Is AI coming for your job?

Wake Up To Money

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington gets the latest on Hurricane Melissa and hears how AI is already coming for tech jobs at companies worth trillions of dollars - so how will that affect firms further down the chain? And we take a look at the latest from Chancellor Rachel Reeves who says she wants to the defy the gloom from economic forecasters ahead of the budget.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron.
0:10.5	Evil genius.
0:11.6	He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it.
0:15.5	That's like hiding at your own funeral.
0:17.1	Yeah, a bit great gig.
0:18.6	I'm Russell Kane.
0:19.6	Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius.
0:24.2	Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius.
0:26.4	It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
0:29.4	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.
0:34.9	Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.
0:38.3	Wake up to money from BBC 5 Live.
0:42.0	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money, the latest on Hurricane Melissa, as we hear of the impact in Jamaica,
0:48.0	and where the storm heads next, plus Microsoft, now worth more than $4 trillion.
0:54.6	Big companies cutting thousands of jobs as well.
0:56.8	How much of a role does AI have in both of those stories?
1:00.0	And the Chancellor says she wants to defy the gloom.
1:03.5	Wake Up to Money with Sean Farrington.
1:06.3	Good morning to you. Wake up to money on BBC 5 Live. It is just coming up to 5 past 5 on this Wednesday morning,
1:15.2	the 29th of October. Let's get the very latest on Hurricane Melissa. It's carved this path of
1:22.7	destruction through Jamaica, battering the island with brutal winds, torrential rain as well.
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