Big Take

AI executives across the industry, led by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, called for a coordinated slow down in AI development over the weekend.
The move followed a viral post on X from a former Anthropic employee who resigned over safety concerns.
On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg tech editor Sarah Frier joins Sarah Holder to break down the motivations behind those responses — and how IPOs, inflation and the economy are all at play.
Listen more: So Could AI ‘Kill Us All’?

Read more: Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Is Still On. And So Is the AI Race
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Host: Sarah Holder; Guest: Sarah Frier
Produced by David Fox; Edited by Tracey Samuelson. Mixed and mastered by Sean Carter.
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In the midst of a trade war with the US, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is on a charm offensive.
On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Derek Decloet and host David Gura break down how Canada is reassessing its trade and security relationships and cozying up to Europe.
Read more: Canada’s Carney on Capital Investment, AI, US Trade
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Hosted by David Gura; Produced by David Fox; Reported by Derek Decloet; Edited by Paddy Hirsch.
Fact-checking by Brunella Tipismana Urbano; Engineering by Alex Sugiura.
Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.
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LIV Golf split the professional circuit early this decade with its flashy tournaments and payouts that outstripped what golfers were earning on PGA tours. Now, after five years — and more than $5 billion in investments from the Saudi Public Investment Fund — LIV filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
On today’s Big Take podcast, Golf.com’s Sean Zak joins host David Gura to explore why LIV wasn’t able to convert lavish spending and an attention-grabbing feud with the PGA into big audience numbers. Zak explores the prospect for a player-owned LIV 2.0 and looks at whether the upstart tour was ultimately good for professional golf.
Read more:
LIV’s Great Saudi-Backed Assault on Golf Ends With Whimper
LIV Golf Files Bankruptcy With Post-Saudi Future Uncertain
LIV Golf Shows Money Can Buy Stars — But Not Fans
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Hosted by David Gura; Produced by Julia Press; Guest: Sean Zak; Edited by Jeffrey Grocott.
Fact-checking by Brunella Tipismana Urbano; Engineering by Alex Sugiura.
Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.
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Tens of thousands of workers in India are wearing head-mounted cameras to record their every move, helping train humanoid robots to perform everyday human tasks.
On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, Bloomberg’s Saritha Rai joins host Rebecca Choong Wilkins for an inside look at how vast troves of data are gathered by the very people who may eventually be replaced and what it all means for the US-China race for AI dominance.
Read more: Workers Are Teaching AI-Powered Robots to Take Over Their Jobs

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Hosted by Rebecca Choong Wilkins; Produced by Yang Yang; Reported by Saritha Rai; Edited by Crispina Robert, Patrick Hirsch.
Fact-checking by Brunella Tipismana Urbano; Engineering by Alex Sugiura.
Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.
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"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." An X post by a former employee of both OpenAI and Anthropic went viral and is prompting big questions.
On today’s Big Take podcast, host Sarah Holder and Bloomberg’s Mike Shepard talk through what an AI safety reckoning could look like — and whether an industry in the midst of intense competition can slow down.
Read more:
Anthropic Worker Quits Over AI Firms ‘Gambling With Our Lives’
Moonshot Secretly Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says
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Hosted by Sarah Holder; Produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Guest: Mike Shepard; Edited by Naomi Shavin and Aaron Edwards. Fact-checking by Brunella Tipismana Urbano; Engineering by Sean Carter. Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.
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