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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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  • 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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  • A climate change solution from science fiction
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    Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a California non-profit that wants to deploy umbrella-like shades into space to reflect sunlight to cool the earth.

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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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  • AI bots are collecting debts — or at least trying to
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    There's a cottage industry automating debt collections, but the technology still makes a lot of mistakes, says Kate Knibbs, senior writer at Wired.

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