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Nov 13, 2026 · 23:49
“There is no AI bubble without Jensen Huang.” 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 how…
Nov 13, 2026 · 21:28
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 how Jensen Huang might have accidentally just…
Nov 11, 2026 · 31:22
“Nvidia has no one who can step in and just keep things running.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the fallout from…
Nov 11, 2026 · 25:33
“Generative models are never going to be able to handle facts in a certain way.” CEO of OneStream Thomas Shea joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how generative AI…
Nov 6, 2026 · 43:44
“The assumption was these things would grow forever… and I think the big story here is we’ve hit the ceiling.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast…
Nov 4, 2026 · 22:06
“A bad night for anyone who wants to develop a data center. And a horrible night for anyone who wants to develop a data center in Texas.” Financial Times US Energy Reporter…
Nov 3, 2026 · 42:16
“We’re only going to see more burnout as employers either adopt more AI tools or they just keep pushing employees for more so they can hit targets.” Author of book and newsletter…
Nov 2, 2026 · 31:55
“To call this horrifying just doesn’t do it justice.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic getting hacked and the future of AI agents…
Oct 31, 2026 · 26:04
“I’m going to take money from my left pocket, put it in the right pocket and get very rich that way. That doesn’t work.” Senior Distinguished Fellow for the Center for Economic…
Oct 30, 2026 · 39:07
“I don’t know what anthropic does now because you’re going to the junk bond market that’s already strained.” Writer of Where’s You Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed…
Oct 27, 2026 · 35:16
“If there’s a real threat from AI on the existential scale, it’s from the emissions.” Tech journalist and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to…
Oct 27, 2026 · 32:12
“Vibe code will be a security disaster and we’re just building and bigger and bigger pile of technical debt.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s…
Oct 23, 2026 · 33:15
“It really is a question of just when the market loses faith. It’s a religious cult on some level, but with stocks.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better…
Oct 22, 2026 · 33:53
“This is the worst possible scenario… because it means that Nvidia does not have crazy demand for GPUs” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast Ed…
Oct 22, 2026 · 27:52
“It’s impossible to see what they envision happening… there’s literally nothing on the horizon.” Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean…
Oct 19, 2026 · 32:34
“The problems they are running into, to call them rank amateur is to insult amateurs.” Eli the Computer Guy join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the incompetence…
Oct 16, 2026 · 47:07
“The usual ability of the AI industry has to put the toothpaste back in the tube is not working anymore.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast…
Oct 15, 2026 · 34:22
“The business model is to make a bubble.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the US Court of Appeals rejecting an AI…
Oct 14, 2026 · 34:28
AI researcher and safety expert Connor Leahy joins Will Guyatt on The Tech Report to talk about the risk of lettings AI companies self regulate and how AI labs are more focused…
Oct 12, 2026 · 31:16
Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the future of the software industry after AI-assisted decompiling shook the industry with how quickly it could…
Oct 9, 2026 · 44:49
“It’s kind of like a student loan where your mum or your dad co-signs, except your mum is Sundar Pichai.” The Tech Report's Will Guyatt talks with Ed Zitron about his latest…
Oct 9, 2026 · 30:12
"If Apple comes out with AI AirPods, you might call the police." Eli the Computer Guy joins the Tech Report's Will Guyatt to discuss the White House rebranding of AI as…
Oct 8, 2026 · 31:04
Following Sam Altman’s suggestion that the world should accept “some bad things” in exchange for AI, The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt joins Pivot to AI’s David Gerard to discuss…
Oct 6, 2026 · 30:29
Will Guyatt from The Tech Report talks to David Gerard from Pivot-to-AI about Oracle referring to a gas-pipeline delay at a mega data centre as an act of God, and why the…
Oct 6, 2026 · 28:53
“Rogue AI agent is going to become the word of 2026.” Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt about a new MIT Technology Review article which says almost…
Sep 25, 2026 · 48:28
“I estimate $200bn to $300bn worth of GPUs are either in warehouses or sitting in unpowered data centres.” Writers of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed…
Sep 24, 2026 · 35:04
“The threat of AI is there to force down wages and essentially force down the leverage of workers.” Host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and author of Hyperscalers Paris Marx…
