Technology

The coffee chain has a plan to get customers their caffeine, faster: simpler orders might go first.

Selena Deckelmann, chief product and technology officer at Wikimedia Foundation, says AI crawlers have been scraping their sites and collecting content and data, straining the organization's internet infrastructure.

Brands’ digital advertising budgets are often the first to get cut when the economic horizons look gloomy. That could spell trouble for tech companies.

According to GDP data out today, business investment in computers and related equipment grew nearly 113%.

Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams explains how the online news environment has changed in Canada since Meta banned news content from Facebook and Instagram there, and how this ban affected coverage of the country’s recent federal election.

And the battery farm is funded, in part, by public pensions.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University tested several AI models’ ability to interpret how humans were interacting with each other in short videos and found they were largely unable to consistently describe what was happening. Leyla Isik, professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University and senior scientist of the study, explains what their findings could mean for the future of AI development.

Almost two thirds of drivers say they’re afraid of AVs.

Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, joins Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

TikTok recently announced it will launch a user-led fact checking program called Footnotes, similar to the community-led notes on X and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms. Lisa Fazio, professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, explains how effective these crowd-sourced moderation efforts have been and whether this is the future for social media moderation.