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Meghan McCarty Carino

Senior Reporter

Meghan McCarty Carino is a senior reporter at Marketplace headquarters in Los Angeles. She’s also a fill-in host on “Marketplace Tech.”

Since 2019, Meghan has covered workplace culture, from #MeToo to pandemic remote work, the movement for racial justice and the artificial intelligence boom.

In her free time she can often be found obsessing over pizza dough, cocktail experiments or her latest food and drink fixation. She tracks her favorite international sunscreens in a Google doc – just ask.

Meghan previously reported, hosted and produced for Los Angeles station KPCC/LAist, and got her start as an intern at KQED in San Francisco. Her work has won a National Headliner Award, Online Journalism Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, LA Press Club Award and has been featured by Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab and the Center for Public Integrity.

Meghan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended UCLA and USC.

Latest from Meghan McCarty Carino

  • Why SpaceX stock soared, then stumbled
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    Plus, Meta is reportedly developing its own prediction markets app and Google makes an AI-related investment in independent film studio A24. Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino for this week's "Tech Bytes: Week in Review."

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  • Stanford launches AI economy indicator to match AI's pace
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    Data from Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s new AI Economic Indicator dashboard suggests AI-exposed jobs have been declining since ChatGPT was released in late 2022. Research manager and project lead Connacher Murphy says the database will help researchers and regular job seekers alike.

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  • Fisk University, a prominent HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, is betting on a $400 million data center to potentially revitalize its campus, but community members there are protesting the partnership.
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    Following federal funding cuts, some Black colleges and universities are agreeing to data center partnerships as an alternative income stream, says Ashley Northington, higher-ed strategy executive at DENOR Strategic Advisors.

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  • Why this Silicon Valley priest wants to teach AI right from wrong
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    Father Brendan McGuire of St. Simon’s Parish in Los Altos, California, discusses why he helped Anthropic draft its “Claude Constitution” and why the Vatican is engaging in the broader conversation around ethical AI.

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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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  • San Francisco has the highest and the fastest-rising home prices in the country, according to Redfin.
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    A new class of overnight millionaires and billionaires are bidding up San Francisco housing at the fastest rate in the country. And that’s before Anthropic and OpenAI have even gone public.

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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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  • Like coding, AI has been taking over some entry-level cybersecurity roles that would have gone to professionals just starting out in the field.
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    There’s been a decades-long push to grow the workforce, but many early career job seekers are hitting a firewall.

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