Ed Zitron
Host of Better Offline podcast, tech industry critic and author
Host of Better Offline podcast, tech industry critic and author
Every podcast episode featuring Ed Zitron that Attunex has found: 510 interviews and appearances across 102 shows between 2017 and 2026. Most often on Better Offline (279), The Tech Report (32) and Kill The Computer (18). Often in conversation with Steven Bartlett and Chris Hayes. Follow Ed in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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“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 newsletter article…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the brittle state of Australian AI data center company Firmus’ IPO, its dodgy underlying numbers, and how the Australian media has set…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the brittle state of Australian AI data center company Firmus’ IPO, its dodgy underlying numbers, and how the Australian media has set…
Today, Ed Zitron, renowned AI critic and writer of Where's Your Ed At, returns to Mostly Economics with Dean Baker to follow the money trail of today’s AI ‘revolution.’ They dig into Amazon's strange…
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s “cycular” financing, Trump’s “superintelligence” accord, the growing bubble in the gaming industry, and the…
An AI company can sign a contract for compute years into the future. Someone still has to borrow the money to build the data center, buy the chips, and get the power connected. The price of money…
October 6, 2026; MS NOW’s Ari Melber reports on President Trump’s declining support as the midterms approach. The New York Times’ Molly Jong-Fast and former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee join. Plus,…
This panel is the AI skeptics' version of the '92 Dream Team: Ed Zitron, Gary Marcus, Julien Garran and Nobody Special, all on one stage. This is what you'll hear: * We run the math on how much of…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about Anthropic’s $413 billion in non-cancellable compute commitments, and how its future depends on the impossible task of borrowing $50…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about Anthropic’s $413 billion in non-cancellable compute commitments, and how its future depends on the impossible task of borrowing $50…
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In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse business than OpenAI.Dead…
In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse business than OpenAI.…
GPU 售出不等于算力真正上线，更不等于投资能够回本。Ed Zitron 在《Dead Money》中沿着芯片采购、数据中心建设、供电接入、算力租赁与客户付款的链条，审视 AI 基础设施繁荣背后的真实现金流。 本期节目深度解析这场由融资、债务与高额资本开支推动的扩张：当机房尚未通电、长期租约利润微薄、需求又集中于少数模型公司时，AI 的账面增长能否最终转化为可持续收入？ 原文链接：…
A GPU can be sold, financed, and counted as AI growth before it ever runs a customer’s workload. How much of this boom survives the trip from purchase order to paid invoice? Sold chips, usable…
“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 Zitron joins The…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how $200bn to $300bn of AI GPUs are sitting in warehouses, how hyperscalers like Microsoft are overstating their AI capacity, and why…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how $200bn to $300bn of AI GPUs are sitting in warehouses, how hyperscalers like Microsoft are overstating their AI capacity, and why…
Ed Zitron, Roman Yampolskiy, Nate Soares y Andrew McAfee debaten sobre los riesgos de la IA. Este debate reúne a cuatro voces clave en la vanguardia de la revolución de la inteligencia artificial:Ed…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about how AI is distorting the bond markets to the point that it’s changing the price on US Treasuries, how AI…
英伟达创纪录的AI芯片销售，究竟代表真实需求，还是科技巨头对未来的一场豪赌？本期深度解析 Ed Zitron 的调查文章，透过微软、Google、Oracle 等公司的资本开支、在建工程与折旧数据，追问那些已经售出的GPU究竟在哪里。…
A gigawatt sounds concrete. So does a GPU sale. Yet neither phrase tells us whether a customer can use that compute today, or whether it is sitting behind an unfinished building, a missing power…
Enjoy species dominance while you still can meat-sacks! AI is coming for us all! 00:00 - Cold open 00:28 - Intro 01:44 - Today on the show 03:40 - Dipshit billionaires and a boy named Jacob 25:19 -…
A former Anthropic employee claimed AI would lead to the end of humanity, and soon. In the weeks since, the “whistleblower” has done a full press tour, with even Anthropic and OpenAI themselves…
A former Anthropic employee claimed AI would lead to the end of humanity, and soon. In the weeks since, the “whistleblower” has done a full press tour, with even Anthropic and OpenAI themselves…
“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 Offline podcast Ed Zitron…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron delivers a simple message: if Dario Amodei truly believes that Anthropic is building dangerous AI, he should stop any and all cybersecurity model…
