Episodios

  • DNA and Bankruptcy Collide With 23andMe
    Apr 4 2025

    The genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March, after years of slowing sales, legal trouble, and a declining stock price. And now, the valuable trove of genetic data the company owns is for sale, sparking privacy concerns.

    On today’s Big Take, Bloomberg biotech reporter Gerry Smith traces the rise and fall of 23andMe, and bankruptcy reporter Jonathan Randles outlines what a possible sale could mean for millions of users’ genetic data.

    Read more: Bankrupt 23andMe’s DNA Data Gets Sale Nod as Concerns Linger

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    17 m
  • Trump Announces Sweeping New Tariffs. What’s Next
    Apr 3 2025

    Trump announced the steepest American tariffs in more than a century, with a 10% tariff on all exporters to the US and even higher duties on some 60 nations. China now faces a tariff well above 50% on many goods.

    On today’s Big Take, Bloomberg reporter Josh Wingrove joins host David Gura to discuss Trump’s “huge” announcement, and how it will reshape global trade.

    Read more: Trump Tariffs Everyone, With Rate on China Set to Soar Above 50%
    Further listening: The World Is Paying for Trump’s China Tariffs

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    21 m
  • As India’s Stock Market Surged, So Did Investment Scams
    Apr 2 2025

    India’s historic stock market surge sparked a retail-investing frenzy that minted millionaires. But the boom also became a breeding ground for financial scams.

    On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg’s Alex Gabriel Simon about the retail investors that have been cheated out of their life savings, and how this influx of scams could undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to promote his nation’s stock market to global money managers.

    Read more: Scamsters Trick India's Retail Investors Out of Millions in Life Savings

    Further listening: Inside Southeast Asia’s Most Notorious Crime Hub

    Watch, from Originals: Is India's Stock Market a Bubble About to Burst?

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    15 m
  • Princeton’s President Responds to Attacks on Higher Education
    Apr 1 2025

    The Trump administration is targeting higher education. Colleges and universities across the United States are faced with the threat of funding freezes over their handling of free speech, anti-semitism and transgender issues, among other topics, on campus.

    Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber joins host David Gura to discuss the newly announced freeze on some federal grants, the role of academic research, Princeton’s commitment to free speech and more.

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    33 m
  • What We Know About Trump’s Planned Tariffs
    Mar 31 2025

    President Donald Trump is calling April 2nd “Liberation Day” — that’s when the president says the world can expect the biggest salvo in his widening trade war. While the specifics are not yet clear, the symbolism is: Trump wants to usher in an era of American protectionist policy that could re-order global trade.

    Today on the show, Bloomberg’s Shawn Donnan joins host David Gura to discuss what we know about these new tariffs and the lessons from similarly broad tariffs in 1930. Plus, a new Bloomberg analysis of the economic impact the tariffs could have on the US economy.

    Read more: Trump's Tariffs Set to Make History and Break a System MAGA Loathes

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    18 m
  • Levittown Episode 6: Warp Speed
    Mar 30 2025

    In the series finale, our reporters try to crack the secretive companies behind nudify apps that let users create deepfakes in minutes. And a new case rocks another small town high school.

    Levittown is a real-life horror story for the AI generation. In this six-part series from Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeart Podcasts, reporters Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy take listeners from quiet suburbs of New York to as far as New Zealand and into the darkest corners of the Internet. Where tech moves faster than the law, and it’s up to everyday people to hold back a rising tide of explicit deepfakes.

    For official transcripts and additional information on this series, go to bloomberg.com/levittown

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    39 m
  • Levittown Episode 5: The Vigilantes
    Mar 29 2025

    Kayla faces down her harasser in court. In New Zealand, an investigator summons a global army of hackers.

    Levittown is a real-life horror story for the AI generation. In this six-part series from Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeart Podcasts, reporters Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy take listeners from quiet suburbs of New York to as far as New Zealand and into the darkest corners of the Internet. Where tech moves faster than the law, and it’s up to everyday people to hold back a rising tide of explicit deepfakes.

    For official transcripts and additional information on this series, go to bloomberg.com/levittown

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    41 m
  • Levittown Episode 4: 'How Is That Not Illegal'
    Mar 28 2025

    An arrest in Levittown kicks off the next phase of an investigation. The central question for the prosecutors is: Is any of this a crime? And they’re on the clock.

    Levittown is a real-life horror story for the AI generation. In this six-part series from Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeart Podcasts, reporters Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy take listeners from quiet suburbs of New York to as far as New Zealand and into the darkest corners of the Internet. Where tech moves faster than the law, and it’s up to everyday people to hold back a rising tide of explicit deepfakes.

    For official transcripts and additional information on this series, go to bloomberg.com/levittown

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    26 m