The Tech Report

“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...

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...

“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 nationa...

“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 info...

“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....

“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 informat...