The Tech Report

Open AI’s Big Pause is Hubris, not Safety | Alex Hudson Aug 21, 2026 31:41 Journalist and AI Advisor Alex Hudson from the Crashed podcast joins The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt to look into Open AI’s slowing down of AI development to overhaul safety systems, They also discuss warnings to UK local government that AI tools are not a silver bullet to recoup £4bn budget cuts, new AI slop research and a start-up’s new writing policy.Alex Hudson is co-host of the Crashed podcast

AI Bubble: ‘The moment they stop spending, they crash’ | Ed Zitron Aug 16, 2026 40:08 “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 exem

AI has started killing itself | David Gerard Aug 12, 2026 32:54 “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.

AI is now answering 911 calls | Eli the Computer Guy Aug 10, 2026 26:19 “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.

The AI boom is an illusion built on two companies | Ed Zitron Aug 7, 2026 47:12 “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.

AI surveillance is already being abused | Joseph Cox 404 Media Aug 6, 2026 24:59 “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.

Office workers don’t want to use AI anymore | Paris Marx Aug 5, 2026 33:52 “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

Rogue AI agents aren’t the real problem | Eli the Computer Guy Aug 3, 2026 27:56 “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.

AI Bubble: ‘We’re coming to the end of this’ | Ed Zitron Jul 31, 2026 39:29 “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 lin

AI CEOs are trying to slow down model development | Gary Marcus Jul 30, 2026 26:41 “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 thems

The AI Lie: ‘It’s not just misleading it’s dangerous’ | House of El: AI Jul 28, 2026 46:40 “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

SpaceX’s crash gives xAI $0 valuation | Eli the Computer Guy Jul 27, 2026 23:10 “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.

OpenAI’s ads are failing and it can’t survive without them | Ed Zitron Jul 26, 2026 16:45 “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.

AI Bubble: Tech giants are hiding $1.65trn in AI debt | Ed Zitron Jul 24, 2026 26:37 “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. S

Data Centres Canceled: $286bn blocked and delayed by local opposition | Paris Marx Jul 23, 2026 37:22 “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 m

Kimi 3: AI bench marks are just marketing | David Gerard Jul 21, 2026 28:24 “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.

Meta’s biggest problem is its CEO | Eli the Computer Guy Jul 20, 2026 29:37 "The bigger problem with meta is just Mark Zuckerberg has just been a disaster for the past number of years."Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report's Isaac Pound to talk about the dangers of using AI for business decisions after Meta allegedly disproportionally cut staff who took time off because AI flagged them as underperforming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI Bubble: Data center equity is getting dumped | Ed Zitron Jul 17, 2026 33:16 “The people that got harmed the most are those who trusted Sam Altman the most.”Writer of Where Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Oracle’s credit rating being downgraded to one level above junk and majority stakes in data center companies being offered to private equity firms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor

AI Backlash: ‘This is a self-inflicted public relations apocalypse’ | Gil Duran Jul 16, 2026 27:51 “The AI companies have done us great favour of making this an immediate, visceral, visual threat.”Journalist and Author of Nerd Reich Gil Duran joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why the American public supports public ownership of AI companies and what it would look like if it happens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The rising cost of AI is reaching tipping point | David Gerard Jul 15, 2026 40:12 “I think we’re getting there… AI doesn’t work very well and it’s sort of selling itself on the future promises.”Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the fundamental problem with the AI development business model, selling it at a price people can and will pay for. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘AI is simply a set of buzzwords’ | Eli the Computer Guy Jul 14, 2026 28:10 “People fundamentally don’t understand what the real value this technology is supposed to bring.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the disillusionment surrounding SpaceX’s stock price despite an optimistic Wall Street as well what the rise and fall tells us about the mood in the AI and tech industry as it braces for further volatility. Hosted on Acast. See acas

AI Bubble: We’re headed for the first Tech Great Depression | Ed Zitron Jul 13, 2026 32:18 “I think we’re on the path to the first real tech Great Depression.”Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offlines podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss recent analysis showing the together the five largest US hyperscalers have become net cash borrowers in an attempt to fund the buildout of AI, a technology which has never been profitable. Hosted on Aca

Are Chatbots Driving Us mad? | Maggie Harrison Dupré Jul 9, 2026 34:48 “Why are chatbots doubling down on these ideas when the user is very clearly saying ‘I am in distress’ or ‘I am confused, can you help me?’”Senior staff writer at Futurism Maggie Harrison Dupré joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how where AI delusions and AI psychosis come from, how chatbots have been found to co-create delusions and the role tech companies have played by marketing

