AI's growing influence in healthcare
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🗓️ 24 June 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
AI’s burgeoning influence on the field of healthcare is raising concern among nurses about the future of their profession. New AI tools are being developed to perform tasks ranging from notetaking to proposing diagnoses, but recent research found that those tools can make severely harmful errors. Now, unions representing nurses are fighting to keep their professional judgment front and center. But first, we spoke with Susan Schmidt at Exchange Capital Resources about how Micron Technology’s focus on memory has made it a central player in the tech stock scene.
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| 0:00.0 | The multiple ways AI and its inputs are changing the economy. |
| 0:06.1 | From Marketplace in Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:09.4 | Memory chipmaker Micron Technologies will be releasing its latest earnings report later today after U.S. markets close. |
| 0:16.4 | Micron was leading Atec sell-off along with fellow chipmakers Nvidia and AMD in the first half of the week. |
| 0:22.9 | Here to break it down for us is Susan Schmidt, portfolio manager at Exchange Capital Resources. |
| 0:27.9 | Good morning, Susan. |
| 0:29.1 | Good morning. |
| 0:30.0 | So there was a big tech sell-off yesterday all over the world. |
| 0:33.8 | What are people looking at today? |
| 0:35.5 | There has been a big tech saw, not just yesterday, but since |
| 0:39.0 | the start of the week. And people are really focused today on micron. Micron has become the |
| 0:45.6 | stock to watch right now. It's taken NVIDIA's place almost. It's a memory producer. Memory is |
| 0:51.5 | critical for these AI models. They need to store all their information |
| 0:55.7 | somewhere. And people are focused on Micron's announcement after the market closed today, |
| 1:00.9 | and particularly their 2027 guidance, looking forward how they think the business is going to be. |
| 1:06.9 | The other big story folks are watching this morning is the price of oil with these tensions seemingly easing in the Middle East war. |
| 1:13.8 | Oil prices are down to back around where they were before the war started. |
| 1:18.0 | How long before consumers might feel the effect of these falling prices? |
| 1:22.2 | Falling prices in oil do indicate an increasing comfort level. |
| 1:26.0 | But unfortunately, there is a supply chain issue. It is still |
| 1:29.7 | going to take quite some time for that price to move through the supply chain so that consumers can |
| 1:35.3 | see a lower price at the gas pump. This is going to take a little while. We're still not sure |
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