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  • A 3D rendering of a woolly mammoth.
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    Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and bring back, for example, the woolly mammoth or the dodo.

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  • Chicago's quantum leap into the future
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    Jeanne Whalen, economics reporter at The Wall Street Journal, explains why Chicago is betting on quantum computing as the next world-changing tech innovation.

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  • How Anthropic is tracking AI's impact on the labor market
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    Anthropic’s head of economics Peter McCrory discusses what the company’s latest research can tell us about AI’s effects on the broader job market.

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  • Why Boston Dynamics is deploying robot dogs at the World Cup
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    Boston Dynamics senior director of product for software and quadrupeds, Merry Frayne, discusses how their dog-like Spot robots are being deployed at live stadiums for surveillance and security.

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  • Hospitals pull back on robotic nursing assistants
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    Varshal Bansal, reporter at Proof News, discusses the nursing robot “Moxi” and why hospital networks stopped using them after they were rolled out in 2019.

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  • 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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