Sep 23, 2026 · 30:05
“They need trillions of dollars in revenue. Who’s going to pay it?” Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker joins The Tech Report’s…
Sep 21, 2026 · 38:51
“Nobody cared about the model.” Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the tech underpinning the AI hype and how the industry is moving away from…
Sep 18, 2026 · 22:19
“They’re talking about super intelligence and AI that trains itself so you take your eye off of what’s happening today.” Writers of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better…
Sep 17, 2026 · 26:52
“Half of Nvidia’s revenue could literally be sitting in warehouses.” Writers of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac…
Sep 14, 2026 · 34:21
“If you drag Dario Amodei and Sam Altman in front of a grand jury I think we’ll solve a lot of these problems incredibly quickly.” Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s…
Sep 11, 2026 · 44:02
“The vast majority, including the richest of investors do not know what they’re investing in. They have no idea.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline…
Sep 10, 2026 · 56:52
“If enshitificaiton is what you do when you’ve grown your market all you can and then you squeeze it, then AI is what happens when you run out of squeezing.” Author of The…
Sep 8, 2026 · 31:00
“There is this sort of laundering that’s happening around recommendations that ChatGPT and the chatbots are doing.” Author of Regular Benchmarks and Co-Founder of Boys Club Deana…
Sep 7, 2026 · 28:12
“The excitement around AI is dying at the same time they need more investment.” Eli the Computer Guy join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the value proposition of…
Sep 7, 2026 · 32:19
“1% of customers hold up everything else.” 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…
Sep 3, 2026 · 31:13
“The use case for AI is work that should not have been done.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why people don’t want…
Sep 2, 2026 · 31:33
“The opposition to AI data centers is only going to grow.” Tech journalist Jowi Morales joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of the AI build out after Sam…
Aug 31, 2026 · 27:56
“Sam Altman has backed himself into a corner.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how specialised AI is looking to replace generalist models…
Aug 28, 2026 · 46:53
“Each quarters success is content on whether Nvidia’s various fin-dom victims will be able to raise debt.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed…
Aug 27, 2026 · 42:52
“Until it’s clear how AI development can be centred on what workers and the consumers want, there’s no reason to expect the public not to hate AI.” Co-host of This Machine Kills…
Aug 25, 2026 · 29:56
“There is no issue that unites the public like hatred of data centers, Big Tech, and the AI companies.” Author of the book and newsletter Blood in The Machine Brian Merchant…
Aug 24, 2026 · 25:31
“It may not be feasible of them to say that they’re wrong.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the uncertain future of frontier AI model…
Aug 21, 2026 · 31:41
Journalist and AI Advisor Alex Hudson from the Crashed podcast joins The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt to look into Open AI’s slowing down of AI development to overhaul safety…
Aug 16, 2026 · 40:08
“Nothing is where it needs to be. Absolutely nothing. Nvidia’s $200bn in revenue, that’s chump change compared to where they need to be in a year.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At…
Aug 12, 2026 · 32:54
“Why should people read something you couldn’t be bothered to write?” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about dead internet…
Aug 10, 2026 · 26:19
“This is a great example of what AI should be used for… as long as the systems are designed properly.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the…
Aug 7, 2026 · 47:12
“If 70% of AI revenues are these two companies, there is no AI industry.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech…
Aug 6, 2026 · 24:59
“People don’t want Tech coming into their neighbourhood without permission, or arrogantly.” 404 Media’s Joseph Cox joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the…
Aug 5, 2026 · 33:52
“I think we’re in this moment where those promises are starting to kind of erode.” Tech journalist and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk…
Aug 3, 2026 · 27:56
“They committed felonies and the government isn’t doing anything.” Eli the Computer Guy joints The Tech Report’s Isaac pound to talk about the negligence of AI companies after…
Jul 31, 2026 · 39:29
“It’s never been about what LLMs can actually do. It’s about the perception of AI’s potential.” Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron…
Jul 30, 2026 · 26:41
