“Let’s be honest, this is a software update.”

Author of More Than A Glitch and NYU data journalism professor Meredith Broussard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to unpick the marketing surrounding OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5 and how AI developers use selective and limited benchmarking to “rig” their numbers.

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“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 beating OpenAI to hit $1trn valuation on secondary markets, the most resilient AI developer Microsoft shifting to charging token rates and how Oracle’s Stargate is a threat to the companies existence.

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“There is no mistaking that Apple is behind [on AI]… but Apple is profitable.” 

Snazzy Labs host Quinn Nelson joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Apple’s new CEO Jon Ternus and what is appointment means for the company’s future AI plans following its lacklustre performance in model development.

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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.

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“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. 

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“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.

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“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.

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“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.

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"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.

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