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“The business model is to make a bubble.”Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the US Court of Appeals rejecting an AI companies claim that using copyrighted material as training data counts as fair use and how unreacted documents from The New York Times’s copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal the AI developers knew their technology would create ‘doom loops’.

AI researcher and safety expert Connor Leahy joins Will Guyatt on The Tech Report to talk about the risk of lettings AI companies self regulate and how AI labs are more focused on developing their technology to secure power rather than money.

Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the future of the software industry after AI-assisted decompiling shook the industry with how quickly it could generate source code for popular games and programmes like Adobe.

“It’s kind of like a student loan where your mum or your dad co-signs, except your mum is Sundar Pichai.” The Tech Report's Will Guyatt talks with Ed Zitron about his latest newsletter article 'Credit Crunch,' and how raising debt is becoming more costly for many key players in the AI business.

"If Apple comes out with AI AirPods, you might call the police." Eli the Computer Guy joins the Tech Report's Will Guyatt to discuss the White House rebranding of AI as Superintelligence and grapples with accusations that Google has been 'benchmaxxing' their latest AI model, Gemini Argon 4.

Following Sam Altman’s suggestion that the world should accept “some bad things” in exchange for AI, The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt joins Pivot to AI’s David Gerard to discuss whether it's necessary to endure bad things - and whether anybody at OpenAI is still concerned about safety.