AI adopters are already rehiring cut staff | David Gerard Jul 8, 2026 32:14 “It’s the surviving companies that will rehire, the others will have killed themselves with AI.”Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the growing trend of companies rehiring for roles previously cut under the belief AI could replace jobs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI Bubble: ‘Frontier models have run their course’ | Eli the Computer Guy Jul 6, 2026 25:45 “The argument for building more of these AI data centers is getting worse by the day.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss OpenAI’s reported inference halving breakthrough and how the astronomical spending by the AI industry has created a vulnerability to innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI Bubble: The data center oversupply crisis is coming | Ed Zitron Jul 6, 2026 39:17 “It’s yet another one of those instances where you wonder why people haven’t seen this coming.”Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about some concerning cases of AI psychosis in the workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The rise of AI psychosis at work | Natasha Bernal Jul 2, 2026 39:21 “It’s yet another one of those instances where you wonder why people haven’t seen this coming.”Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about some concerning cases of AI psychosis in the workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI’s path to profit is getting further away | Will Guyatt Jul 2, 2026 23:37 “As a tech company, you’re not going to be able to buy the supply to built your data center.”Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about what ChatGPT 5.6’s restricted launch means for the way America will regulated AI and how the memory crisis is unsustainable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI data centers could be obsolete by 2030 | Eli the Computer Guy Jun 29, 2026 24:43 “We are building data centres as if we understand what we’re doing, when I really don’t think we do.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to unpick Nvidia’s new closed loop water-cooling technology that promises to ‘eliminate’ water consumption of data centres and how the speed of the AI built out risks wasting money on obsolete infrastructure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr

AI Bubble: ‘This could be OpenAI’s death spiral’ | Ed Zitron Jun 26, 2026 40:41  “So we’re sitting on this series of time bombs and the fact the people with the money haven’t been asking the questions is genuinely dangerous.”Author of Where Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about OpenAI delaying their IPO and the multi-trillion dollar tech stock sell off that has followed a souring in public an investo

People are hating AI the more they use it | Natasha Bernal Jun 24, 2026 36:32 “It’s kind of a damming indictment for the use of these tools… that the people using them most are kind of like ‘eh’.”Tech journalists Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why public opinion of AI is souring while usage rates are going up and what the growing backlash against the technology means for the business models of frontier AI labs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co

Google is now legally responsible for AI lies | Paris Marx Jun 23, 2026 30:51 “It opens them up to a new kind of front of liability”Host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about a ruling in Germany that found Google liable for the inaccuracies of its AI Overviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How the Anthropic ban derails the AI boom | Eli the Computer Guy Jun 22, 2026 28:33 “If I was like an Argentinian CTO, I cannot fathom why I would build my architecture and American AI right now. There's no way I would have trust in that.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the export ban on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5, and how the resulting uncertainty will put off business looking to adopt AI into their workflows. Hosted on Acast. See aca

OpenAI’s leaked financials explained by Ed Zitron Jun 19, 2026 34:36 “You shouldn’t be debating whether AI has ROI… you don’t get to do that anymore. You’ve burned over $1trn on this.”Author of Where Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to dig into OpenAI’s leaked financials and how AI has hit a price wall with token-based billing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why you shouldn't build a business on AI subscriptions | Natasha Bernal Jun 17, 2026 36:11 “It’s a mistake to wipe out a whole skill set based on the ability of one AI tool that you have as a subscription.”Tech Journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how AI is deepening wage inequality, how that divide is playing out on graduates and the instability of rebuilding a business around an AI subscription. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf

OpenAI doesn’t know where the money is in AI | Eli the Computer Guy Jun 15, 2026 25:14 “Sometimes very valuable, very important technology doesn’t have a business case.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Apple’s plan for interfacing with AI and OpenAI’s miscalculation about where the real money in AI is going to be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI bubble: ‘It’s approaching vindication hour for me’ | Ed Zitron Jun 12, 2026 31:54 “It’s been less than three months and their customers are taking hostages.”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 record breaking SpaceX IPO and how AI’s subsidy crisis is getting worse as OpenAI and Anthropic consider price cuts after enterprise customers revolt over token-based pricing. Hosted on Acast.

