The Tech Report

“They’re losing institutional knowledge, they’re losing skills left, right and centre.”

Tech journalist Natasha Bernal join the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the repercussion of AI layoffs and how survivors productivity falls further than AI is increasing.

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“As oligarchs go, Tech moguls are much more visibly crazy.”

Staff writer for The New Republic and author of The Great Divergence, Timothy Noah, tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that the resistance to regulation within the tech industry has become “pathological” leaving tech moguls looking like Bond villains.

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“OpenAI need to grow so much more, and any slowing in growth suggests that it’s comical to expect them to reach these targets.”

Author of Where's Your Ed At & Host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about what the fallout of OpenAI missing it’s revenue and user targets means for the circular financing of the AI bubble, and Nvidia’s VP of Applied Deep Learning admitted AI costs more than an employee.

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“If we compare to even factory work in this area, that have held jobs… the world of the data centre is actually infinitely worse along every metric.”

Campaign organisers at Ypsilanti Michigan’s Stop The Data Centre campaign Stephanie Beth Jordan and Elizabeth Stewart, join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how local opposition to data centres, in town’s like Ypsilanti, is shaping national conversation and the lack of understanding of data centres that is fuelling the myth that data centres create jobs for local communities.

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“They’ve planted the flag in the sand. If people weren’t paying attention before, it’s certainly very clear from them now.”

Tech Journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Palantir and its CEO Alex Karp after leaked messaged from employees revealed a crisis of faith within the company over its unpopular ideology.

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“They are two messy people, and so they are making the lawsuit as messy as possible.”

Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman could reshape the AI industry as SpaceX and OpenAI plan to go public.

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“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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