The Tech Report
Welcome to the Tech Report, where you can keep up to date with everything you need to know from the fast-changing world of technology. Every week we’ll bring you interviews with leading experts, journalists and commentators on everything from the future of AI to tech bro meltdowns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
OpenAI’s leaked financials explained by Ed Zitron
“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.
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Why you shouldn't build a business on AI subscriptions | Natasha Bernal
“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.
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OpenAI doesn’t know where the money is in AI | Eli the Computer Guy
“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.
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AI bubble: ‘It’s approaching vindication hour for me’ | Ed Zitron
“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.
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Can Apple make AI less annoying and maybe even useful? | Will Guyatt
“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.
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This OpenAI’s ‘doom scenario’ | Eric Newcomer
“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.
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OpenAI’s IPO is a move of ‘desperation’ | Ed Zitron
“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.
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AI to create more jobs than it eliminates after 2028, study reveals | Natasha Bernal
“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.
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The Samsung strike could derail the whole AI boom | Eli the Computer Guy
“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.
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Ed Zitron: You are being lied to about the AI data center boom
“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.
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Musk vs Altman: There were no grownups in the room | Chris Stokel-Walker
“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.
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Meta workers revolt over surveillance as layoffs undermine AI profits | Natasha Bernal
“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.
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Opposition to data centers will define US midterms | Data Center Watch
“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.
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AI Bubble: Banks are selling AI debt at discount | Ed Zitron
“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.
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Musk vs Altman: ‘This isn’t going the way Elon Musk wanted’ | Will Guyatt
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.
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AI productivity myth: AI layoffs are destroying productivity | Natasha Bernal
“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.
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How ‘Pathological’ Silicon Valley fanatics are blocking AI regulation | Timothy Noah
“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.
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OpenAI’s business model is ‘falling apart’ | Ed Zitron
“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.
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The AI Rebellion: How rural America is fighting Data Centres | Stop The Data Centre
“If we compare to even factory work in this area, that have held jobs… the world of the data centre is actually infinitely worse along every metric.”
Campaign organisers at Ypsilanti Michigan’s Stop The Data Centre campaign Stephanie Beth Jordan and Elizabeth Stewart, join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how local opposition to data centres, in town’s like Ypsilanti, is shaping national conversation and the lack of understanding of data centres that is fuelling the myth that data centres create jobs for local communities.
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Palantir workers are start to ask ‘are we the bad guys’ | Natasha Bernal
“They’ve planted the flag in the sand. If people weren’t paying attention before, it’s certainly very clear from them now.”
Tech Journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Palantir and its CEO Alex Karp after leaked messaged from employees revealed a crisis of faith within the company over its unpopular ideology.
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Musk vs Altman: A ‘messy’ feud that could reshape AI | Chris Stokel-Walker
“They are two messy people, and so they are making the lawsuit as messy as possible.”
Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman could reshape the AI industry as SpaceX and OpenAI plan to go public.
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ChatGPT 5.5: ‘This is just a software update’ | Meredith Broussard
“Let’s be honest, this is a software update.”
Author of More Than A Glitch and NYU data journalism professor Meredith Broussard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to unpick the marketing surrounding OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5 and how AI developers use selective and limited benchmarking to “rig” their numbers.
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How OpenAI ends and takes Oracle with it | Ed Zitron
“At this point, I don’t know what saves Oracle from the void.”
Author of Where's Your Ed At & Host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the Anthropic beating OpenAI to hit $1trn valuation on secondary markets, the most resilient AI developer Microsoft shifting to charging token rates and how Oracle’s Stargate is a threat to the companies existence.
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Why Apple gave up on building its own AI | Snazzy Labs’ Quinn Nelson
“There is no mistaking that Apple is behind [on AI]… but Apple is profitable.”
Snazzy Labs host Quinn Nelson joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Apple’s new CEO Jon Ternus and what is appointment means for the company’s future AI plans following its lacklustre performance in model development.
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Support for data centres plummets in industry ‘capital’ | Elena Schlossberg
"The data centre industry, it’s like a plague.”
Executive director of The Coalition To Protect Prince William County Elena Schlossberg tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the fight against the Prince William Gateway, a 5GW data centre, and how local support for data centres in the industry’s capital, Virgina, has halved in three years.
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The Cybertruck is an ‘unmitigated disaster’ | Will Guyatt
“Without SpaceX buying Cybertrucks, nobody else would be buying them.”
Tech journalist Will Guyatt tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that Cybertrucks are an “unmitigated disaster” as Elon Musk is using SpaceX to increase sales numbers.
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‘The AI industry is ignoring how much people hate it’ | Ed Zitron
“The AI industry is ignoring how much people hate it.”
Author of Where's Your Ed At & host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the attack on Sam Altman and the “dangerous rhetoric” surrounding the AI boom.
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The AI arms race is a lobbying myth | Bruce Schneier
“If a pharmaceutical company decided to market a drug that kills people and then say ‘well, it kills less than 100 people, so we’re not liable,’ we’d look at them and say ‘you’re freaking crazy.’”
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.
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Workers are sabotaging AI and poisoning company data | Natasha Bernal
Tech journalist Natasha Bernal talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the movement of workers sabotaging their employers AI rollouts, Tesla’s stock price continuing to plummet and how the rhetoric around AI has turned violent with the attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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Why 80% of workers are rejecting ai mandates | Nick Lichtenberg
“If workers felt like someone was trying to actually listen to them a their issues with AI… then the anger could come down a bit.”
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.
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Data centres cancelled: ‘Every data centre has local opposition’ | Karen Feraden
"I think they'd rather bail, honestly, than try to move forward with these projects."
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.
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‘Sam Altman is an historic con artist’ | Ed Zitron
“This is the largest con inside the LLM market”
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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Claude Mythos is mostly ‘marketing hype’ | Bruce Schneier
“They’re convincing a lot of people that Mythos is this amazing step change in capability when the evidence right now… is that it might not be.”
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.
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AI’s biggest weakness exposed by the Iran war
“Data centre can very much be legitimate military targets.”
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.
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‘Half of data centres aren’t getting built’ | Ed Zitron
“Hyperscalers have gone from the asset light cash machines to asset heavy behemoths.”
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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The AI market is wrong about Google’s TurboQuant | Boris Gamazaychikov
“I don’t think this is a magic solution to change the paradigm of how we use AI or the hardware.”
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.
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Is Big Tech losing it's influence
Tech Journalist Natasha Bernal talks about the influence of big tech companies and does it outweigh their accountability?
Will Guyatt tells us that there might be an end to the RAM crisis as OpenAI’s spending cuts throw their DRAM orders with Samsung and Sk Hynix into question
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Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks about how the AI build out is not as big as it seems. Also Nvidia’s GPUs are not being used could this cause trouble for CoreW...
Big Tech is headed for a reckoning | Natasha Bernal
“I think we are approaching a reckoning.”
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.
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The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron
“Hyperscalers have gone from the asset light cash machines to asset heavy behemoths.”
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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AI bubble won’t survive the war in Iran much longer | Tej Parikh
“If this is still going on for another month or so then we’re in a real problem territory.”
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.
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