The Tech Report

“There is no issue that unites the public like hatred of data centers, Big Tech, and the AI companies.”

Author of the book and newsletter Blood in The Machine Brian Merchant joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about AI data center and local opposition after the governor of Texas says developers have “dug their own graves.” 

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“It may not be feasible of them to say that they’re wrong.”

Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the uncertain future of frontier AI model development as usage numbers for Anthropic’s Fable 5 have stagnated and OpenAI says they plan to slow down the development of their next model.

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Journalist and AI Advisor Alex Hudson from the Crashed podcast joins The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt to look into Open AI’s slowing down of AI development to overhaul safety systems, They also discuss warnings to UK local government that AI tools are not a silver bullet to recoup £4bn budget cuts, new AI slop research and a start-up’s new writing policy.

Alex Hudson is co-host of the Crashed podcast; a new episode drops every Thursday.

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“Nothing is where it needs to be. Absolutely nothing. Nvidia’s $200bn in revenue, that’s chump change compared to where they need to be in a year.”

Writer 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 Nvidia exacerbating the AI bubble circular financing problem with a newly announced $500bn financing proposal as the SEC exempts some data center backed securities from regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis.

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“Why should people read something you couldn’t be bothered to write?”

Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about dead internet theory and how AI is eating itself as the CFO of Cloudflare predicts bots will outnumber humans 1000:1 in five years.

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“This is a great example of what AI should be used for… as long as the systems are designed properly.”

Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the pros and cons of using AI in emergency call dispatching as New Orleans, Seattle and Atlanta incorporate AI emergency call answering agents into their 911 systems.

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“If 70% of AI revenues are these two companies, there is no AI industry.”

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 state of the AI industry as it’s revealed that over two thirds of hyperscaler AI revenue is coming from two companies.

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“People don’t want Tech coming into their neighbourhood without permission, or arrogantly.”

404 Media’s Joseph Cox joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the controversies surrounding automatic license plate recognition cameras as the backlash against Flock grows.

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“I think we’re in this moment where those promises are starting to kind of erode.”

Tech journalist and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about AI in the workplace after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns one of the biggest risks of AI is ‘cognitive atrophy’ and a study by Adaptavist reveals two thirds of office workers want to go back to working without AI.

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“They committed felonies and the government isn’t doing anything.”

Eli the Computer Guy joints The Tech Report’s Isaac pound to talk about the negligence of AI companies after OpenAI and Anthropic admit their agents were hacking other companies without their knowledge.

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