The Tech Report

“Why are chatbots doubling down on these ideas when the user is very clearly saying ‘I am in distress’ or ‘I am confused, can you help me?’” Senior staff writer at Futurism Maggie Harrison Dupré joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how where AI delusions and AI psychosis come from, how chatbots have been found to co-create delusions and the role tech companies have played by marketing...

“It’s the surviving companies that will rehire, the others will have killed themselves with AI.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the growing trend of companies rehiring for roles previously cut under the belief AI could replace jobs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“The argument for building more of these AI data centers is getting worse by the day.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss OpenAI’s reported inference halving breakthrough and how the astronomical spending by the AI industry has created a vulnerability to innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“It’s yet another one of those instances where you wonder why people haven’t seen this coming.” Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about some concerning cases of AI psychosis in the workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“It’s yet another one of those instances where you wonder why people haven’t seen this coming.” Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about some concerning cases of AI psychosis in the workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“As a tech company, you’re not going to be able to buy the supply to built your data center.” Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about what ChatGPT 5.6’s restricted launch means for the way America will regulated AI and how the memory crisis is unsustainable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“We are building data centres as if we understand what we’re doing, when I really don’t think we do.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to unpick Nvidia’s new closed loop water-cooling technology that promises to ‘eliminate’ water consumption of data centres and how the speed of the AI built out risks wasting money on obsolete infrastructure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

 “So we’re sitting on this series of time bombs and the fact the people with the money haven’t been asking the questions is genuinely dangerous.” Author of Where Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about OpenAI delaying their IPO and the multi-trillion dollar tech stock sell off that has followed a souring in public an invest...

“It’s kind of a damming indictment for the use of these tools… that the people using them most are kind of like ‘eh’.” Tech journalists Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why public opinion of AI is souring while usage rates are going up and what the growing backlash against the technology means for the business models of frontier AI labs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

“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.

“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 ac...

“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.

“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 in...

“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.

“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....

“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.

“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. H...

“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://edzitron...

“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.

“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 th...

“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. Hoste...

“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 informati...

“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...

“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...