Google raises the stakes of the AI race
Marketplace
American Public Media
4.6 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Google announced it will integrate Gemini, its AI assistant, into the Chrome web browser. That will transform Chrome — the most used search engine — into an “agentic” browser. More on what that means for your data privacy and the race to advance AI tech, in this episode. Plus: Independent craft stores aim to fill the void left by Jo-Ann Fabrics, and how feeding the 82% of Alaskan communities that don’t have road access is a feat of public infrastructure.
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| 1:15.7 | Thank you. is Marketplace. In Denver, I'm Amy Scott in for Kai Rizdahl. |
| 1:19.2 | It's Friday, September 19th. |
| 1:21.3 | Good to have you with us. |
| 1:23.1 | This week in the economy, retail sales came in surprisingly strong. |
| 1:27.6 | The Fed, unsurprisingly, cut interest rates. |
| 1:31.0 | And President Trump announced progress on a TikTok deal with China, |
| 1:35.1 | with us to make sense of it all and what it means for you. |
| 1:38.4 | Our Courtney Brown at Axios and Catherine Rampel at MSNBC. |
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