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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week: Disney has agreed to make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI along with a licensing deal setting limitations on the use of it’s IP on Sora. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss this is a precedent-setting deal and how well OpenAI will actually be able to enforce the terms of the licensing agreement. Then, the hosts examine the likelihood of rumored tech IPOs that could be more than $1 trillion each, including Elon Musk' s SpaceX. And finally, Instacart’s variable prices signal a growing trend toward dynamic pricing for everything from eggs to soccer tickets. The hosts dive into the threat of companies using our personal data to set individual prices and what’s being done to prevent it. In the Slate Plus episode: Musk and Bezos’s data centers head to space? Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth. Get 50% Off Monarch Money, the all-in-one financial tool at www.monarchmoney.com/SLATE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. I'm Felix Hammond of Bloomberg. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times.
0:18.0	Hello. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:21.6	Hello.
0:22.6	We are going to talk about OpenAI and Disney.
0:26.6	Two massive companies that are now like getting into bed with each other.
0:30.6	But the thing is, you're not going to be allowed to make a video of them doing things in bed together.
0:36.6	We are going to talk about IPOs, of which there could be very many in 2026.
0:42.3	I mean, given where the stock market is, that kind of makes sense.
0:45.3	We are going to talk about pricing and whether it is okay that people on Instacart get
0:50.3	shown very different prices for the same object.
0:53.3	And somehow this is going to wind up
0:54.7	segueing into a discussion about not only World Cup pricing, but also the Trump card, the gold
1:01.0	card, the gold green card. We have a slate plus segment about data centers in space. Also,
1:10.2	in a couple of weeks, we're going to have a whole episode devoted to fire takes.
1:14.0	So please send us your most firetakes of 2025 on SlateMoney at Slate.com.
1:20.4	Do it in the form of a voice memo, if you will.
1:22.5	That would be amazing.
1:24.0	It's a fun one this week.
1:24.9	So stay tuned.
1:26.0	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:29.3	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
1:40.3	But using Canva was a really good one.
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