The Tech Report

Google is now legally responsible for AI lies | Paris Marx 23.06.2026 30min

“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 22.06.2026 28min

“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 acast.com/privacy for more information.

OpenAI’s leaked financials explained by Ed Zitron 19.06.2026 34min

“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 17.06.2026 36min

“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 information.

OpenAI doesn’t know where the money is in AI | Eli the Computer Guy 15.06.2026 25min

“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 12.06.2026 31min

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

Can Apple make AI less annoying and maybe even useful? | Will Guyatt 01.06.2026 21min

“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.

This OpenAI’s ‘doom scenario’ | Eric Newcomer 23.05.2026 24min

“I’m deeply worried that there’s this effort to rush the indexes… so that all our assets are invested before anyone has really done an independent assessment.”Founder of tech and venture capital media group Newcomer, Eric Newcomer, joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic overtaking OpenAI in enterprise sales and what the ChatGPT company’s “doom scenario” is they head to IPO. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

OpenAI’s IPO is a move of ‘desperation’ | Ed Zitron 22.05.2026 36min

“We’re basically saying the tech industry will double its revenue in four years… that’s an insane poison to hold, that money needs to come from somewhere.”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 OpenAI hasty IPO and the impossible maths behind the AI boom.Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/o5w5z8mj9q 📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.comFor more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI to create more jobs than it eliminates after 2028, study reveals | Natasha Bernal 20.05.2026 34min

“They are risking a huge productivity crisis.”Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about a recent study which says AI will create more jobs than it eliminates from 2028 onwards and how executives who fail to upskill their employees will lack the workforce to fill those new roles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Samsung strike could derail the whole AI boom | Eli the Computer Guy 18.05.2026 23min

“If they force the entire world to take 18 days to really start thinking about the deployment of all this hardware… is that going to be the more dangerous problem for the AI industry.”Eli the Computer Guy joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Samsung employees taking strike action over unfair distribution of the profits of surging memory prices and whether the AI bubble can survive the 18 days pause. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ed Zitron: You are being lied to about the AI data center boom 15.05.2026 32min

“When it breaks, it’s going to be an aggressive, horrifying turn because there are no fundamentals to fall back on here.”Author of Where's Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the brewing scandal as data centres are not getting built at the rate people expect and how intentionally misleading terms are being used to obscure that reality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Musk vs Altman: There were no grownups in the room | Chris Stokel-Walker 14.05.2026 21min

“Neither person in this story is a hero… in terms of a settlement, I think it’s probably too late now.”Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to take a look at the biggest moments so far from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and to talk about how the grown-up facade of some Silicon Valley CEO is slipping. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meta workers revolt over surveillance as layoffs undermine AI profits | Natasha Bernal 13.05.2026 28min

“It’s the first of what I expect be a series of studies on what actually is happening behind all of these AI related layoffs.”Technology journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why Meta employees are protesting over workplace surveillance and how a recent study by Gartner shows cutting headcount as part of AI adoption is undermining return on investment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opposition to data centers will define US midterms | Data Center Watch 12.05.2026 25min

“We are working under the hypothesis that the data centre issue is going to be one of the main issues of the midterms.”Lead Researcher at Data Center Watch Miquel Vila tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound how opposition to data centres has increased with public awareness to the point that it is defining elections already. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI Bubble: Banks are selling AI debt at discount | Ed Zitron 11.05.2026 36min

“Every time you look for the supposed gold mine, you find someone just handing someone money instead of the gold coming out.”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 circular financing propping up the AI bubble and Goldman Sachs’ Tracking Trillions report which describes the AI boom as driven by fear rather than fundamentals.Ed's latest free newsletter: AI's Circular Psychosis: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/o5w5z8mj9q📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.comFor more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Musk vs Altman: ‘This isn’t going the way Elon Musk wanted’ | Will Guyatt 07.05.2026 23min

Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins The Tech Reports Isaac Pound to talk about the most recent drama from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as testimony reveals previously unknown financial conflicts and desires to use the AI company to raise money for cities on Mars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI productivity myth: AI layoffs are destroying productivity | Natasha Bernal 06.05.2026 40min

“They’re losing institutional knowledge, they’re losing skills left, right and centre.”Tech journalist Natasha Bernal join the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the repercussion of AI layoffs and how survivors productivity falls further than AI is increasing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How ‘Pathological’ Silicon Valley fanatics are blocking AI regulation | Timothy Noah 05.05.2026 23min

“As oligarchs go, Tech moguls are much more visibly crazy.”Staff writer for The New Republic and author of The Great Divergence, Timothy Noah, tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that the resistance to regulation within the tech industry has become “pathological” leaving tech moguls looking like Bond villains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

OpenAI’s business model is ‘falling apart’ | Ed Zitron 04.05.2026 45min

“OpenAI need to grow so much more, and any slowing in growth suggests that it’s comical to expect them to reach these targets.”Author of Where's Your Ed At & Host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about what the fallout of OpenAI missing it’s revenue and user targets means for the circular financing of the AI bubble, and Nvidia’s VP of Applied Deep Learning admitted AI costs more than an employee.Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/3o1fvrk88u#/📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.comFor more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.