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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.
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Episodes
The Cybertruck is an ‘unmitigated disaster’ | Will Guyatt 21.04.2026 20:57
“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’ | Ed Zitron 20.04.2026 34:00
“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...
The AI arms race is a lobbying myth | Bruce Schneier 17.04.2026 21:36
“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...
Workers are sabotaging AI and poisoning company data | Natasha Bernal 16.04.2026 34:54
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.
Why 80% of workers are rejecting ai mandates | Nick Lichtenberg 14.04.2026 21:42
“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...
Data centres cancelled: ‘Every data centre has local opposition’ | Karen Feraden 14.04.2026 21:16
"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.
‘Sam Altman is an historic con artist’ | Ed Zitron 10.04.2026 30:32
“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...
Claude Mythos is mostly ‘marketing hype’ | Bruce Schneier 10.04.2026 23:23
“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...
AI’s biggest weakness exposed by the Iran war 08.04.2026 23:42
“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.
‘Half of data centres aren’t getting built’ | Ed Zitron 03.04.2026 23:29
“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...
The AI market is wrong about Google’s TurboQuant | Boris Gamazaychikov 02.04.2026 16:40
“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.
Is Big Tech losing it's influence 02.04.2026 38:49
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...
Big Tech is headed for a reckoning | Natasha Bernal 01.04.2026 29:20
“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.
The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron 30.03.2026 32:38
“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...
AI bubble won’t survive the war in Iran much longer | Tej Parikh 24.03.2026 22:29
“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.
AI Bubble: Nobody will pay for unsubsidised AI | Ed Zitron 20.03.2026 32:31
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AI has made a recession unavoidable | Professor Steve Keen 19.03.2026 28:37
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Is the financial aspect of AI becoming too demanding? Also is Meta facing layoffs? 19.03.2026 29:57
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.
The end of 'unlimited' tech industry growth? 17.03.2026 41:51
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.
What the ChatGPT user exodus means for the future of AI 16.03.2026 21:04
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AI hype is ‘grifting’ the SaaS industry | Ed Zitron 16.03.2026 34:16
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Will the AI boom stop? 10.03.2026 38:14
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.
The Tech Report - Recap 03.03.2026 41:33
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 is one failed funding round from bankruptcy | Ed Zitron 27.02.2026 33:46
“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 ann...
The Tech Report - Recap 24.02.2026 39:08
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.
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