The Tech Report
Welcome to the Tech Report, where you can keep up to date with everything you need to know from the fast-changing world of technology. Every week we’ll bring you interviews with leading experts, journalists and commentators on everything from the future of AI to tech bro meltdowns.
Episodes
Hyperscalers are hiding a massive secret about uninstalled GPUs | Ed Zitron
“I estimate $200bn to $300bn worth of GPUs are either in warehouses or sitting in unpowered data centres.”Writers 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 data center overbuild and Oracle issuing a force majeure notice over expected delays to it’s data center project in New Mexico. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr
AI wasn’t made for you | Paris Marx
“The threat of AI is there to force down wages and essentially force down the leverage of workers.”Host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and author of Hyperscalers Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the intersection between AI and labor movements as the AI backlash grows and new figures reveal support for unions are at a record high. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac
Frontier AI is getting rejected by businesses | Dean Baker
“They need trillions of dollars in revenue. Who’s going to pay it?”Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how some of the founding principles of the AI industry are now in question after business leaders admit they’re not using frontier models. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio
OpenAI is going to lose 90% of its revenue | Eli the Computer Guy
“Nobody cared about the model.”Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the tech underpinning the AI hype and how the industry is moving away from reliance on frontier models. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AI can’t afford to slow down | Ed Zitron
“They’re talking about super intelligence and AI that trains itself so you take your eye off of what’s happening today.”Writers 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 if the AI industry can afford to slow down and why industry leaders are calling for a pacing of development in the first place. Hosted on Acast. See ac
AI Bubble: ‘This could humiliate the largest companies in the world’ | Ed Zitron
“Half of Nvidia’s revenue could literally be sitting in warehouses.”Writers 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 why the AI industry is continuing to buy AI chips despite reports that significant amounts of GPUs are going uninstalled. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AI Safety: ‘Sam Altman should face a grand jury’ | Eli the Computer Guy
“If you drag Dario Amodei and Sam Altman in front of a grand jury I think we’ll solve a lot of these problems incredibly quickly.”Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the AI safety, regulation and the possible explanation for why OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI are really calling for the pace of AI development to be slowed down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor
AI is about to his a cashflow wall | Ed Zitron
“The vast majority, including the richest of investors do not know what they’re investing in. They have no idea.”Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the exaggerated claims AI will eradicate the human race and the next stage in the commoditisation of AI, compute futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
We must pop the AI bubble sooner rather than later | Cory Doctorow
“If enshitificaiton is what you do when you’ve grown your market all you can and then you squeeze it, then AI is what happens when you run out of squeezing.”Author of The Reverse Centaur’s Guide To Life After AI Cory Doctorow join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the the narrative and economics of Artificial Intelligence and why the AI bubble needs to end sooner rather than later. Hoste
Poisoning AI is trivially easy | Deana Burke
“There is this sort of laundering that’s happening around recommendations that ChatGPT and the chatbots are doing.”Author of Regular Benchmarks and Co-Founder of Boys Club Deana Burke joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how chatbots can be easily influenced by marketing information and incorrect data. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The hype around AI is dying | Eli the Computer Guy
“The excitement around AI is dying at the same time they need more investment.”Eli the Computer Guy join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the value proposition of ChatGPT 6 ‘Astra’ as industry leader declare we have entered the era of AGI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Only 1% of customers are holding up the AI bubble | Ed Zitron
“1% of customers hold up everything else.”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 instability of the AI industry as new Ramp statistics reveal that the 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic’s revenue come from 1% of their customers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nobody wants to buy something AI generated | David Gerard
“The use case for AI is work that should not have been done.”Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why people don’t want to buy or use AI generated products and content as companies like Spotify and LinkedIn take steps to limit and remove AI slop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Data center opposition is only going to grow | Jowi Morales
“The opposition to AI data centers is only going to grow.”Tech journalist Jowi Morales joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of the AI build out after Sam Altman admitted people ‘clearly hate’ the developments as the total cost of blocked and delayed data centres reaches $150bn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sam Altman was wrong about AI | Eli the Computer Guy
“Sam Altman has backed himself into a corner.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how specialised AI is looking to replace generalist models as OpenAI looks to slow down model development and Thomson Reuters released a model trained on 175 years of proprietary data for $40m. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 acas
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 boos
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.
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.
Open AI’s Big Pause is Hubris, not Safety | Alex Hudson
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
"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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
"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
“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
“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
“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
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