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The New York City Administration for Children's Services, or ACS, has been using predictive artificial intelligence to flag some families for greater scrutiny, according to a recent investigation by The Markup. Colin Lecher reported the story and tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino, like all AI systems, it can encode historical biases.

Nvidia, as you probably know, makes chips — more specifically, GPUs, which are needed to power artificial intelligence systems. But as AI adoption ramps up, why does it feel like Nvidia’s still the only chipmaker in the game? In this episode, why the California-based firm is, for now, peerless, and which companies may be angling to compete. Plus: Dwindling tourists worry American retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods sticks to its partly-sunny forecast and the share of single women as first-time homebuyers grows.

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Illinois is the only state where homeowners face foreclosure because they can’t pay their property taxes. On top of foreclosure, those homeowners are not entitled to any proceeds from the sale of their home. Reset learns more from a new investigation from Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity that explains why. Injustice Watch reporter Carlos Ballesteros and Investigative Project on Race and Equity reporter Emeline Posner break it down for us. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.

After more than a year of negotiations, the sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese firm Nippon Steel appears close. And it's expected to give an unusual role to the U.S. government. But first: how offshore wind developers are feeling, and why investors shouldn't tune out the markets this summer.

Bitcoin 2025 — billed as the world's largest event dedicated to the digital currency — kicked off this week in Las Vegas. Among the speakers: Vice President JD Vance and the White House's AI and Crypto Czar, David Sacks. their attendance marks another clear signal of the administration's growing embrace of cryptocurrency. Plus: What happened to corporate pledges made five years ago to help historically Black colleges and universities? We look into how some of those commitments have held up.

Medicaid accounts for about 56% of the funds Cook County Health uses to treat patients. Experts warn the cuts that House Republicans are advancing could have a serious impact on people’s health, on emergency rooms and that they could force Cook County to cut staff or reduce staff hours. For more about these potential impacts and how providers are bracing, Reset talks with Kristen Schorsch, WBEZ Cook County and public health reporter, and Dr. Mark Loafman, chair of family and community medicine at Cook County Health.

From the BBC World Service: The Panamanian government has declared a state of emergency in one province. It comes after U.S. banana giant Chiquita Brands laid off about 5,000 workers following a strike that had stopped production. Prosecutors in Brazil are suing the Chinese EV giant BYD, accusing it and two contractors of human trafficking and slave-like conditions at a factory site. And we take a look at Europe's biggest plant for processing the rare earth minerals a lot of modern technology relies on.

In late April, details came to light about a covert experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Zurich on unsuspecting Reddit users on the debate forum known as r/changemyview. They used AI chatbots posing as real humans on the forum to test their powers of persuasion and invented backstories like a rape survivor or a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter. What they didn't have was consent. The experiment violated Reddit Terms of Service, forum rules and, critics say, academic research standards. The researchers who notified Reddit of the experiment after the fact have since apologized and said they won't publish the results. Reddit says it's increasing efforts to verify users are human. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Mohammad Hosseini, a professor at Northwestern University's medical school, about the potential harms that could come from a study like this one.

The Conference Board’s latest consumer confidence index notched its highest monthly increase in four years. To be clear, it was coming off a five-year low in April, but the jump still represents cooling trade war anxieties among American consumers. Also in this episode: The U.S. isn’t the only country experiencing rising bond yields, durable goods orders fell in April and first-time home owners in Houston are saddled with climate-related cost burdens.

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The understanding that our lives are shaped by our parents is extremely ubiquitous. However, the influence of siblings is much less known. In her book, “The Family Dynamic: A Journey Into The Mystery of Sibling Success,” Susan Dominus shares her findings after spending time with multiple sets of high-achieving siblings to understand how sibling relationships affect each other. Reset sat down with the author to talk about family, define success and understand the ways siblings shape one another. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.