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"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 information.

“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://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/3o1fvrk88u#/ 📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.com For more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 bill which would limit AI companies liability in AI-enabled mass casualty events. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 information.

"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.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really-weird/ Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/3o1fvrk88u#/ 📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.com For more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/ Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/3o1fvrk88u#/ 📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.com For more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 build out is not as big as it seems. Also Nvidia’s GPUs are not being used could this cause trouble for CoreWEave’s GPU backed debt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/ Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/3o1fvrk88u#/ 📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.com For more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.