The Tech Report

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...

“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://ed...

“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 bi...

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 i...

"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.wher...

“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...

“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: ht...

“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 question And  Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks about how the AI bui...

“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: ht...