The Tech Report

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  AI has started killing itself | David Gerard 12.08.2026 32min

  “Why should people read something you couldn’t be bothered to write?”Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about dead internet theory and how AI is eating itself as the CFO of Cloudflare predicts bots will outnumber humans 1000:1 in five years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  AI is now answering 911 calls | Eli the Computer Guy 10.08.2026 26min

  “This is a great example of what AI should be used for… as long as the systems are designed properly.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the pros and cons of using AI in emergency call dispatching as New Orleans, Seattle and Atlanta incorporate AI emergency call answering agents into their 911 systems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The AI boom is an illusion built on two companies | Ed Zitron 07.08.2026 47min

  “If 70% of AI revenues are these two companies, there is no AI industry.”Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of the AI industry as it’s revealed that over two thirds of hyperscaler AI revenue is coming from two companies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  AI surveillance is already being abused | Joseph Cox 404 Media 06.08.2026 24min

  “People don’t want Tech coming into their neighbourhood without permission, or arrogantly.”404 Media’s Joseph Cox joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the controversies surrounding automatic license plate recognition cameras as the backlash against Flock grows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Office workers don’t want to use AI anymore | Paris Marx 05.08.2026 33min

  “I think we’re in this moment where those promises are starting to kind of erode.”Tech journalist and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about AI in the workplace after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns one of the biggest risks of AI is ‘cognitive atrophy’ and a study by Adaptavist reveals two thirds of office workers want to go back to working without AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Rogue AI agents aren’t the real problem | Eli the Computer Guy 03.08.2026 27min

  “They committed felonies and the government isn’t doing anything.”Eli the Computer Guy joints The Tech Report’s Isaac pound to talk about the negligence of AI companies after OpenAI and Anthropic admit their agents were hacking other companies without their knowledge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  AI Bubble: ‘We’re coming to the end of this’ | Ed Zitron 31.07.2026 39min

  “It’s never been about what LLMs can actually do. It’s about the perception of AI’s potential.”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 state of circular financing in the AI bubble after Nvidia floated a $250 loan guarantee to build OpenAI a data center and another $350 loan of GPUs to put in it.Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/o5w5z8mj9q  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  AI CEOs are trying to slow down model development | Gary Marcus 30.07.2026 26min

  “I’ not sure this really is going to be paced. I think it’s almost like a cry for help.”Author of 'Marcus on AI' and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about OpenAI and Anthropic backing an international slow down of AI model development, that AI pacing might look like and why AI companies should not be left to regulate themselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The AI Lie: ‘It’s not just misleading it’s dangerous’ | House of El: AI 28.07.2026 46min

  “I’m very exited about this technology… but I’m also deeply critical of how it’s being deployed and I don’t think those two positions are contradictory.”El from House of El joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the pro-AI vs anti-AI debate, some fundamental misunderstandings that deepen the divide and why differentiating types of artificial intelligence is important when criticising AI companies’ business strategies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  SpaceX’s crash gives xAI $0 valuation | Eli the Computer Guy 27.07.2026 23min

  “The debt always comes due.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the continued drop in the valuation of SpaceX and Tesla as Elon Musk struggles to make the business case for his unproven technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  OpenAI’s ads are failing and it can’t survive without them | Ed Zitron 26.07.2026 16min

  “We’re in a situation where the only way of sustaining free large language models isn’t going to work.”Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss OpenAI falling short of its own internal ad targets and how the company cannot survive without them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  AI Bubble: Tech giants are hiding $1.65trn in AI debt | Ed Zitron 24.07.2026 26min

  “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. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Data Centres Canceled: $286bn blocked and delayed by local opposition | Paris Marx 23.07.2026 37min

  “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 more information.
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  Kimi 3: AI bench marks are just marketing | David Gerard 21.07.2026 28min

  “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.
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  Meta’s biggest problem is its CEO | Eli the Computer Guy 20.07.2026 29min

  "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.
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  AI Bubble: Data center equity is getting dumped | Ed Zitron 17.07.2026 33min

  “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 more information.
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  AI Backlash: ‘This is a self-inflicted public relations apocalypse’ | Gil Duran 16.07.2026 27min

  “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.
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  The rising cost of AI is reaching tipping point | David Gerard 15.07.2026 40min

  “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.
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  ‘AI is simply a set of buzzwords’ | Eli the Computer Guy 14.07.2026 28min

  “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 acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  AI Bubble: We’re headed for the first Tech Great Depression | Ed Zitron 13.07.2026 32min

  “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 Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.