The Tech Report

“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 and Policy Research Dean Baker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the warnings signs of an AI bubble and the future of US tech as China’s AI market crashes after investors lose patience waiting for return on investment.

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“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 Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic’s IPO as the story breaks that Blackstone does not expect the maker of Claude to reach investment grade debt.

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“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 talk about the physical impact data centers are having on the world and how the biggest threat from AI is not killer robots or Skynet.

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“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 Isaac Pound to talk about the real impact of the recently discovered PHP vulnerabilities and the impact of LLMs on cybersecurity.

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“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 Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the IMF’s AI bubble warning and how banks are already reaching a limit on the amount of AI related debt they can hold.

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“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 Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about internal Amazon documents and email revealing the company is warehousing GPUs it cannot install.

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“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 Baker talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about new research from Gartner that predicts the AI industry will fall $5bn short of its minimum target and how long OpenAI and Anthropic can survive without making a profit.

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“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 behind the so-called rouge AI cyber security issues faced by OpenAI and Anthropic and how automated AI grading might be reinforcing unaligned behaviour.

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“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 joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the latest tech stock sell off as the confidence in the AI market shows signs of running out.

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“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 companies claim that using copyrighted material as training data counts as fair use and how unreacted documents from The New York Times’s copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal the AI developers knew their technology would create ‘doom loops’.

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