Bytes: Week in Review — Dems’ tech platform, Google’s legal troubles and OpenAI’s newest partnership
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🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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On today’s show: Google deals with another legal headache. A federal appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit that had been dismissed concerning privacy violations by its Chrome browser. Plus, OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has partnered up with another media brand, Condé Nast. But first, we can’t ignore the biggest happening of the week — the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the party formally nominated Vice President Kamala Harris for president with the help of big names in entertainment. Rapper Lil Jon revving up the presentation of the Georgia delegation’s votes was just one viral moment that came out of the convention. What didn’t come out of the gathering, though, were clear indications of the Harris campaign’s tech policy platform. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, about what that platform might look like.
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| 0:00.0 | The Kamala Harris, Tim Wall's agenda on tech, is still loading. |
| 0:07.0 | From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Megan McCarty Karino. It's Friday, which means it's time for Marketplace TechBites week in review, where we look back at the big |
| 0:26.5 | goings on in the industry this week. There's another legal headache for Google. A federal |
| 0:31.8 | appeals court revived a class action lawsuit |
| 0:34.4 | that had been dismissed concerning privacy violations with its chrome browser. |
| 0:39.1 | Plus open AI, the maker of Chachi P.T. |
| 0:42.7 | has partnered up with another media brand, Kondenast. |
| 0:46.1 | But first, we can't ignore the biggest happening of the week. |
| 0:49.4 | The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, |
| 0:52.2 | where the party formally nominated |
| 0:53.6 | Kamala Harris for president with the help of some big names from |
| 0:57.2 | entertainment. |
| 0:58.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight to officially nominate Kamala Harris for President Five July |
| 1:07.0 | with nothing around a shot. |
| 1:08.0 | See they see turn out for what? |
| 1:12.0 | Yes, that was rapper Lil John, introducing Georgia's votes, just one of the viral moments |
| 1:18.1 | coming out of the convention. |
| 1:20.3 | What didn't really come out of the convention though were clear indications of the Harris campaign's tech policy platform. |
| 1:28.0 | We spoke with Axios tech policy reporter Maria Curie about what that platform might look like. |
| 1:34.2 | What about policies to promote innovation? |
| 1:37.3 | Of course the Biden administration did champion the Chips and Science Act to invest in semiconductor production. |
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