The AI apocalypse is here, but it’s not what you think. Last week, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned online that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by…
“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 Pound to talk about…
Ed Zitron, Roman Yampolskiy, Nate Soares and Andrew McAfee discuss the risk of AI. This debate brings together four distinct voices at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution: Ed…
Ed Elson is joined by Ed Zitron to give his take on the AI safety debate and explain why this story has attracted so much attention. Then, Mark Zandi returns to break down what’s driving treasury…
Ed Zitron is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport and journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI is driven…
A model gets pointed at a cybersecurity benchmark, finds a path through somebody else’s infrastructure, and suddenly the story becomes “the AI escaped.” That phrase can obscure the most important…
Sign up for The Real Eisman Playbook Premium at https://realeismanplaybook.substack.com/ On this episode of The Weekly Wrap, Steve Eisman breaks down the ten-year yield breaching 4.9%, the recent AI…
“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 podcast Ed Zitron…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through the nonsensical, pro-AI lab scare campaign driven by former researcher Jacob Coxon, how the media keeps falling for AI safety grifts,…
This week, we discuss the VS Code documentary, Ed Zitron's rise to fame, and a 10% AI extinction forecast. Plus, the NFL's Australia travel gamble Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 589…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how society continues to manage rather than deal with crises, and how the AI bubble is yet another crisis resulting from a failure to deal…
“AGI has arrived” makes a great headline. A trillion dollars of compute commitments makes a much harder spreadsheet. The question hanging over this boom is simple: who ultimately pays for all this…
“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 instability of the AI…
Ed Zitron just told Steven Bartlett that generative AI is "a con" — and he's got the numbers to back it up. Fifty-five billion in real industry revenue against four hundred billion in capex spend…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 80% of Anthropic and OpenAI’s enterprise revenues come from the top 1% of its customers, and how the entire AI bubble is a series…
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Ed Zitron Was Right: The Bullshit Apocalypse | Topic: How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? | Burr solo: Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee · 29m Who you listen to is who you become. Get…
Ed Zitron Was Right: The Bullshit Apocalypse | Topic: How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? | Kessler solo: Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee · 29m Who you listen to is who you become.…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Caleb Wilson of Kill The Computer to talk about an academic paper on AI slop, and the many reasons why LLMS can never…
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 2, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Claude Fable 5.1…
Hacker Newsroom for 02 September recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through claude fable 5.1, play store donations, fastpotify, save firefox. Chapters 00:00:00 — Intro 00:00:16 — Claude Fable…
前沿模型日:Anthropic 发布 Claude Fable 5.1 与 Mythos 5.1,缓存读取价格直降 75%;OpenAI 则宣布即将推出的 Astra 是首个越过其 Preparedness Framework「Critical 网络安全」门槛的模型。发布之外,今天真正的主线是成本与证据 —— 一篇推理经济学的帕累托前沿导览、一次对 AI 泡沫论者预测记录的严苛复盘,以及…
Frontier-model day: Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 with a 75% cache-read price cut, while OpenAI declared its upcoming Astra the first model to cross the Critical cybersecurity…
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Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred fifty. And boy, do we got a packed one today. I mean, we got AI models that sound like they belong in a fantasy novel, we…
Ed Zitron has become one of the loudest and most widely cited skeptics of the AI boom. But how well have his actual predictions held up? This piece goes back through his claims about “peak AI,”…
Hacker News Daily | Today’s Top Stories: Frontier AI, Privacy at Scale, and the Open Web September 2, 2026 — Five of the most discussed stories currently leading Hacker News, plus the community…
2026年9月1日のHacker News話題まとめ。AnthropicのClaude Fable 5.1とMythos 5.1が首位、AnkiDroidの寄付リンクをめぐるGoogle Playの問題、動作の軽いSpotifyクライアントFastpotifyが続きました。Terence Taoの数学解説動画やAurora Storeのブロック、AI関連の各記事も取り上げます。…
A trillion-dollar technology buildout can look inevitable long before its economics are settled. That gap between the story and the underlying evidence is where this episode lives. Hypernormalization…
Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for September 2, 2026. Featuring: Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982, Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, The Emergent…
www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer for the full episode Daejon Love is alleged by the FBI to have defrauded 26+ women of ~1.3 million dollars predominantly by pretending to be a wide receiver for the…
Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another episode of What Are Your…
AI Daily for 02 September recaps 5 major AI Hacker News stories, moving through claude fable 5.1, ed zitron predictions, codex libreoffice bundle, dwarf fortress ai. Chapters 00:00:00 — Intro…
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Why the biggest bear, Ed Zitron, belives AI is a con.
This week, an AI bull, an AI bear and the Fed chair described the same market. Dylan Patel argued that each dollar of infrastructure owner cost may support several dollars of frontier-lab revenue,…
Markets started the morning pulling back, with oil spiking after US strikes on Iran's Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, drawing a retaliation of course by Iran. 10YR pushing toward a YTD high as…
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Ed Zitron’s critique of AI tech and the AI market boom or bubble has gone mainstream, with the media coverage he’s now getting, including The Diary Of A CEO…
“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 Zitron joins The Tech…
On episode 257 of The Compound and Friends, Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick are joined Ed…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the AI bubble has increasingly become Jensen Huang and NVIDIA feeding different companies money, and how NVIDIA’s revenue is mostly…
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Tech critic Ed Zitron exposes the AI bubble, why OpenAI and Anthropic are burning billions, the fake AI boom, and why the crash could wipe out the ENTIRE economy! Ed Zitron is a British AI critic and…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as AI,…
There’s a lot to unpack about the economic effects of artificial intelligence. It’s clear that artificial intelligence is having a moment (to say the least) and that it has a profound impact on…
This is how a god dies, not with a cosmic explosion, not with a descent into eternity, but with the face of a pissed off Englishman calling it a big pile of bollocks. If five years ago you had asked…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how Anthropic and OpenAI’s revenue growth is decelerating, and how OpenAI’s pause on model development and collapsing economics create…
Aug 20, 2026; 6pm; MAGA allies are making huge bets on AI amid new signs that a tech “bubble” could rattle the economy. MS NOW’s Ari Melber reports and is joined by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes…
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about the increasingly-delusional promises of the AI semiconductors industry, the rotten economics of LLMs, and how…
Ed Zitron returns to The 1600 to make his case that AI's biggest players are betting hundreds of billions on a future that may never arrive. From OpenAI and Anthropic's finances to the rapid buildout…
Ed Zitron is right about AI’s ugly economics. He’s also wrong about several specific predictions, and in this video I go through the record. I used to agree with Zitron about most of AI. The labs…
People hating my Ed Zitron video gave me the highest-performing upload of my last 10. One in 10 viewers commented. That does not happen on YouTube. This is not ragebait. I asked Zitron for comment…
“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 and host of the Better…
There are fresh signs that the AI bubble is wobbling. Again. In recent weeks, a much-vaunted AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, run by Valley wunderkind Leopold Aschenbrenner lost $35…
In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by comedian Chloe Radcliffe and critic Ed Ongweso Jr. to talk about AI’s attempts to interfere with the creative arts, horrible little robots, Mark…
AI models are escaping their sandboxes, some of the biggest names in AI are heading for the exits, OpenAI can't stop burning cash, and one of the industry’s biggest AGI bulls just got a brutal lesson…
Nvidia’s $500 billion deal with top Wall Street firms has sparked a debate about circular spending in the AI ecosystem. Ed Zitron is a critic of the investments pouring into the industry, and he…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through NVIDIA’s entirely-theoretical $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership with various asset managers, all to keep up with analyst…
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SUMMARY: In this episode, Aaron and Brandon tackle the provocative critiques of AI by Ed Zitron, a vocal opponent in the tech industry. They delve into the bear case against AI, exploring both the…
