The Tech Report

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

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.

“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.

“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 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.

“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.If you'd like to find out more about Ypsilanti, Michigan's Stop The Data Centre campaign:Linktree : https://linktr.ee/stopthedataInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stopthedataSubstack: https://substack.com/@stopthedatacenter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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

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

“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.How OpenAI Kills Oracle: https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-openai-kills-oracle/Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/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.

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

"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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

“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.Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/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.

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

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

"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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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.The Hater's Guide to OpenAI: https://www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-openai/Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really-weird/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.

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

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

“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.Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/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.

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

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 questionAnd 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 CoreWEave’s GPU backed debt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

“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.Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/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.

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

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Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Meta considering plans to cut 20% of its workforce as their latest AI model faces delays. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of The Tech Report we’re discussing the limits to revenue growth from software - and what this tells us about AI, the continued fallout from OpenAi’s Pentagon Deal, and Anthropic’s lawsuit against the US government. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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On this episode of The Tech Report we discuss the AI bubble, how cryptocurrency funds North Korea and Iran, and Anthropic's battle with the Pentagon. Tech journalists Chris Stokel-Walker and Natasha Bernal and founder of the Global Cryptocurrency Laundering Report Alexander Browder join our regular presenters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this Episode of The Tech Report we bring you the best of our past three episodes. Our regular hosts speak to author Ed Zitron, military tech expert Kyle Chan, and journalist Natasha Bernal to discuss claims Chinese AI firms are copycats, investment in OpenAI, and plans for robot soldiers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“OpenAI think they’re building something to capture all out futures. When they’re actually building the end of theirs.”Author of Wheres You’re Ed At & Host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about OpenAI struggle to fulfil it’s $100bn funding target and the state of the circular funding behind Nvidia’s quarterly revenue report.Here's $10 off an annual subscription to Ed's newsletter!https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/ya832sc31w📩 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.

On this Episode of The Tech Report we bring you the best of our past three episodes. Host Isaac Pound speaks to Ed Zitron, Dr Ian Cuttress & Professor Steve Keen to discuss AI productivity, the AI chip crisis, and the end of Bitcoin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“We’re reaching this thing where we’re realising that everybody made a huge mistake.”Author of Wheres You’re Ed At and Host of the Better Offline Podcast Ed Zitron tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that the data on productivity growth from AI adoption is flat and AI adopters are entering a “hysterical episode” as they look for pay offs from their investments.Here's $10 off an annual subscription to Ed's newsletter!https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/ya832sc31w📩 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.

“I think that may be the beginning of the end of Bitcoin.”Professor Steve Keen told The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that if nothing else, the energy cost will be the end of bitcoin and the trading of Bitcoin on regulated markets through ETFs was a “mistake.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“These ‘subsidised gadgets’ could that be more of a thing going forward. Yes.”Chief analyst at More Than Moore and YouTuber Dr Ian Cutress tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that consumers are already familiar with purchasing phones or cars on a contract and it is something that could become more common place as data centres continue to “gobble up” chip supply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Today on The Tech Report, Fergus Macphee is joined by Josh Tyrangiel to discuss a long-read piece he has written in The Atlantic. Through speaking with AI execs, company CEOs, union bosses and political figures from opposing sides such as Steve Bannon & Bernie Sanders, Josh's report poses the question of how prepared America is for potential wholesale change to the job market. The answer is uncertain, but regulation is lacking and the consequences could be perilous. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“There will be a wake up call and a reckoning for entire sectors who are adopting AI”There’s been a perhaps deliberate miss translations where people think the increased productivity from the use of AI will give them more spare time rather than make them work harder, says tech journalist Natasha Bernal.📻 Listen to Times Radio - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio🗞 Subscribe to The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/subscribe/radio-3for3/ 📲 Get the free Times Radio app https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/how-to-listen-to-times-radio/app Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Susan Owens is joined by Terence Mauri, the founder the management think tank, Hack Future Lab to discuss the mass exodus at xAI, ethical leadership and Elon Musk's recent plans to develop a self-growing city on the Moon.You can watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/oUiGuyNU2XY📻 Listen to Times Radio - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio🗞 Subscribe to The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/subscribe/radio-3for3/ 📲 Get the free Times Radio app https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/how-to-listen-to-times-radio/app Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.