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Rick Claypool, research director at the nonprofit Public Citizen, says AI chatbots are being sold to consumers to be more like humans, creating a dangerous attachment for some vulnerable users.

We're still two weeks out from Thanksgiving, but online shops are already a winter wonderland of deals and holiday advertising.

Plus, the great Bluesky migration and friend hoarding.

We call ourselves “Marketplace,” so part of our job is exploring how marketplaces work, in all their forms. Let's visit five markets, all in the near-orbit of this program’s world headquarters in Los Angeles.

Stock, dollar and cryptocurrency buyers may have cooled on Trump's re-election, but bankers are still in a party mood. Plus: jobless claims hit a six-month low.

For the final installment of our "Tricks of the Trade" series, we hunt for fruit and vegetables at the Santa Monica farmers market.

From the BBC World Service: The European Parliament has voted to delay and water down a proposed ban on importing commodities like cocoa and soy linked to deforestation. But chocolate companies aren't happy.

Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino for "Tech Bytes: Week in Review."

We answer your questions about Trump's potential impacts on the economy.

Next year, there might be an international oil surplus. What will U.S. drillers do? Plus, regulatory targets hope Trump will appoint friendlier heads of the SEC and FTC.