The Tech Report

“The AI companies have done us great favour of making this an immediate, visceral, visual threat.”

Journalist and Author of Nerd Reich Gil Duran joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why the American public supports public ownership of AI companies and what it would look like if it happens.

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“I think we’re getting there… AI doesn’t work very well and it’s sort of selling itself on the future promises.”

Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the fundamental problem with the AI development business model, selling it at a price people can and will pay for.

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“People fundamentally don’t understand what the real value this technology is supposed to bring.”

Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the disillusionment surrounding SpaceX’s stock price despite an optimistic Wall Street as well what the rise and fall tells us about the mood in the AI and tech industry as it braces for further volatility.

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“I think we’re on the path to the first real tech Great Depression.”

Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offlines podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss recent analysis showing the together the five largest US hyperscalers have become net cash borrowers in an attempt to fund the buildout of AI, a technology which has never been profitable.

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“Why are chatbots doubling down on these ideas when the user is very clearly saying ‘I am in distress’ or ‘I am confused, can you help me?’”

Senior staff writer at Futurism Maggie Harrison Dupré joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how where AI delusions and AI psychosis come from, how chatbots have been found to co-create delusions and the role tech companies have played by marketing their products irresponsibly.

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“It’s the surviving companies that will rehire, the others will have killed themselves with AI.”

Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the growing trend of companies rehiring for roles previously cut under the belief AI could replace jobs.

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“The argument for building more of these AI data centers is getting worse by the day.”

Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss OpenAI’s reported inference halving breakthrough and how the astronomical spending by the AI industry has created a vulnerability to innovation.

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“It’s yet another one of those instances where you wonder why people haven’t seen this coming.”

Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about some concerning cases of AI psychosis in the workplace.

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“It’s yet another one of those instances where you wonder why people haven’t seen this coming.”

Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about some concerning cases of AI psychosis in the workplace.

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“As a tech company, you’re not going to be able to buy the supply to built your data center.”

Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about what ChatGPT 5.6’s restricted launch means for the way America will regulated AI and how the memory crisis is unsustainable.

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