporter.

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  • Who should get an AI kill switch?
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    Anthropic has withdrawn access to its powerful cybersecurity AI models Mythos 5 and Fable 5, citing national security concerns. Raffi Krikorian, chief technology officer at Mozilla, questions who gets to flip that AI “kill switch” in the first place.

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  • Are our electric grids too big to function?
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    On July 23rd, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will hold a meeting to discuss possible reforms to PJM Interconnection LLC, the nation's largest electric grid operator. Utility Dive’s Ethan Howland breaks down what led to this moment.

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  • Why Siri AI isn't coming to the EU
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    Plus, the Trump administration’s latest attempts to pass federal AI regulation and guidelines for prediction markets. Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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  • Can humans and AI complement each other?
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    In her new book "Robot-Proof: When Machines Have All the Answers, Build Better People," neuroscientist Vivienne Ming explores how neither AI nor humans are at their best alone and how they should focus on their own strengths to form a powerful partnership.

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  • When AI fabricates your quotes
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    Journalist and NYU professor Meredith Broussard shares how she was incorrectly quoted in a recent book on AI’s distorting effects on reality.

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  • The Take It Down Act is in full effect. Now what?
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    The federal law ensures that social media companies are taking down non-consensual intimate imagery, AI-generated or not, within a timely manner. However, it also has the potential to be misused politically, says Lauren Feiner, senior policy reporter at The Verge.

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  • SpaceX is reportedly overvalued ahead of its IPO
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    Plus, the White House's new executive order on AI and Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI. Liz Lopatto, senior reporter at The Verge, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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  • Maryland's plan for the AI future
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    Maryland Governor Wes Moore explains his administration’s decisions to ban certain kinds of dynamic pricing, integrating AI into government systems, balanced data center policy and more.

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