Private Equity’s New Pitch: Investing Your 401(k)
Private equity is looking for new ways to raise capital. The industry has its eye on a $12 trillion piece of America’s retirement market. On today’s Big Take podcast, private equity reporter Allison ...
25 Mar 202516min
Googling in the ChatGPT Era
Search is the most lucrative part of Google’s business. So when ChatGPT launched in 2022 and offered to answer users’ every question, it posed an existential threat to the company, forcing Google to r...
24 Mar 202515min
Levittown Episode 3: The Hunter
It’s not just Levittown. The website hosting the doctored photos is the nexus of campaigns to harass women across the world. A victim in New Zealand helps to spark a global battle against the site and...
23 Mar 202532min
Levittown Episode 2: ‘I’m Also on the Website’
Months after Kayla’s discovery, dozens of women in Levittown, a New York suburb on Long Island, learn they, too, are subjects of faked porn. Most are recent graduates of the local high school, and the...
22 Mar 202530min
Levittown Episode 1: Me... But Not Me
SHOW DESCRIPTION New Year’s Eve. Levittown, New York. Word travels swiftly as one young woman tells the next: “You’re on the website.” Dozens of recent high-school graduates are finding out that their...
21 Mar 202530min
Another Space-Obsessed Billionaire Has Entered the Chat
The International Space Station’s time in the stars will soon come to an end. NASA has said that the ISS is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2030 and replaced with a new station made by a private com...
20 Mar 202516min
The World Is Paying for Trump’s China Tariffs
Trump's tariffs on China are causing a lot of pain around the world. Products that would've gone to the US are now pouring into other countries, leading to factory closures and layoffs. And this is li...
19 Mar 202516min
How Wall Street Thinks About Crypto’s Future
Crypto optimism soared after President Trump’s re-election and Bitcoin hit an all-time high the day of his inauguration. But it's been on something of a roller coaster since then. And the broader fina...
17 Mar 202515min
