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August 6 · 24 min
AI surveillance is already being abused | Joseph Cox 404 Media
“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 controversies surrounding automatic license plate recognition cameras as the backlash against Flock grows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 5 · 33 min
Office workers don’t want to use AI anymore | Paris Marx
“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 about AI in the workplace after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns one of the biggest risks of AI is ‘cognitive atrophy’ and a study by Adaptavist reveals two thirds of office workers want to go back to working without AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 3 · 27 min
Rogue AI agents aren’t the real problem | Eli the Computer Guy
“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 OpenAI and Anthropic admit their agents were hacking other companies without their knowledge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 31 · 39 min
AI Bubble: ‘We’re coming to the end of this’ | Ed Zitron
“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 joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of circular financing in the AI bubble after Nvidia floated a $250 loan guarantee to build OpenAI a data center and another $350 loan of GPUs to put in it. Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/o5w5z8mj9q Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 30 · 26 min
AI CEOs are trying to slow down model development | Gary Marcus
“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 joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about OpenAI and Anthropic backing an international slow down of AI model development, that AI pacing might look like and why AI companies should not be left to regulate themselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 28 · 46 min
The AI Lie: ‘It’s not just misleading it’s dangerous’ | House of El: AI
“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 joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the pro-AI vs anti-AI debate, some fundamental misunderstandings that deepen the divide and why differentiating types of artificial intelligence is important when criticising AI companies’ business strategies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 27 · 23 min
SpaceX’s crash gives xAI $0 valuation | Eli the Computer Guy
“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 to make the business case for his unproven technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 26 · 16 min
OpenAI’s ads are failing and it can’t survive without them | Ed Zitron
“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 Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss OpenAI falling short of its own internal ad targets and how the company cannot survive without them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 24 · 26 min
AI Bubble: Tech giants are hiding $1.65trn in AI debt | Ed Zitron
“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 Isaac Pound to talk about the $1.65trn of AI debt being kept off the books of the hyperscalers and how the same big tech companies have already protected themselves from the worst of the AI bubble popping. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 23 · 37 min
Data Centres Canceled: $286bn blocked and delayed by local opposition | Paris Marx
“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 Us Paris Marx join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how the public is turning on the AI industry and has so fare blocked or delayed $286bn of data center development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 21 · 28 min
Kimi 3: AI bench marks are just marketing | David Gerard
“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 benchmarking following the reaction to Kimi 3, Chinese company Moonshot’s newest open weight LLM that created a shock to US tech stocks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 20 · 29 min
Meta’s biggest problem is its CEO | Eli the Computer Guy
"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 about the dangers of using AI for business decisions after Meta allegedly disproportionally cut staff who took time off because AI flagged them as underperforming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 17 · 33 min
AI Bubble: Data center equity is getting dumped | Ed Zitron
“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 Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Oracle’s credit rating being downgraded to one level above junk and majority stakes in data center companies being offered to private equity firms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 16 · 27 min
AI Backlash: ‘This is a self-inflicted public relations apocalypse’ | Gil Duran
“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 Pound to talk about why the American public supports public ownership of AI companies and what it would look like if it happens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 15 · 40 min
The rising cost of AI is reaching tipping point | David Gerard
“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 Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the fundamental problem with the AI development business model, selling it at a price people can and will pay for. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 14 · 28 min
‘AI is simply a set of buzzwords’ | Eli the Computer Guy
“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 disillusionment surrounding SpaceX’s stock price despite an optimistic Wall Street as well what the rise and fall tells us about the mood in the AI and tech industry as it braces for further volatility. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 13 · 32 min
AI Bubble: We’re headed for the first Tech Great Depression | Ed Zitron
“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 Isaac Pound to discuss recent analysis showing the together the five largest US hyperscalers have become net cash borrowers in an attempt to fund the buildout of AI, a technology which has never been profitable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 9 · 34 min
Are Chatbots Driving Us mad? | Maggie Harrison Dupré
“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 their products irresponsibly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
July 8 · 32 min
AI adopters are already rehiring cut staff | David Gerard
“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.
July 6 · 25 min
AI Bubble: ‘Frontier models have run their course’ | Eli the Computer Guy
“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.

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