The Tech Report

“We are building data centres as if we understand what we’re doing, when I really don’t think we do.”

Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to unpick Nvidia’s new closed loop water-cooling technology that promises to ‘eliminate’ water consumption of data centres and how the speed of the AI built out risks wasting money on obsolete infrastructure.

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 “So we’re sitting on this series of time bombs and the fact the people with the money haven’t been asking the questions is genuinely dangerous.”

Author of Where Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about OpenAI delaying their IPO and the multi-trillion dollar tech stock sell off that has followed a souring in public an investors confidence in AI.

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“It’s kind of a damming indictment for the use of these tools… that the people using them most are kind of like ‘eh’.”

Tech journalists Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why public opinion of AI is souring while usage rates are going up and what the growing backlash against the technology means for the business models of frontier AI labs.

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“It opens them up to a new kind of front of liability”

Host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about a ruling in Germany that found Google liable for the inaccuracies of its AI Overviews.

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“If I was like an Argentinian CTO, I cannot fathom why I would build my architecture and American AI right now. There's no way I would have trust in that.”

Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the export ban on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5, and how the resulting uncertainty will put off business looking to adopt AI into their workflows.

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“You shouldn’t be debating whether AI has ROI… you don’t get to do that anymore. You’ve burned over $1trn on this.”

Author of Where Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to dig into OpenAI’s leaked financials and how AI has hit a price wall with token-based billing.

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“It’s a mistake to wipe out a whole skill set based on the ability of one AI tool that you have as a subscription.”

Tech Journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how AI is deepening wage inequality, how that divide is playing out on graduates and the instability of rebuilding a business around an AI subscription.

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“Sometimes very valuable, very important technology doesn’t have a business case.”

Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Apple’s plan for interfacing with AI and OpenAI’s miscalculation about where the real money in AI is going to be.

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“It’s been less than three months and their customers are taking hostages.”

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 the record breaking SpaceX IPO and how AI’s subsidy crisis is getting worse as OpenAI and Anthropic consider price cuts after enterprise customers revolt over token-based pricing.

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“It leaves companies like OpenAI and Anthropic massively exposed.”

Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Apple’s AI strategy ahead of their World Wide Developer Conference and how being late to market gives them the chance to focus on solving many people’s complaints about AI.

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