Segments From This Episode

• Rising unemployment claims signal a softening job market

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  That’s complicating the Fed’s upcoming decision on what to do with interest rates.

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• What's Jay gonna say?

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sofia Terenzio

  We hear from Bill English at Yale, Nellie Liang at the Brookings Institution, and Linda Hooks at Washington and Lee University about what they're expecting ahead of Fed Chair Jay Powell's Jackson Hole speech.

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• What vision AI could be used for in the future

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  Large language models, or LLMs, are the AI engines behind Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and the rest. But they have a sibling: VLMs, or vision language models.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• How spicy became the hottest flavor in town

  by Kai Ryssdal, Nicholas Guiang and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  “Food costs are really high, and spice is a great way of masking cheap flavors,” said Ellen Cushing at The Atlantic.

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• How tariffs are shaping the Indigenous art economy

  by Savannah Peters

  

  At the prestigious Santa Fe Indian Market, artists’ work is rooted in their Indigenous traditions and homelands. But many work with materials sourced from around the world.

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