Episodes

  • An Open AI (ChatGPT) "app-less" smartphone is in development

    An Open AI (ChatGPT) "app-less" smartphone is in development
    May 1 2026
    This is our daily Tech and Business report. KCBS Radio News Anchor Margie Shafer spoke with Bloomberg reporter Stacey Vanek Smith. An A-I company could be making its first foray into smartphone development.
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    4 mins
  • Cybersecurity concerns push NSA to begin testing AI products

    Cybersecurity concerns push NSA to begin testing AI products
    Apr 30 2026
    This is our daily Tech and Business report. KCBS' Holly Quan spoke with Bloomberg Reporter Jake Bleiberg. The National Security Agency is testing the capabilities of AI products from companies like Anthropic and Microsoft to find any cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
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    4 mins
  • We discuss aerospace and drone makers amid global conflicts

    We discuss aerospace and drone makers amid global conflicts
    Apr 29 2026
    This is our daily Tech and Business Report. KCBS Radio News Anchor Holly Quan spoke with Bloomberg Aerospace and Defense stock reporter Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos. As conflicts rage around the world members of the military industrial complex are reaping the benefit. But it isn't necessarily the established names who are getting the most of the war dividend. New methods of fighting have paved the way for new defense startups to have their moment in the sun.
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    5 mins
  • Amazon is bolstering its business model selling office software powered by AI

    Amazon is bolstering its business model selling office software powered by AI
    Apr 28 2026
    This is our daily Tech and Business Report. KCBS Radio News Anchor, Holly Quan spoke with Matt Day, Bloomberg News Reporter based in Seattle. Amazon is adding to its business model and is looking to sell office software powered by AI. They're calling the new set of tools Amazon Connect Decisions and Amazon Connect Talent.
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    4 mins
  • Artificial Intelligence researchers are against AI use in the military

    Artificial Intelligence researchers are against AI use in the military
    Apr 27 2026
    This is our daily Tech and Business report. KCBS Radio News Anchor Scott Cohn spoke with Katrina Manson. Hundreds of Google's AI researchers have signed a letter addressed to CEO Sundar Pichai asking that the company's AI not be used for classified military missions. After employees protested Google's work with the military in 2018 the company declined to renew its contract with the military and introduced a set of AI principles but it has since walked some of those back and strengthened ties with the military.
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    5 mins
  • AI driving more enrollment in trade schools? How people are beating the bots

    AI driving more enrollment in trade schools? How people are beating the bots
    Apr 24 2026
    This is our daily Tech and Business report. KCBS Radio News Anchor Alisa Clancy spoke with Bloomberg's Victor Swezey. AI in the workplace has investors placing their bets on trade school thanks to a perception that blue-collar work can weather an automated tech infiltration.
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    4 mins
  • Microsoft offers employees deal to voluntarily leave their jobs

    Microsoft offers employees deal to voluntarily leave their jobs
    Apr 23 2026
    This is our daily Tech and Business report. KCBS Radio News Anchor Alisa Clancy spoke with Bloomberg's Brody Ford. Microsoft is offering a first of its kind voluntary buyout deal for around 7% of its workforce. If fully implemented, it would see almost 9-thousand employees voluntarily depart from the company.
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    4 mins
  • Court documents claim Amazon involved in money scheme with other brands

    Court documents claim Amazon involved in money scheme with other brands
    Apr 20 2026
    This is our daily Tech and Business report. KCBS Radio News Anchor Margie Shafer spoke with Bloomberg's Spencer Soper. Newly unsealed court documents reveal the details of an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon by the state of California. The state alleges that Amazon engaged in a price fixing scheme, pressuring major brands to raise prices on competitors' websites, claims which Amazon denies.
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    4 mins