Bytes: Week in Review — How tariffs impact consumer gadgets, e-commerce and the AI boom
Marketplace Tech
American Public Media
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The tariff rollercoaster has created a lot of uncertainty in the tech industry. We're digging into how its playing out for makers of consumer tech, e-commerce platforms and AI. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, about all these topics for this week’s Tech Bytes.
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| 1:01.0 | Can artificial intelligence outsmart tariffs? From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 1:07.9 | I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. |
| 1:25.0 | The tariff roller coaster has created a lot of uncertainty in the tech industry. We're digging into how it's playing out for makers of consumer tech, e-commerce |
| 1:29.0 | platforms, and AI in today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review. We're joined by Peresh DeVay, |
| 1:36.2 | senior writer at Wired, to help us dissect all this, starting with what it means for the |
| 1:41.1 | device economy. Some gadgets, 20, 40, 50 percent of the stuff inside is still |
| 1:48.0 | subject to these tariffs. I mean, that's significant. So you're seeing companies start to say |
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