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Jun 5, 2026 Plus, the White House's new executive order on AI and Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI. Liz Lopatto, senior reporter at The Verge, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” SpaceX is targeting a $1.77 trillion valuation, but some analysts think it's worth half that. Plus, Florida sues OpenAI — the first state to take legal action against an AI company.

Historically low U.S. oil inventories could mean more pain at the pump The good news is the U.S. is exporting more oil because of the war. The bad news is the U.S. is exporting more oil because of the war. • More investors want to pull money from private credit firms Investors having been putting money into private credit since the 2008 financial crisis. With time, the problems with those investments are starting to show.

Jun 4, 2026 Maryland Governor Wes Moore explains his administration’s decisions to ban certain kinds of dynamic pricing, integrating AI into government systems, balanced data center policy and more. When a store offers different shoppers different prices depending on factors like the weather, the time of day, and what the store knows about each buyer, it’s called dynamic pricing. This spring, Maryland, became the first state to ban this practice in grocery stores.