Tariffed: The Toymaker That Took on Trump Part One
President Trump’s trade threw American businesses, which source everything from aircraft parts to baby strollers from China, into chaos. Over this year, some companies challenged the president’s tarif...
24 Dec 202528min
Why Instacart Backtracked on an AI-Pricing Experiment
This month, the think-tank the Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports and the news nonprofit More Perfect Union released a report finding that Instacart had been using an AI tool to run algorithmi...
23 Dec 202519min
Weekend Listen: Lynsey Addario Keeps Going Back to Photograph War
Lynsey Addario’s life work means taking great risks to tell other people’s stories. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer who has been abducted twice while documenting conflicts from Afgha...
21 Dec 202544min
Inside Disney and OpenAI’s Billion Dollar Deal
As AI-generated images ping pong around the internet, the Walt Disney Company has been mostly playing defense, using litigation to protect its intellectual property. But last week, Disney announced a ...
19 Dec 202519min
Truckers Are Aging Out. Who Will Replace Them?
The trucking industry has long been dominated by older white men. But as those truckers steer toward retirement, who will replace them? On today’s Big Take podcast, host Sarah Holder hits the road wi...
18 Dec 202515min
Many Cancer Drugs Don’t Extend Life
Treating cancer is a massive business. In 2024 alone, cancer treatments generated at least $200 billion in worldwide sales for the pharmaceutical industry, more than the obesity drug rush. But a Bloom...
17 Dec 202519min
The $2 Billion Flood Control Scandal Rocking the Philippines
The Philippines is no stranger to typhoons, but this year’s storms exposed something far uglier: a vast corruption scandal. On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha speaks to Bloomberg’s Andr...
16 Dec 202519min
