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  • The AI arms race is a lobbying myth | Bruce Schneier

    21:36||Season 1
    “If a pharmaceutical company decided to market a drug that kills people and then say ‘well, it kills less than 100 people, so we’re not liable,’ we’d look at them and say ‘you’re freaking crazy.’”Internationally renowned security researcher and author of Rewiring Democracy Bruce Schneier joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss AI regulation as OpenAI and Anthropic fight over an Illinois bill which would limit AI companies liability in AI-enabled mass casualty events.

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  • Workers are sabotaging AI and poisoning company data | Natasha Bernal

    34:54||Season 1
    Tech journalist Natasha Bernal talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the movement of workers sabotaging their employers AI rollouts, Tesla’s stock price continuing to plummet and how the rhetoric around AI has turned violent with the attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
  • Why 80% of workers are rejecting ai mandates | Nick Lichtenberg

    21:42||Season 1
    “If workers felt like someone was trying to actually listen to them a their issues with AI… then the anger could come down a bit.”Fortune Business Editor Nick Lichtenberg talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the state of AI’s adoption into the workplace and why workers are left feeling angry and disenfranchised by executive pressure to AI.
  • Data centres cancelled: ‘Every data centre has local opposition’ | Karen Feraden

    21:16||Season 1
    "I think they'd rather bail, honestly, than try to move forward with these projects."Co-founder of better path coalition Karen Feraden tells the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the growing opposition to data centres in the US and the “waining enthusiasm” among hyperscalers trying to push through projects.
  • ‘Sam Altman is an historic con artist’ | Ed Zitron

    30:32||Season 1
    “This is the largest con inside the LLM market”Ariter 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 Sam Altman’s fall from grace following a New Yorker expose and the PR scam surrounding Claude Mythos.The Hater's Guide to OpenAI: https://www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-openai/Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really-weird/Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/3o1fvrk88u#/📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.comFor more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron
  • Claude Mythos is mostly ‘marketing hype’ | Bruce Schneier

    23:23||Season 1
    “They’re convincing a lot of people that Mythos is this amazing step change in capability when the evidence right now… is that it might not be.”Renowned security researcher and author of Rewiring Democracy Bruce Schneier tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound the noise and fear around Claude Mythos is mostly “marketing hype” and many other smaller AI models are just as capable.
  • AI’s biggest weakness exposed by the Iran war

    23:42||Season 1
    “Data centre can very much be legitimate military targets.”Cyber and Tech research fellow at RUSI Joseph Jarnecki joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to explore what Iran’s targeting of American tech interests in the region means for the future of big tech’s “fragile” infrastructure.