“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 Report’s Isaac Pound to talk…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI, with 7% of Microsoft’s FY26 revenue coming from…
The AI boom might just be money moving in a circle. Jackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma, and Brian Cubellis put four stories on the shot clock. They break down Ed Zitron's circular-revenue thesis (an…
In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the recent slew of tech earnings, how analyst estimates show that 70% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s AI…
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to Ed Zitron on The Tech Report, discussing the state of huge circular financing within the AI bubble, after Nvidia offered a massive $250 loan guarantee to build OpenAI yet…
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to some a a recent conversation between Investors George Noble, Julien Garran, “Nobody Special”, and independent journalist Ed Zitron, about how the wheels may be starting…
The people, companies and trends shaping the global economy. Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh is considering reducing the…
“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…
On this week’s very special Hater Week episode, Nathan, Chris, and Riley are joined by the crown prince of hating himself, Ed Zitron. We talk to Ed about what it means to be an effective hater in his…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the media deliberately ignores reality to hide how Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s cloud growth is near-entirely driven by Anthropic…
¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2026! ¿Está la economía de los Grandes Modelos de Lenguaje (LLM) completamente rota y destinada al colapso? Desglosamos por qué los modelos de suscripción actuales no…
SoFi CEO Anthony Noto joins Squawk on the Street after the stock tumbles despite record quarterly net revenue, explaining the results and outlook for the fintech company. Plus, AI skeptic Ed Zitron…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by writer and software engineer Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, weakening businesses and creating a culture…
“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…
“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…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how hyperscalers have wasted $1.1 trillion in capex on AI in a desperate attempt to sustain hypergrowth, and report on how without…
Ed Elson is joined by Ed Zitron to explore why AI companies have racked up so much debt and how they are able to keep it off their balance sheets. Then, Karim Bousta joins to give his takeaways from…
At the end of last week Elon Musk’s much-hyped SpaceX shares took a tumble just over a month after the company went public. But what does that mean for the big AI companies and for the so-called AI…
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In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the broken state of the stock market, the collapse of financial regulation, SpaceX’s post-IPO horror show, and…
“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…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how OpenAI’s collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill Oracle, and destroy…
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about how demand for AI GPUs helped the RAM cartel make every single consumer electronic more expensive, and how bad it’ll…
“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…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is inflating the price of memory across the board by diverting fab capacity to building high bandwidth memory for GPUs, and…
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down what tech journalist and podcaster Ed Zitron is saying about there being a massive, multi-layered AI bubble. In recent interviews and in his newsletter Where’s Your Ed…
This week’s Better Offline is the first joint episode with Riley, November, Hussein from TrashFuture, covering SoftBank’s crazy annual shareholder meeting and the general collapse of the AI bubble.Ed…
Ed Zitron and the TF Crew are on both your feeds this week to discuss the Softbank slide deck breakdown you’ve all been waiting for. It’s nothing other than the goose, and whether or not the goose…
In episode 2087, Jack and Miles are joined by tech journalist and host of Better Offline , Ed Zitron , to discuss… Reality Check: The State of AI, Mitch McConnell Death Watch Continues, Netflix…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Meta’s plans to sell its AI compute, and how this is an admission to the grim fact that there isn’t really a reason for anyone to…
Ed Elson is joined by Ed Zitron to break down Meta’s move to sell its excess AI capacity and why it’s a bad sign for the AI bubble. Then, Melissa Murray joins the show to discuss the Supreme Court’s…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with the Wall Street Journal’s Caitlin Ostroff and Katherine Long about how Polymarket is working with influencers to show videos of fake bets cashing out -…
