Stephanie Hughes

I'm Stephanie Hughes.

It's Friday, time for Marketplace Tech Bytes, where we look at a few big stories happening in tech.

This week, the prediction markets platform, Kalshi, announces new rules.

Plus, the Department of Labor introduces an AI literacy course.

But first, a jury in Los Angeles found this week that Meta and YouTube were negligent in what's being called a landmark case.

The social media companies were accused of designing their platforms to be addictive, which caused harm to a young user's mental health.

The companies will reportedly pay $6 million in damages.

Both companies have told media outlets they are disagreeing with the verdict and are exploring their legal options.

I talked about this with Maria Curie at Axios.

Yeah.

And I understand this is one of thousands of lawsuits filed by teenagers, school districts, state attorneys against social media companies.

How likely do you think we are to see actual changes to the products these companies make?

This has been called social media's big tobacco moment.

What are you going to be watching for moving forward?

Yeah, we'll watch it.

Okay, so let's move to our next story.

The U.S.

Department of Labor announces an AI literacy course.

So this week, the Trump administration introduced a free course that it says is meant to make American workers, quote, AI ready.

The course is designed to be completed entirely over text message and is meant to be the starting point for people to learn about AI.