“I’ not sure this really is going to be paced. I think it’s almost like a cry for help.” Author of 'Marcus on AI' and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU…
Jul 28, 2026 · 46:40
“I’m very exited about this technology… but I’m also deeply critical of how it’s being deployed and I don’t think those two positions are contradictory.” El from House of El…
Jul 27, 2026 · 23:10
“The debt always comes due.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the continued drop in the valuation of SpaceX and Tesla as Elon Musk struggles…
Jul 26, 2026 · 16:45
“We’re in a situation where the only way of sustaining free large language models isn’t going to work.” Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed…
Jul 24, 2026 · 26:37
“People are dreaming so they don’t have to face the nightmare of reality.” Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s…
Jul 23, 2026 · 37:22
“People do have the power to shut data centers down and to disrupt the narrative of inevitability the tech industry relies on.” Author of Hyperscalers and host of Tech Won’t Save…
Jul 21, 2026 · 28:24
“Absolutely everyone tunes their models to all the benchmarks.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the value of AI…
Jul 20, 2026 · 29:37
"The bigger problem with meta is just Mark Zuckerberg has just been a disaster for the past number of years." Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report's Isaac Pound to talk…
Jul 17, 2026 · 33:16
“The people that got harmed the most are those who trusted Sam Altman the most.” Writer of Where Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech…
Jul 16, 2026 · 27:51
“The AI companies have done us great favour of making this an immediate, visceral, visual threat.” Journalist and Author of Nerd Reich Gil Duran joins The Tech Report’s Isaac…
Jul 15, 2026 · 40:12
“I think we’re getting there… AI doesn’t work very well and it’s sort of selling itself on the future promises.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech…
Jul 14, 2026 · 28:10
“People fundamentally don’t understand what the real value this technology is supposed to bring.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the…
Jul 13, 2026 · 32:18
“I think we’re on the path to the first real tech Great Depression.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offlines podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s…
Jul 9, 2026 · 34:48
“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…
Jul 8, 2026 · 32:14
“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…
Jul 6, 2026 · 25:45
“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…
Jul 6, 2026 · 39:17
“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…
Jul 2, 2026 · 39:21
“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…
Jul 2, 2026 · 23:37
“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…
Jun 29, 2026 · 24:43
“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…
Jun 26, 2026 · 40:41
“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…
Jun 24, 2026 · 36:32
“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…
Jun 23, 2026 · 30:51
“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…
Jun 22, 2026 · 28:33
“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…
Jun 19, 2026 · 34:36
“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…
Jun 17, 2026 · 36:11
“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…
Jun 15, 2026 · 25:14
“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…
Jun 12, 2026 · 31:54
“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…
Jun 1, 2026 · 21:58
“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…
May 23, 2026 · 24:18
“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…
May 22, 2026 · 36:12
“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…
May 20, 2026 · 34:27
“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…
May 18, 2026 · 23:34
“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…
May 15, 2026 · 32:53
“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…
May 14, 2026 · 21:49
“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…
May 13, 2026 · 28:26
“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…
May 12, 2026 · 25:03
“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…
May 11, 2026 · 36:34
“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…
May 7, 2026 · 23:02
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…
May 6, 2026 · 40:55
“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…
May 5, 2026 · 23:33
“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…
May 4, 2026 · 45:54
“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…
May 1, 2026 · 55:18
“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…
Apr 30, 2026 · 41:38
“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…
Apr 29, 2026 · 23:25
“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…
Apr 28, 2026 · 22:44
“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…
Apr 27, 2026 · 40:19
“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…
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