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Companies are killing themselves with AI | David Gerard
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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 bill which would limit AI companies liability in AI-enabled mass casualty events.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Author of Where's Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks to the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about a recent report which says at least half of data centres planned for 2026 will be delayed or cancelled, and the imbalance between what AI costs and what AI companies are charge.
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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.
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.
Tech journalist Will Guyatt talks to the Tech Report’s Alisha Agarwal about the rumoured end to the RAM crisis as OpenAI’s spending cuts throw their DRAM orders with Samsung and Sk Hynix into question.
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.
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Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how OpenAI is shifting towards the enterprise market before the company goes public as Sam Altman plan’s to double his company’s workforce while also ditching Sora and a deal with Disney.
Tech Journalist Chris Stokel-Walker talks to the Tech Report’s Alisha Agarwal about the British government’s backpedaling on AI copyright laws, whether creatives are right to celebrate, and the impact this could have on future data sets.
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.
Author of Where’s Your Ed At news letter and Host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron tells the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound the subscription models used for to pay for AI services are heavily subsidised and not sustainable.
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Professor Steve Keen tells the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound how an AI fuelled recession is inevitable, whether the AI bubble pops or not.
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.
AI writer for the Economist Alex Hern talks to the Tech Report's Alisha Agarwal about changes in the way we measure AI progression, AI being "economically useful" and whether or not ads should be allowed on AI models.
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Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the fallout of OpenAI’s pentagon deal and the wider implications of government less interested in AI regulation than the companies selling it.
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Writer of Wheres 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 bubble is a symptom of the collapsing illusion that SaaS can provide infinite growth and Oracle is stuck building outdated data centres with money the don’t have.
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Author of 'Marcus on AI' & Professor Emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU Gary Marcus talks to the Tech Report's Alisha Agarwal about Anthropics lawsuit against the US government, and whether this could be the trigger that pushes the pin in the AI bubble.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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The success of every data centre deal depends on “perfection,” which is not possible in the construction industry, says author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast, Ed Zitron.
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The answer is uncertain, but regulation is lacking and the consequences could be perilous.
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There’s been a perhaps deliberate mistranslation 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.
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This may not be the end of the consumer world for Nvidia but they can make a “boatload” more money making GPUs for the AI build out, says tech journalist Will Guyatt.
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Oracle has metaphorically “put the mortgage on the credit card” by raising more fund through a combination of further debt and equity sales, says writer of Wheres You’re-Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast, Ed Zitron.
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RAM prices are high because of the way companies are purchasing them as distributors are attempt to avoid their own supply issues, says YouTuber and Chief Analyst at More Than Moore, Dr Ian Cutress.
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For OpenAI to afford it’s $300bn five year agreement with Oracle, they will have to spend more than the entire revenue of Microsoft Azure in one year, says host of Better Offline Podcast & author of Where’s Your Ed At, Ed Zitron.
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The threat of AI to democracy, the internet and even itself is getting “worse and worse” and there’s not enough agreement that it’s a bad thing, says author of Marcus on AI and professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University, Gary Marcus.
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Without proper integration and training for workers we’re not going to be seeing enough positive outcomes to back up the hype around AI, says tech journalist Natasha Bernal.
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