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entity Updated 2026-07-10 Tags: Journalist, Podcast, Technology

Megan McCarty-Corino

Megan McCarty-Corino is the Marketplace Tech host named in 3D printing was supposed to disrupt prosthetic costs. It hasn’t.. In this episode, she frames the question of why 3D printing has not made prosthetic limbs much cheaper after roughly a decade of public expectation.

Her role in the wiki is mainly as interview context. The episode uses her questions to move from consumer 3D-printing hype toward 3D-Printed Prosthetics, Prosthetic Insurance Coverage, Assistive Device Classification, and global access logistics.

Dr. AI will see you now adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a patient-facing healthcare-AI episode with Hassan Benchikran. Her framing turns the “Dr. Google” to “Dr. AI” shift into a clinician-trust question, connecting Patient AI Use, Doctor-Guided AI Interpretation, AI Health Management, and Human Judgment Under AI.

Bytes: Week in Review - Apple’s leadership departures raises concerns over its AI future adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a Marketplace Tech Bytes discussion with Joanna Stern on Apple leadership, Streaming Consolidation, and AI-Generated Advertising. In that source, her questions keep the focus on consumer consequences: whether AI hardware can move beyond the phone, whether streaming deals reduce app confusion, and why audiences object to corporate AI ads.

A case for AI models that understand, not just predict, the way the world works adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a concise AI explainer with Gary Marcus. The episode uses her framing to make World Models, LLM World Model Gap, scene graphs, robotics, and the limits of pure statistical prediction legible for a broad technology audience.

How states are competing in the data center gold rush adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a data-center public-finance episode with Nicholas Miller. Her framing turns the AI data-center buildout into a question of Data Center Tax Incentives, jobs, property-tax benefits, electricity exemptions, and energy-policy reassessment.

Tech sector job postings on Indeed (mostly) stabilized this year adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a tech labor-market episode with Corey Staley of Indeed. Her framing separates AI stock-market enthusiasm from actual job-posting demand, connecting Tech Hiring Stabilization, AI Labor Market Concentration, Software Developer Hiring Pullback, and Data Engineering Demand.

The challenges of integrating ads in AI search engines adds McCarty-Corino as the host of an AI Search Advertising episode with Garrett Johnson. Her questions frame AI ads around user competition, advertiser scale, Perplexity’s reported pullback, OpenAI commerce partnerships, and the shift from SEO toward Generative Engine Optimization.

Bytes: Week in Review - Micron’’s big earnings, Oracle’’s data center woes and “slop” is Merriam-Webster’’s word of the year adds McCarty-Corino in the weekly Bytes format with Anita Ramaswamy. The episode frames AI’s business consequences across Micron Technology and High Bandwidth Memory, Oracle and Data Center Debt Risk, local data-center opposition, and AI Slop as Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word-of-the-year signal.

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