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The Tech Report

Times Radio 55 Episodes Jul 2, 2026

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

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.

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