Commodore 64 built a phone. Say yes to the interNOT, they market. And we are fans. What a way to open the doom hole, with a Santa-bell worthy story! Ed Zitron guest on Better Offline writes a opinion…
Max and 99 are back, back, back again. They hit headlines on the Supreme Court shielding Roundup from cancer lawsuits, Stephen Miller quietly gutting disability rights, a socialist congressman who…
“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 host of the Better…
Smell that? Is that the stench of the algae bloom in Washington? Or maybe the odor of a big honkin’ AI bubble that is ready to burst? I’ll tell you what doesn’t stink: the huge sweep in Left Wing…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how organizations are freaking out after having to pay the real cost of AI tokens, and how the surge of competitive open weight…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is the pinnacle of Silicon Valley monoculture, and a monument to the cargo cult desperation of a tech industry that…
Chapo tech correspondent and AI skeptic Ed Zitron is back to mourn Our Keir, a good man struck down in his prime. What will the future hold for the UK, and are the writers foreshadowing 2029 in…
This week we said goodbye to Alan Greenspan, the man who spent two decades quietly rigging the economy for the wealthy, and encouraged working people to take on debt he knew would blow up in their…
Ed Zitron got OpenAI's actual financials, and the numbers are more interesting than anyone expected. In this episode of the Cerebral Valley Show, we break down Ed Zitron's FT-reported scoop on…
Ed Zitron is one of the most prolific skeptic of the AI Boom. Having just reported OpenAI’s 2025 financial loss, he joins Jack to argue that the sheer size of the losses by the large language model…
“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…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about AI companies “doom trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we…
Ed broke some very interesting news about Open AI's finances that could have an impact on its upcoming IPO + more. Follow Ed at www.wheresyoured.at Full Episode: Patreon.com/KillTheComputer
Talking Feds’ Harry Litman stops by to talk about Trump’s latest illegal behavior. Better Offline’s Ed Zitron joins us to discuss the latest AI news. Where's Your Ed At Newsletter:…
Doemdenkers zijn erg goed in het verkopen van nieuwsbrieven. Neem nou Ed Zitron . De man heeft zichzelf vastgenageld als Odysseus aan een paal. Zijn boodschap is al jaren dezelfde: AI is allemaal…
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how OpenAI’s financials have just been leaked to independent journalist Ed Zitron, ahead of the planned OpenAI IPO. The audited figures reveal mounting costs and a far…
Bloomberg enthüllt, warum SpaceX die Colossus-Rechenleistung vermieten musste. OpenAI gewinnt die Trade-Secrets-Klage von xAI. Ed Zitron veröffentlicht exklusiv die OpenAI-Finanzen für 2024 und 2025,…
Ed Elson is joined by Ed Zitron to discuss OpenAI’s leaked financials and how much money they are actually losing. Then, Nicolas Owens joins the show to unpack why he thinks SpaceX is overvalued.…
OpenAI Financials Leaked for AI Business - Ed Zitron Proves Water is Wet
This week's guest is tech critic, podcaster, and professionally angry dude Ed Zitron . Adam asks Ed what things would have to happen for him to be less angry (mostly, regulating the tech industry).…
Robert sits down with Ed Zitron to discuss one of the deadliest fake tech products in history: the Gopher, a fake golf ball detector that became a fake bomb detector and got hundreds of people…
In a special exclusive episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into the audited financials of OpenAI from 2024 and 2025.Companion newsletter: www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/ Save…
The Trump administration gave Anthropic 90 minutes to respond before pulling Fable, their most advanced AI model, from public access. In this episode, we break down the Fable shutdown and whether it…
Listen, it's Ed Zitron, he doesn't need an introduction. If you live under a rock (very reasonable mental health decision in the year of our Lord, 2026) you can find his work at Where's Your Ed At?…
Ingen har egentlig en forklaring på hvorfor vi driver med AI, eller hva det faktisk fører til: Det er kjernen i AI-boblen. I dagens episode diskuterer vi påstandene til podcastjournalist Ed Zitron.…
“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…
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down what Ed Zitron is currently saying about the AI bubble he sees in financial markets, and the companies involved, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic.…
