Bytes: Week in Review: A bet to make AI less human, and more

Marketplace Tech

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Technology, News

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, wants it to be less human. Plus, a federal judge temporarily blocked a law in Florida that would ban kids under 14 from getting social media accounts.

But first, Meta announced an energy deal with one of the country's biggest operators of nuclear reactors. Marketplace’s Nova Safo is joined by Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at the venture capital firm Collab Capital, to break down these tech stories from the week.

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1:17.9	One of the so-cote.org.org. One of the so-called godfathers of AI wants it to be less human.
1:21.2	From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.
1:35.1	I'm Novosafo. We'll get to that AI story in this week's TechBites Week in review.
1:45.5	Other developments this week that got our attention, one from Florida, where a federal judge temporarily blocked a law that would ban kids under 14 from getting social media accounts.
1:51.9	And another from META, which announced an energy deal with one of the country's biggest operators of nuclear reactors.
1:54.7	And that's where we begin with our guest this week.
1:59.2	Joel Burke-Solomon, managing partner at the venture capital firm Collab Capital.
2:05.2	I asked her why META would bother signing a deal to keep open a struggling nuclear power plant in Illinois.
2:12.7	Meta has been doing a lot in the AI space, and they need more energy to be able to continue in this AI race.
2:21.3	And so, like some of the other major tech companies, META has seen an opportunity with nuclear power and has signed this deal with Constellation Energy to be able to keep a nuclear power plant open
2:27.6	that was potentially going to close.
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