Can Apple make AI less annoying and maybe even useful? | Will Guyatt Jun 1, 2026 21:58 “It leaves companies like OpenAI and Anthropic massively exposed.”Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Apple’s AI strategy ahead of their World Wide Developer Conference and how being late to market gives them the chance to focus on solving many people’s complaints about AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This OpenAI’s ‘doom scenario’ | Eric Newcomer May 23, 2026 24:18 “I’m deeply worried that there’s this effort to rush the indexes… so that all our assets are invested before anyone has really done an independent assessment.”Founder of tech and venture capital media group Newcomer, Eric Newcomer, joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic overtaking OpenAI in enterprise sales and what the ChatGPT company’s “doom scenario” is they head to IPO. Ho

OpenAI’s IPO is a move of ‘desperation’ | Ed Zitron May 22, 2026 36:12 “We’re basically saying the tech industry will double its revenue in four years… that’s an insane poison to hold, that money needs to come from somewhere.”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 OpenAI hasty IPO and the impossible maths behind the AI boom.Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronsw

AI to create more jobs than it eliminates after 2028, study reveals | Natasha Bernal May 20, 2026 34:27 “They are risking a huge productivity crisis.”Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about a recent study which says AI will create more jobs than it eliminates from 2028 onwards and how executives who fail to upskill their employees will lack the workforce to fill those new roles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Samsung strike could derail the whole AI boom | Eli the Computer Guy May 18, 2026 23:34 “If they force the entire world to take 18 days to really start thinking about the deployment of all this hardware… is that going to be the more dangerous problem for the AI industry.”Eli the Computer Guy joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Samsung employees taking strike action over unfair distribution of the profits of surging memory prices and whether the AI bubble can survive the

Ed Zitron: You are being lied to about the AI data center boom May 15, 2026 32:53 “When it breaks, it’s going to be an aggressive, horrifying turn because there are no fundamentals to fall back on here.”Author of Where's Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the brewing scandal as data centres are not getting built at the rate people expect and how intentionally misleading terms are being used to obscure that reality. Hosted

Musk vs Altman: There were no grownups in the room | Chris Stokel-Walker May 14, 2026 21:49 “Neither person in this story is a hero… in terms of a settlement, I think it’s probably too late now.”Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to take a look at the biggest moments so far from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and to talk about how the grown-up facade of some Silicon Valley CEO is slipping. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio

Meta workers revolt over surveillance as layoffs undermine AI profits | Natasha Bernal May 13, 2026 28:26 “It’s the first of what I expect be a series of studies on what actually is happening behind all of these AI related layoffs.”Technology journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why Meta employees are protesting over workplace surveillance and how a recent study by Gartner shows cutting headcount as part of AI adoption is undermining return on investment. Hosted

Opposition to data centers will define US midterms | Data Center Watch May 12, 2026 25:03 “We are working under the hypothesis that the data centre issue is going to be one of the main issues of the midterms.”Lead Researcher at Data Center Watch Miquel Vila tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound how opposition to data centres has increased with public awareness to the point that it is defining elections already. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI Bubble: Banks are selling AI debt at discount | Ed Zitron May 11, 2026 36:34 “Every time you look for the supposed gold mine, you find someone just handing someone money instead of the gold coming out.”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 circular financing propping up the AI bubble and Goldman Sachs’ Tracking Trillions report which describes the AI boom as driven by fear rather

Musk vs Altman: ‘This isn’t going the way Elon Musk wanted’ | Will Guyatt May 7, 2026 23:02 Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins The Tech Reports Isaac Pound to talk about the most recent drama from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as testimony reveals previously unknown financial conflicts and desires to use the AI company to raise money for cities on Mars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI productivity myth: AI layoffs are destroying productivity | Natasha Bernal May 6, 2026 40:55 “They’re losing institutional knowledge, they’re losing skills left, right and centre.”Tech journalist Natasha Bernal join the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the repercussion of AI layoffs and how survivors productivity falls further than AI is increasing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How ‘Pathological’ Silicon Valley fanatics are blocking AI regulation | Timothy Noah May 5, 2026 23:33 “As oligarchs go, Tech moguls are much more visibly crazy.”Staff writer for The New Republic and author of The Great Divergence, Timothy Noah, tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that the resistance to regulation within the tech industry has become “pathological” leaving tech moguls looking like Bond villains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

OpenAI’s business model is ‘falling apart’ | Ed Zitron May 4, 2026 45:54 “OpenAI need to grow so much more, and any slowing in growth suggests that it’s comical to expect them to reach these targets.”Author of Where's Your Ed At & Host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about what the fallout of OpenAI missing it’s revenue and user targets means for the circular financing of the AI bubble, and Nvidia’s VP of Applied

