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Gig workers train humanoids on household chores

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By Stephanie Hughes Verified, Nancy Farghalli, Daisy Palacios
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Is your shirt-folding technique good enough to train a robot how to do it? Could MySpace be creeping back into our browsers? We get into all this on today’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” But first, the rocket ship/satellite internet/AI company SpaceX reported this week that it spent over $18 billion in capital expenditures in the second quarter. That’s six times what it spent the same time last year. Most of that was on AI infrastructure.
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Credit cards are becoming easier to access for subprime borrowers

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By Stephanie Hughes Verified
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Credit cards are becoming more accessible. The number of credit cards issued went up nearly 12% in the first quarter from the same time a year ago, according to new research out Thursday from the credit bureau TransUnion. One area of growth has been subprime borrowers, or people with less than stellar credit. In years past, lenders were not so keen to give credit cards to people with poor credit histories, according to Michele Raneri, vice president of research and consulting at TransUnion.
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World Cup fans drove up U.S. service exports in June

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By Stephanie Hughes Verified
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Aug 5, 2026 When fans from other countries came for the World Cup, the money they spent was considered an "export" and helped lower the U.S. trade deficit. Scottish soccer fans wait in line at a Boston pub. The growth in international tourism bucks an overall downward trend in foreign visitors last year. Remember all those Scots who visited Boston for the World Cup? They wore kilts, drank a bunch of beer, and helped drive up U.S. service exports.
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