Tech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online between 2022 and 2023, and almost every major web platform seeing a decline in growth since 2021. In this episode,…
Ed Zitron joins to explain why and when the AI Bubble will pop, AMD’s RDNA 5 pivot, and more! [SPON: Wondershare Recoverit V14 AI-Powered Data Recovery: https://cutt.ly/pt0IMyPG ] [SPON: $24 Win11…
There’s a lot to unpack about the economic effects of artificial intelligence. It’s clear that artificial intelligence is having a moment (to say the least) and that it has a profound impact on…
Ed Zitron is back, and he's making his strongest case yet that OpenAI and Anthropic are running a deliberate con on the public. In his second appearance on the Newcomer Podcast, Ed Zitron sits down…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how the “does AI have ROI?” debate is coming at the worst possible time for two companies that can’t afford to slow down thanks to…
Ed Zitron, Scott Galloway und Gary Marcus warnen vor dem AI-Crash. Wie ernst muss man sie nehmen? ChatGPT knackt die Milliardenmarke an monatlichen Nutzern, OpenAI Codex meldet 5 Millionen Weekly…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about why nobody can find the ROI of AI, why there won’t be a Dot Com Bubble-style recovery for AI data centers,…
Bitcoin, which has struggled amid a surprise BlackRock sell-off, has dropped under the closely-watched $70,000 per bitcoin level. ~This Episode is Sponsored by OKX~ Trade RLUSD/XRP on OKX + claim the…
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Ed Zitron, host of the podcast Better Offline and a certified hater of AI. After yet another AI writing scandal, this time involving the 2026…
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Ed Zitron, host of the podcast Better Offline and a certified hater of AI. After yet another AI writing scandal, this time involving the 2026…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI’s move to token-based billing has revealed that absolutely nobody has a way of measuring AI’s ROI - and how these massive…
Dean Baker sits down with Ed Zitron, CEO of Media Relations and Primary Research and one of the most prominent voices sounding the alarm on the AI bubble. They dig into Nvidia's ballooning valuation,…
In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron runs you through how Uber’s COO said the quiet part out loud - that AI’s outputs and efficacy do not match up with its ruinous costs - and how despite its…
🎙️ Esta semana se concentró el debate más importante del año sobre IA en cinco días. Ed Zitron publicó "AI Is Too Expensive" — los hyperscalers necesitan $3 trillones en revenue para break-even del…
“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…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Anthropic’s claims it will be non-GAAP EBITDA profitable for Q2 2026 by having SpaceX discount its compute costs, and how said…
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s alleged GPU shipments to China, how AI is choking the PC gaming industry, and how mad Jensen Huang keeps…
“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…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how LLMs and the obsession with AI is actively destroying the fabric of the tech industry.Please subscribe to my premium newsletter…
Ed Elson is joined by Ed Zitron to discuss the state of the AI industry (read: bubble). Zitron argues that every AI startup is unprofitable at its core. Then James Kynge breaks down what to expect…
On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by the hosts of the Ben & Emil show to talk about how the markets have been driven insane by semiconductor buzz and social media…
“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…
This week’s Better Offline is a recording of a panel held by Clarion West in Seattle earlier this year with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron, discussing enshittification, The Rot Economy, and the…
AI – and coverage of it – is everywhere. But what is artificial intelligence, really, beyond the buzzword? Each week, in a special new miniseries - ‘The AI End Game’ - Chris Hayes is joined by…
“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…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70-80% of Amazon and Microsoft’s AI revenue and capacity is taken up by OpenAI and Anthropic, and how capacity constraints across…
On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into Palantir’s 22-point manifesto with Caleb and June from Kill The Computer.The Manifesto: https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312 Caleb…
“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…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how OpenAI must grow its revenue by 1000% in the next three years and raise at least another $200 billion for it to be able to pay its…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport to talk about the Claude Mythos marketing scam, the lies around AI job loss, and why LLMs shouldn’t…