The AI Rebellion: How rural America is fighting Data Centres | Stop The Data Centre May 1, 2026 55:18 “If we compare to even factory work in this area, that have held jobs… the world of the data centre is actually infinitely worse along every metric.”Campaign organisers at Ypsilanti Michigan’s Stop The Data Centre campaign Stephanie Beth Jordan and Elizabeth Stewart, join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how local opposition to data centres, in town’s like Ypsilanti, is shaping national

Palantir workers are start to ask ‘are we the bad guys’ | Natasha Bernal Apr 30, 2026 41:38 “They’ve planted the flag in the sand. If people weren’t paying attention before, it’s certainly very clear from them now.”Tech Journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Palantir and its CEO Alex Karp after leaked messaged from employees revealed a crisis of faith within the company over its unpopular ideology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor

Musk vs Altman: A ‘messy’ feud that could reshape AI | Chris Stokel-Walker Apr 29, 2026 23:25 “They are two messy people, and so they are making the lawsuit as messy as possible.”Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman could reshape the AI industry as SpaceX and OpenAI plan to go public. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ChatGPT 5.5: ‘This is just a software update’ | Meredith Broussard Apr 28, 2026 22:44 “Let’s be honest, this is a software update.”Author of More Than A Glitch and NYU data journalism professor Meredith Broussard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to unpick the marketing surrounding OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5 and how AI developers use selective and limited benchmarking to “rig” their numbers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How OpenAI ends and takes Oracle with it | Ed Zitron Apr 27, 2026 40:19 “At this point, I don’t know what saves Oracle from the void.”Author of Where's Your Ed At & Host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the Anthropic beating OpenAI to hit $1trn valuation on secondary markets, the most resilient AI developer Microsoft shifting to charging token rates and how Oracle’s Stargate is a threat to the companies existence.Ho

Why Apple gave up on building its own AI | Snazzy Labs’ Quinn Nelson Apr 27, 2026 22:40 “There is no mistaking that Apple is behind [on AI]… but Apple is profitable.” Snazzy Labs host Quinn Nelson joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Apple’s new CEO Jon Ternus and what is appointment means for the company’s future AI plans following its lacklustre performance in model development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Support for data centres plummets in industry ‘capital’ | Elena Schlossberg Apr 22, 2026 38:54 "The data centre industry, it’s like a plague.”Executive director of The Coalition To Protect Prince William County Elena Schlossberg tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the fight against the Prince William Gateway, a 5GW data centre, and how local support for data centres in the industry’s capital, Virgina, has halved in three years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati

The Cybertruck is an ‘unmitigated disaster’ | Will Guyatt Apr 21, 2026 20:57 “Without SpaceX buying Cybertrucks, nobody else would be buying them.”Tech journalist Will Guyatt tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that Cybertrucks are an “unmitigated disaster” as Elon Musk is using SpaceX to increase sales numbers.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘The AI industry is ignoring how much people hate it’ | Ed Zitron Apr 20, 2026 34:00 “The AI industry is ignoring how much people hate it.”Author of Where's Your Ed At & host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the attack on Sam Altman and the “dangerous rhetoric” surrounding the AI boom.Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzit

The AI arms race is a lobbying myth | Bruce Schneier Apr 17, 2026 21:36 “If a pharmaceutical company decided to market a drug that kills people and then say ‘well, it kills less than 100 people, so we’re not liable,’ we’d look at them and say ‘you’re freaking crazy.’”Internationally renowned security researcher and author of Rewiring Democracy Bruce Schneier joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss AI regulation as OpenAI and Anthropic fight over an Illinois bil

Workers are sabotaging AI and poisoning company data | Natasha Bernal Apr 16, 2026 34:54 Tech journalist Natasha Bernal talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the movement of workers sabotaging their employers AI rollouts, Tesla’s stock price continuing to plummet and how the rhetoric around AI has turned violent with the attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why 80% of workers are rejecting ai mandates | Nick Lichtenberg Apr 14, 2026 21:42 “If workers felt like someone was trying to actually listen to them a their issues with AI… then the anger could come down a bit.”Fortune Business Editor Nick Lichtenberg talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the state of AI’s adoption into the workplace and why workers are left feeling angry and disenfranchised by executive pressure to AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in

