{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Tech","slug":"marketplace-tech-318132","podcast_index_feed_id":318132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-tech","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/af5db80cfdc39c7440ad974f15e6e23fe14d9f5c/square/834af0-20250303-marketplace-tech-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":150,"summary":"Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T22:18:47.058590+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132"},"episode":{"title":"Wall Street sets its sights on an AI futures market","slug":"wall-street-sets-its-sights-on-an-ai-futures-market","published_at":"2026-06-02T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/wall-street-sets-its-sights-on-an-ai-futures-market","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/06/02/wall-street-sets-its-sights-on-an-ai-futures-market","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/06/02/tech_20260602_0602_MP_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MKPtech&awEpisodeId=01KSN9Z94MCCNS55ZAT5566ZN3","summary":"There is growing demand for time with GPUs, the chips that power artificial intelligence. AI companies need those chips in order to keep their models up and running. And to do that, they can reserve time with a GPU. Now, there’s interest from Wall Street in creating a futures market for this AI compute time, essentially treating it like a commodity. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Liz Hoffman, business and finance editor at Semafor and host of the “Compound Interest” podcast, who recently wrote about this.","meta_description":"There is growing demand for time with GPUs, the chips that power artificial intelligence. AI companies need those chips in order to keep their models up a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":532,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-tech-318132/episodes/wall-street-sets-its-sights-on-an-ai-futures-market/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/wall-street-sets-its-sights-on-an-ai-futures-market.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}