“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…
John Johnston (JJ) discusses the ramifications of the recent attacks on AI tech billionaire Sam Altman and others, and why AI is facing a growing public backlash. JJ also reacts to Ed Elson from Prof…
Hi. On today's episode, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan talk with Ed Zitron about Allbirds, Anthropic's Mythos, and other A.I. stories. After that they dig into JD Vance's fight with the Pope and Pete…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron discusses how AI labs’ dangerous rhetoric around AI capabilities and job loss are antagonizing and terrifying people that are already on edge, and…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to talk about introspection-free venture capital, the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse effect of LLMs, and trying to…
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to some of a recent interview with Ed Zitron, who thinks that OpenAI’s Sam Altman “is an historic con artist”, and the the AI boom is mostly inflated hype This follows a…
“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…
Ed Zitron is back on the show, because it’s been too long since he last came on to yell at us about AI. And there’s a lot to yell about! To kick it off, we get the latest on the Big AI Companies, and…
In a special episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by writers Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz of the New Yorker to talk about their massive investigation into Sam Altman, his ouster from…
This is the first episode I'm releasing only for paid members on our Patreon channel . In this episode Jim responds to news and opinion from AI skeptic pundits, notably Ed Zitron and Corey Doctorow,…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about the large amount of speculative data center land purchases, the brittle NVIDIA GPU economy, and the…
“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…
Friend of the show Ed Zitron returns to discuss some of the recent developments in AI "profitability," or rather the fact that, while the economy doesn't hinge on AI in any meaningful way, the…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron breaks down why AI isn’t too big to fail, why no bailout is coming, and how people need to learn more about history before using it to justify…
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…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron discusses Anthropic’s aggressive new rate limits, the leak of Claude Code’s source code, and the dread consequences of having software written 100% by LLMs.…
“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…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about OpenAI killing Sora, and how the majority of announced data centers are either barely getting built or vaporware, with only 3GW of IT…
To honor the life and death of our favorite application, you can get 50% off your first month of our premium feed using the coupon code SORA50 at www.Patreon.com/KillThecomputer The Smiling Man…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s strange and embarrassing GTC, DLSS5, and the increasingly-hysterical AI bubble.Free newsletter that…
Career pivots can be terrifying. How do you know when the time is right? Is it ever too late to switch jobs? What if the next thing is worse? This week, we’ve assembled a panel of career change…
Career pivots can be terrifying. How do you know when the time is right? Is it ever too late to switch jobs? What if the next thing is worse? This week, we’ve assembled a panel of career change…
Career pivots can be terrifying. How do you know when the time is right? Is it ever too late to switch jobs? What if the next thing is worse? This week, we’ve assembled a panel of career change…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about hyperscalers allowing non-technical workers to ship code, and how the over-reliance on LLMs and push to ship as much code as possible is…
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor of Barron’s to talk about the legalities of prediction markets, their effect on society, and how everyone is operating…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the end of tech’s hypergrowth era, generative AI’s failure as a business model, and why we need to stop looking to the past to prove…
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed is joined by Henry Zebrowski of Last Podcast on the Left to talk about Business Idiots, the…
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, about the realities of LLMs and the…
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…
We're joined by recurring guest and friend of the show Ed Zitron to discuss Stargate, the Citrini AI report, and an article about someone's quest to make eternal Scott Adams. For lack of a better…
“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…
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