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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.
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  AI Bubble: Nvidia can’t rely on other companies debt forever | Ed Zitron 28.08.2026 46min

  “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 acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  AI has failed to boost productivity says 90% of execs | Edward Ongweso Jr 27.08.2026 42min

  “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 boost to productivity from adopting the technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Data center developers have ‘dug their own graves’ | Brian Merchant 25.08.2026 29min

  “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.
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  Nobody wants to buy frontier AI anymore | Eli the Computer Guy 24.08.2026 25min

  “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.
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  Open AI’s Big Pause is Hubris, not Safety | Alex Hudson 21.08.2026 31min

  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; a new episode drops every Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.