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August 28 · 46 min
AI Bubble: Nvidia can’t rely on other companies debt forever | Ed Zitron
“Each quarters success is content on whether Nvidia’s various fin-dom victims will be able to raise debt.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the instability of Nvidia’s sky rocketing revenue growth and Anthropic’s lofty IPO target as they claim the addressable AI market is $30trn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 27 · 42 min
AI has failed to boost productivity says 90% of execs | Edward Ongweso Jr
“Until it’s clear how AI development can be centred on what workers and the consumers want, there’s no reason to expect the public not to hate AI.” Co-host of This Machine Kills and author of The Tech Bubble newsletter Edward Ongweso Jr joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the lack of identifiable return on investment from AI as 90% of executives admit they still have not seen any boost to productivity from adopting the technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 25 · 29 min
Data center developers have ‘dug their own graves’ | Brian Merchant
“There is no issue that unites the public like hatred of data centers, Big Tech, and the AI companies.” Author of the book and newsletter Blood in The Machine Brian Merchant joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about AI data center and local opposition after the governor of Texas says developers have “dug their own graves.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 24 · 25 min
Nobody wants to buy frontier AI anymore | Eli the Computer Guy
“It may not be feasible of them to say that they’re wrong.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the uncertain future of frontier AI model development as usage numbers for Anthropic’s Fable 5 have stagnated and OpenAI says they plan to slow down the development of their next model. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 21 · 31 min
Open AI’s Big Pause is Hubris, not Safety | Alex Hudson
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August 16 · 40 min
AI Bubble: ‘The moment they stop spending, they crash’ | Ed Zitron
“Nothing is where it needs to be. Absolutely nothing. Nvidia’s $200bn in revenue, that’s chump change compared to where they need to be in a year.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Nvidia exacerbating the AI bubble circular financing problem with a newly announced $500bn financing proposal as the SEC exempts some data center backed securities from regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 12 · 32 min
AI has started killing itself | David Gerard
“Why should people read something you couldn’t be bothered to write?” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about dead internet theory and how AI is eating itself as the CFO of Cloudflare predicts bots will outnumber humans 1000:1 in five years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 10 · 26 min
AI is now answering 911 calls | Eli the Computer Guy
“This is a great example of what AI should be used for… as long as the systems are designed properly.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the pros and cons of using AI in emergency call dispatching as New Orleans, Seattle and Atlanta incorporate AI emergency call answering agents into their 911 systems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 7 · 47 min
The AI boom is an illusion built on two companies | Ed Zitron
“If 70% of AI revenues are these two companies, there is no AI industry.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of the AI industry as it’s revealed that over two thirds of hyperscaler AI revenue is coming from two companies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 6 · 24 min
AI surveillance is already being abused | Joseph Cox 404 Media
“People don’t want Tech coming into their neighbourhood without permission, or arrogantly.” 404 Media’s Joseph Cox joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the controversies surrounding automatic license plate recognition cameras as the backlash against Flock grows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 5 · 33 min
Office workers don’t want to use AI anymore | Paris Marx
“I think we’re in this moment where those promises are starting to kind of erode.” Tech journalist and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about AI in the workplace after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns one of the biggest risks of AI is ‘cognitive atrophy’ and a study by Adaptavist reveals two thirds of office workers want to go back to working without AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 3 · 27 min
Rogue AI agents aren’t the real problem | Eli the Computer Guy
“They committed felonies and the government isn’t doing anything.” Eli the Computer Guy joints The Tech Report’s Isaac pound to talk about the negligence of AI companies after OpenAI and Anthropic admit their agents were hacking other companies without their knowledge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 31 · 39 min
AI Bubble: ‘We’re coming to the end of this’ | Ed Zitron
“It’s never been about what LLMs can actually do. It’s about the perception of AI’s potential.” Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of circular financing in the AI bubble after Nvidia floated a $250 loan guarantee to build OpenAI a data center and another $350 loan of GPUs to put in it. Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/o5w5z8mj9q Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 30 · 26 min
AI CEOs are trying to slow down model development | Gary Marcus
“I’ not sure this really is going to be paced. I think it’s almost like a cry for help.” Author of 'Marcus on AI' and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about OpenAI and Anthropic backing an international slow down of AI model development, that AI pacing might look like and why AI companies should not be left to regulate themselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 28 · 46 min
The AI Lie: ‘It’s not just misleading it’s dangerous’ | House of El: AI
“I’m very exited about this technology… but I’m also deeply critical of how it’s being deployed and I don’t think those two positions are contradictory.” El from House of El joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the pro-AI vs anti-AI debate, some fundamental misunderstandings that deepen the divide and why differentiating types of artificial intelligence is important when criticising AI companies’ business strategies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 27 · 23 min
SpaceX’s crash gives xAI $0 valuation | Eli the Computer Guy
“The debt always comes due.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the continued drop in the valuation of SpaceX and Tesla as Elon Musk struggles to make the business case for his unproven technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 26 · 16 min
OpenAI’s ads are failing and it can’t survive without them | Ed Zitron
“We’re in a situation where the only way of sustaining free large language models isn’t going to work.” Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss OpenAI falling short of its own internal ad targets and how the company cannot survive without them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 24 · 26 min
AI Bubble: Tech giants are hiding $1.65trn in AI debt | Ed Zitron
“People are dreaming so they don’t have to face the nightmare of reality.” Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the $1.65trn of AI debt being kept off the books of the hyperscalers and how the same big tech companies have already protected themselves from the worst of the AI bubble popping. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 23 · 37 min
Data Centres Canceled: $286bn blocked and delayed by local opposition | Paris Marx
“People do have the power to shut data centers down and to disrupt the narrative of inevitability the tech industry relies on.” Author of Hyperscalers and host of Tech Won’t Save Us Paris Marx join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how the public is turning on the AI industry and has so fare blocked or delayed $286bn of data center development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 21 · 28 min
Kimi 3: AI bench marks are just marketing | David Gerard
“Absolutely everyone tunes their models to all the benchmarks.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the value of AI benchmarking following the reaction to Kimi 3, Chinese company Moonshot’s newest open weight LLM that created a shock to US tech stocks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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