Republicans assemble oddly insulting set of 2024 candidates with Senate control on the line
Plus, Trump fails to attract courthouse protest despite all-caps pleas for support
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The recession that’s always six months away
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell took a trip to Capitol Hill this week to testify about the health of the U.S. economy. We’ll get into the TL;DR of Powell’s testimony and why he doesn’t foresee a recession around the corner. And, we’ll talk about how political campaigns are spending on advertising these days. Plus, the latest regional banking woes and what rapidly advancing deepfakes could do to this year’s elections.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “Key takeaways from Fed Chair Powell’s testimony on Capitol Hill” from CNN Business
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- “Steven Mnuchin Backs New York Community Bank in $1 Billion Deal” from The New York Times
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- “Deepfakes and the 2024 election season” from Marketplace
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WeWork files for bankruptcy, Meta’s plan for election-related AI and ad blockers get blocked
It’s Friday! Which means it’s time for our week-in-review show: Marketplace Tech Bytes. Meta announced this week that starting in 2024, Facebook and Instagram will start labeling political ads that use images generated by AI. But no… it’s hardly an AI crackdown. Plus, YouTube goes to war with ad blockers. A spate of uninstalls ensues! But first, WeWork, the co-working space provider, files for bankruptcy. What happened? And what’s next for the one-time golden child of Silicon Valley? Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, for his take on these stories.
Morning briefing Monday 10th April
The Times Briefing for the Morning of Monday 10th April
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