Data centres cancelled: ‘Every data centre has local opposition’ | Karen Feraden Apr 14, 2026 21:16 "I think they'd rather bail, honestly, than try to move forward with these projects."Co-founder of better path coalition Karen Feraden tells the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the growing opposition to data centres in the US and the “waining enthusiasm” among hyperscalers trying to push through projects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘Sam Altman is an historic con artist’ | Ed Zitron Apr 10, 2026 30:32 “This is the largest con inside the LLM market”Ariter 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 Sam Altman’s fall from grace following a New Yorker expose and the PR scam surrounding Claude Mythos.The Hater's Guide to OpenAI: https://www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-openai/Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheres

Claude Mythos is mostly ‘marketing hype’ | Bruce Schneier Apr 10, 2026 23:23 “They’re convincing a lot of people that Mythos is this amazing step change in capability when the evidence right now… is that it might not be.”Renowned security researcher and author of Rewiring Democracy Bruce Schneier tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound the noise and fear around Claude Mythos is mostly “marketing hype” and many other smaller AI models are just as capable. Hosted on Acast. See a

AI’s biggest weakness exposed by the Iran war Apr 8, 2026 23:42 “Data centre can very much be legitimate military targets.”Cyber and Tech research fellow at RUSI Joseph Jarnecki joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to explore what Iran’s targeting of American tech interests in the region means for the future of big tech’s “fragile” infrastructure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘Half of data centres aren’t getting built’ | Ed Zitron Apr 3, 2026 23:29 “Hyperscalers have gone from the asset light cash machines to asset heavy behemoths.”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 how the Ai build out is not as big as it seems meanwhile Nvidia’s GPUs are going unused and losing value spelling trouble for CoreWeave’s GPU backed debt.Ed's latest free newsletter: http

The AI market is wrong about Google’s TurboQuant | Boris Gamazaychikov Apr 2, 2026 16:40 “I don’t think this is a magic solution to change the paradigm of how we use AI or the hardware.”AI sustainability leader Boris Gamazaychikov talks to the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about why TurboQuant, Google’s new compression breakthrough, is another DeepSeek moment for the AI industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is Big Tech losing it's influence Apr 2, 2026 38:49 Tech Journalist Natasha Bernal talks about the influence  of big tech companies and does it outweigh their accountability? Will Guyatt tells us that there might be an end to the RAM crisis as OpenAI’s spending cuts throw their DRAM orders with Samsung and Sk Hynix into questionAnd Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks about how the AI build

Big Tech is headed for a reckoning | Natasha Bernal Apr 1, 2026 29:20 “I think we are approaching a reckoning.”Tech journalist Natasha Bernal talks to the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about how people are becoming more wary of big tech companies whose influence far outweighs their accountability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron Mar 30, 2026 32:38 “Hyperscalers have gone from the asset light cash machines to asset heavy behemoths.”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 how the Ai build out is not as big as it seems meanwhile Nvidia’s GPUs are going unused and losing value spelling trouble for CoreWeave’s GPU backed debt.Ed's latest free newsletter: http

AI bubble won’t survive the war in Iran much longer | Tej Parikh Mar 24, 2026 22:29 “If this is still going on for another month or so then we’re in a real problem territory.”The Financial Times’s Tej Parikh talks to the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about how the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is threatening to derail the AI boom and a major supply chain weakness has been exposed by the conflict. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI Bubble: Nobody will pay for unsubsidised AI | Ed Zitron Mar 20, 2026 32:31 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI has made a recession unavoidable | Professor Steve Keen Mar 19, 2026 28:37 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is the financial aspect of AI becoming too demanding? Also is Meta facing layoffs? Mar 19, 2026 29:57 Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Meta considering plans to cut 20% of its workforce as their latest AI model faces delays. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The end of 'unlimited' tech industry growth? Mar 17, 2026 41:51 On this episode of The Tech Report we’re discussing the limits to revenue growth from software - and what this tells us about AI, the continued fallout from OpenAi’s Pentagon Deal, and Anthropic’s lawsuit against the US government. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What the ChatGPT user exodus means for the future of AI Mar 16, 2026 21:04 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI hype is ‘grifting’ the SaaS industry | Ed Zitron Mar 16, 2026 34:16 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will the AI boom stop? Mar 10, 2026 38:14 On this episode of The Tech Report we discuss the AI bubble, how cryptocurrency funds North Korea and Iran, and Anthropic's battle with the Pentagon. Tech journalists Chris Stokel-Walker and Natasha Bernal and founder of the Global Cryptocurrency Laundering Report Alexander Browder join our regular presenters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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