Bytes: Week in Review – Apple adds billions more to U.S. investments, OpenAI embraces openness, and Google restructures DEI funding
Marketplace Tech
American Public Media
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
OpenAI’s new open-weight models are designed to run on a local computer and can be fine tuned by users. A Tech Transparency Project report shows Google dropped more than 50 DEI-related groups from its funding list. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the company’s investment to build up its supply chain in the domestically. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, to discuss all of this and more.
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| 1:30.0 | Open AI got back into the OpenAI game this week. The Chad GPT maker dropped two new open-weight large language models that can be run on a local computer and fine-tuned by users. We're digging into it on today's Marketplace |
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