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Wake Up To Money

If the bubble bursts?

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The boss of Alphabet tells the BBC no company will be immune if the AI bubble bursts. Plus, reselling tickets to live events for a profit is to be banned by the government.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:07.0

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it.

0:13.3

But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go?

0:19.2

I remember having this very sharp thought

0:21.7

that what you do right now,

0:23.6

this is it, this defines your life.

0:26.0

I'm ready to talk and ready to listen.

0:28.3

I'm insulted by how little the medical community

0:32.1

is ever bothered with this.

0:33.9

Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard,

0:35.6

is my new podcast.

0:37.0

Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio,

0:42.6

podcasts. Wake Up to Money with Sean Farrington. Wake Up to Money from BBC Five Live.

0:50.9

Hello, welcome. It is Wake Up to Money. We're going to be talking about reselling tickets to live events for a profit set to be banned

0:59.1

by the government in a move to clamp down on ticket touts.

1:03.1

We'll hear where that has come from.

1:05.4

What the consequences of it might be as well for ticket prices for ticket touts.

1:09.9

What might happen next? We're going to hear at length from S for ticket touts, what might happen next.

1:11.2

We're going to hear at length from Sunder Pitchai, the boss of Google's parent company, Alphabet,

1:16.8

who says no company will be immune if the AI bubble bursts.

1:21.5

People shouldn't blindly trust AI.

1:23.7

We've got plenty more from Faisal Islam's exclusive interview with him.

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