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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 business of building AI infrastructure increasingly looks like a house of cards. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_tech_reprt/ Facebook: @TheTechReport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 every claimed AI advance this summer was overhyped. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_tech_reprt/ Facebook: @TheTechReport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the data center overbuild and Oracle issuing a force majeure notice over expected delays to it’s data center project in New Mexico. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the intersection between AI and labor movements as the AI backlash grows and new figures reveal support for unions are at a record high. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 Isaac Pound to talk about how some of the founding principles of the AI industry are now in question after business leaders admit they’re not using frontier models. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 reliance on frontier models. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about if the AI industry can afford to slow down and why industry leaders are calling for a pacing of development in the first place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 why the AI industry is continuing to buy AI chips despite reports that significant amounts of GPUs are going uninstalled. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 Isaac Pound about the AI safety, regulation and the possible explanation for why OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI are really calling for the pace of AI development to be slowed down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the exaggerated claims AI will eradicate the human race and the next stage in the commoditisation of AI, compute futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 Reverse Centaur’s Guide To Life After AI Cory Doctorow join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the the narrative and economics of Artificial Intelligence and why the AI bubble needs to end sooner rather than later. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 Burke joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how chatbots can be easily influenced by marketing information and incorrect data. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 ChatGPT 6 ‘Astra’ as industry leader declare we have entered the era of AGI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 industry as new Ramp statistics reveal that the 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic’s revenue come from 1% of their customers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 to buy or use AI generated products and content as companies like Spotify and LinkedIn take steps to limit and remove AI slop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.