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
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
Workers are sabotaging AI and poisoning company data | Natasha Bernal
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
“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
"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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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AI has made a recession unavoidable | Professor Steve Keen
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Is the financial aspect of AI becoming too demanding? Also is Meta facing layoffs?
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?
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
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AI hype is ‘grifting’ the SaaS industry | Ed Zitron
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Will the AI boom stop?
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.
The Tech Report - Recap
On this Episode of The Tech Report we bring you the best of our past three episodes. Our regular hosts speak to author Ed Zitron, military tech expert Kyle Chan, and journalist Natasha Bernal to discuss claims Chinese AI firms are copycats, investment in OpenAI, and plans for robot soldiers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
OpenAI is one failed funding round from bankruptcy | Ed Zitron
“OpenAI think they’re building something to capture all out futures. When they’re actually building the end of theirs.”Author of Wheres You’re Ed At & Host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about OpenAI struggle to fulfil it’s $100bn funding target and the state of the circular funding behind Nvidia’s quarterly revenue report.Here's $10 off an annua
The Tech Report - Recap
On this Episode of The Tech Report we bring you the best of our past three episodes. Host Isaac Pound speaks to Ed Zitron, Dr Ian Cuttress & Professor Steve Keen to discuss AI productivity, the AI chip crisis, and the end of Bitcoin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
90% of CEOs admit AI provides zero productivity growth | Ed Zitron
“We’re reaching this thing where we’re realising that everybody made a huge mistake.”Author of Wheres You’re Ed At and Host of the Better Offline Podcast Ed Zitron tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that the data on productivity growth from AI adoption is flat and AI adopters are entering a “hysterical episode” as they look for pay offs from their investments.Here's $10 off an annual subscription
This could be the end of Bitcoin | Professor Steve Keen
“I think that may be the beginning of the end of Bitcoin.”Professor Steve Keen told The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that if nothing else, the energy cost will be the end of bitcoin and the trading of Bitcoin on regulated markets through ETFs was a “mistake.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Consumer tech is headed for a subscription economy | Ian Cutress
“These ‘subsidised gadgets’ could that be more of a thing going forward. Yes.”Chief analyst at More Than Moore and YouTuber Dr Ian Cutress tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that consumers are already familiar with purchasing phones or cars on a contract and it is something that could become more common place as data centres continue to “gobble up” chip supply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv
AI Bubble: How the data centre crisis risks triggering a financial crash | Ed Zitron
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America is not ready for how AI will affect jobs | 'The existential issue is here'
Today on The Tech Report, Fergus Macphee is joined by Josh Tyrangiel to discuss a long-read piece he has written in The Atlantic. Through speaking with AI execs, company CEOs, union bosses and political figures from opposing sides such as Steve Bannon & Bernie Sanders, Josh's report poses the question of how prepared America is for potential wholesale change to the job market. The answer is un
AI productivity bubble: Early adopters are already burning out | Natasha Bernal
“There will be a wake up call and a reckoning for entire sectors who are adopting AI”There’s been a perhaps deliberate miss translations where people think the increased productivity from the use of AI will give them more spare time rather than make them work harder, says tech journalist Natasha Bernal.📻 Listen to Times Radio - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio🗞 Subscribe to The Times https://www.t
The Icarus Paradox: The Exodus at Elon Musk's xAI Company | Terence Mauri
Susan Owens is joined by Terence Mauri, the founder the management think tank, Hack Future Lab to discuss the mass exodus at xAI, ethical leadership and Elon Musk's recent plans to develop a self-growing city on the Moon.You can watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/oUiGuyNU2XY📻 Listen to Times Radio - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio🗞 Subscribe to The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/subs
Introducing: 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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