AI vs The Knowledge
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Sean Farrington speaks to an investor and a cab driver about a major funding round for a British autonomous vehicles company, which could be carrying passengers on London's streets this year. And he discusses the significance of Trump's State of the Union address with finance and trade experts.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm no longer ravenous. I'll no longer eat until I fall asleep. |
| 0:11.0 | The Hunger Game, a new five-part series exploring the meteoric rise of weight loss drugs. |
| 0:16.0 | It's been an incredible story with these drugs. |
| 0:18.1 | The uptake, the amount of product that's been sold, the amount of money |
| 0:21.2 | is cost. What the drugs do, how they work, and the knock-on effects of their widespread use. |
| 0:26.5 | We'll be sitting here in three years' time going, oh, it caused problems that we're now going to have to fix. |
| 0:32.3 | The Hunger Game with me, Professor Gilesio. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.8 | Wake up to money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello, welcome. It is Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:46.0 | Members of Congress, the state of our union is strong. |
| 0:54.3 | Did you expect him to say anything else? |
| 0:56.2 | That was Donald Trump giving his state of the nation address in the early hours of this morning. |
| 1:01.1 | It was the longest ever at one hour, 48 minutes. |
| 1:05.7 | Just days of course after the US Supreme Court ruled that large amounts of his sweeping tariffs were illegal. |
| 1:12.3 | We'll have a look at some of the things Trump was talking about, see what makes sense, see what |
| 1:16.8 | doesn't. We'll have the latest on tariffs as well as we've had 24 hours to digest those |
| 1:22.7 | tariffs coming in globally, those new levels from the United States. We're going to have a big look |
| 1:28.7 | at self-driving cars, self-driving cabs here in the UK. Set to hit streets later this year, |
| 1:35.8 | Autonomous Vehicles Company Wave has completed one of the biggest funding rounds ever for a |
| 1:42.3 | British tech startup. They want to be at the forefront of the software |
| 1:46.1 | behind it. We're going to find out what investors make of it all, what London cabbies think of |
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