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EPISODE · Jul 26, 2026 · 16 MIN

OpenAI’s ads are failing and it can’t survive without them | Ed Zitron

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“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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