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  • “There’s no such thing as Rogue AI” David Gerard
    Following Sam Altman’s suggestion that the world should accept “some bad things” in exchange for AI, The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt joins Pivot to AI’s David Gerard to discuss whether it's necessary to endure bad things - and whether anybody at OpenAI is still concerned about safety.

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    32 min
  • "AI is a multipole Enron" | David Gerard
    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

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    31 min
  • Hyperscalers are hiding a massive secret about uninstalled GPUs | Ed Zitron

    “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.

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    49 min
  • AI wasn’t made for you | Paris Marx

    “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.

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    36 min
  • Frontier AI is getting rejected by businesses | Dean Baker

    “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.

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    31 min
  • AI can’t afford to slow down | Ed Zitron

    “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.

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    23 min
  • AI Bubble: ‘This could humiliate the largest companies in the world’ | Ed Zitron

    “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.

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    27 min
  • AI Safety: ‘Sam Altman should face a grand jury’ | Eli the Computer Guy

    “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.

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    35 min

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  1. Number 1: Hyperscalers are hiding a massive secret about uninstalled GPUs | Ed Zitron
    49 min
  2. Number 2: "AI is a multipole Enron" | David Gerard
    31 min
  3. Number 3: AI wasn’t made for you | Paris Marx
    36 min