AI chips away at cybersecurity job opportunities
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Cybersecurity was once the focus of a huge workforce development push. Job opportunities and training programs were abundant. But as artificial intelligence makes it easier for hackers to pull off sophisticated cyber crimes, it’s also replaced entry-level cybersecurity roles. In this episode, one corner of the AI-affected job market. Plus: What retail earnings could reveal about consumer spending, how homebuilders are feeling, and how the U.S. dollar became dominant.
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| 0:31.6 | Okay, serious question. |
| 0:34.7 | What is a dollar? |
| 0:36.9 | Anyway, from American public media, this is Marketplace. |
| 0:47.5 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizzdahl. It is Monday. Today, this one is the 18th day of May. |
| 0:58.1 | Good as it always is to have you along, everybody. Our dollar discussion in just a minute, but retail |
| 1:03.4 | earnings are the macroeconomic metric owe the week. We are going to get in no particular order, |
| 1:09.7 | Walmart Target, T.J. Max, Home Depot, Lowe's, and a bunch of others telling us how their first quarters went. |
| 1:16.5 | As you know, the markets have been on a tear, and investors are pretty pleased, but consumers, in addition to their usual crankiness, are actually showing some signs of economic strain. |
| 1:27.5 | So Marketplaces, Kristen Schwab gets us going today with what those earnings calls might be able to tell us. |
| 1:33.2 | There's been a phrase economists, analysts, and companies have used to describe consumers month after month and at this point, year after year. |
| 1:42.1 | Resilient, but still choiceful. |
| 1:45.0 | Mari Shore is a retail analyst at Columbia Threadneedle investments. |
| 1:49.0 | And I think that those words are still going to be used to describe the consumer. |
| 1:56.8 | She says big picture, consumers are still spending, but look closer and it's mostly just the more moneyed Americans keeping retail sales strong. |
| 2:06.1 | So when we look at the high-level economic data, a lot of that is reflecting strength at the high end and not necessarily across the income spectrum. |
| 2:17.0 | It's why even a stellar earnings season doesn't necessarily equal a strong consumer economy. |
| 2:23.5 | Sonia Lipinski is a managing director of the retail practice at Alex Partners. |
| 2:28.5 | When we say they're still spending, it's a pretty macro view that I think gets blended across |
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