Bytes: Week in Review — Trump officials’ Signal leak, 23andMe goes bankrupt and chatbots take on search engines
Marketplace Tech
American Public Media
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🗓️ 28 March 2025
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AI company Anthropic recently added web search to its chatbot Claude. It joins other artificial intelligence tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT in delivering one clear answer to a web search query instead of pages and pages of links. Plus, 23andMe declared bankruptcy. So what’s gonna happen to all that genetic data? But first — the Signal group chat heard round the world. A Trump administration official appears to have inadvertently invited a journalist into a conversation about sensitive national security issues on the secure messaging app Signal. The app does offer end-to-end encryption, the gold standard for security in consumer-level messaging apps, but that doesn’t make it foolproof for the most sensitive of data. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to break down all these topics for this week’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
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| 0:00.0 | What do you call it when you search the web with a chatbot that's not Google? |
| 0:06.8 | From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. |
| 0:26.2 | AI company Anthropic recently added web search to its chatbot Claude. It joins other AI tools like perplexity and chat GPT in delivering one clear answer to a web search query instead of pages and pages of links. |
| 0:39.6 | We'll dig into what that means for consumers and content publishers on today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review. Plus, 23 and Me declares |
| 0:47.1 | bankruptcy. So what's going to happen to all of that genetic data? But first, the signal group chat heard around the world. A Trump administration |
| 0:57.3 | official appears to have inadvertently invited a journalist to a conversation about sensitive national |
| 1:03.2 | security issues on the secure messaging app signal. It does offer end-to-end encryption, the gold standard for security in consumer-level messaging |
| 1:14.1 | apps, but that doesn't make it foolproof for the most sensitive of data, according to Joanna Stern, |
| 1:21.1 | senior personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal. I think the biggest lesson for |
| 1:26.9 | everyone out there with this story, I mean, |
| 1:28.8 | there are many, many lessons and many scary and, you know, yes, humorous things to come out of |
| 1:34.1 | this. But it's that no matter how secure the platform or app is that you are using, as security |
| 1:42.0 | professionals usually say, the weakest link in anything is you, is the human. |
| 1:47.3 | And so that is obviously what happened here. Somebody made a mistake. They added somebody to this |
| 1:52.6 | chat. And I guess I've also been thinking about the ways that, and Signal is one of the most |
| 1:58.0 | safe and encrypted apps out there. But of course, even Meredith Whitaker, |
| 2:03.0 | who's in charge of that and runs it, will tell everyone that, of course, there are ways that this |
| 2:07.1 | data could still get out. You still have to be careful, right? Screenshots are a big way, right? |
| 2:11.8 | That message may disappear from servers that might be fully encrypted, but someone takes a screenshot, |
| 2:17.2 | and yeah, that message happened. So I but someone takes a screenshot and, yeah, that message |
| 2:18.5 | happened. So I've been thinking a lot about those places where humans are the weakest link. |
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