The Tech Report

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  “Banks Are Herd Animals” | Ed Zitron on the AI Debt Slow Boil 09.10.2026 44min

  “It’s kind of like a student loan where your mum or your dad co-signs, except your mum is Sundar Pichai.” The Tech Report's Will Guyatt talks with Ed Zitron about his latest newsletter article 'Credit Crunch,' and how raising debt is becoming more costly for many key players in the AI business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  "Superintelligence Is 'Completely Stupid' – Eli the Computer Guy 09.10.2026 30min

  "If Apple comes out with AI AirPods, you might call the police." Eli the Computer Guy joins the Tech Report's Will Guyatt to discuss the White House rebranding of AI as Superintelligence and grapples with accusations that Google has been 'benchmaxxing' their latest AI model, Gemini Argon 4. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  “There’s no such thing as Rogue AI” David Gerard 08.10.2026 31min

  Following Sam Altman’s suggestion that the world should accept “some bad things” in exchange for AI, The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt joins Pivot to AI’s David Gerard to discuss whether it's necessary to endure bad things - and whether anybody at OpenAI is still concerned about safety. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  "AI is a multipole Enron" | David Gerard 06.10.2026 30min

  Will Guyatt from The Tech Report talks to David Gerard from Pivot-to-AI about Oracle referring to a gas-pipeline delay at a mega data centre as an act of God, and why the business of building AI infrastructure increasingly looks like a house of cards. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_tech_reprt/ Facebook: @TheTechReport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  “I’m really starting to see these companies as criminal enterprises” | Eli the Computer Guy 06.10.2026 28min

  “Rogue AI agent is going to become the word of 2026.” Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt about a new MIT Technology Review article which says almost every claimed AI advance this summer was overhyped. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_tech_reprt/ Facebook: @TheTechReport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Hyperscalers are hiding a massive secret about uninstalled GPUs | Ed Zitron 25.09.2026 48min

  “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/privacy for more information.
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  AI wasn’t made for you | Paris Marx 24.09.2026 35min

  “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/privacy for more information.
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  Frontier AI is getting rejected by businesses | Dean Baker 23.09.2026 30min

  “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 information.
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  OpenAI is going to lose 90% of its revenue | Eli the Computer Guy 21.09.2026 38min

  “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.
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  AI can’t afford to slow down | Ed Zitron 18.09.2026 22min

  “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 acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  AI Bubble: ‘This could humiliate the largest companies in the world’ | Ed Zitron 17.09.2026 26min

  “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.
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  AI Safety: ‘Sam Altman should face a grand jury’ | Eli the Computer Guy 14.09.2026 34min

  “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 more information.
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  AI is about to his a cashflow wall | Ed Zitron 11.09.2026 44min

  “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 for more information.
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  We must pop the AI bubble sooner rather than later | Cory Doctorow 10.09.2026 56min

  “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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Poisoning AI is trivially easy | Deana Burke 08.09.2026 31min

  “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.
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  The hype around AI is dying | Eli the Computer Guy 07.09.2026 28min

  “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.
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  Only 1% of customers are holding up the AI bubble | Ed Zitron 07.09.2026 32min

  “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.
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  Nobody wants to buy something AI generated | David Gerard 03.09.2026 31min

  “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.
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  Data center opposition is only going to grow | Jowi Morales 02.09.2026 31min

  “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.
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  Sam Altman was wrong about AI | Eli the Computer Guy 31.08.2026 27min

  “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.