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“It’s the first of what I expect be a series of studies on what actually is happening behind all of these AI related layoffs.”Technology journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why Meta employees are protesting over workplace surveillance and how a recent study by Gartner shows cutting headcount as part of AI adoption is undermining return on investment.

“We are working under the hypothesis that the data centre issue is going to be one of the main issues of the midterms.”Lead Researcher at Data Center Watch Miquel Vila tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound how opposition to data centres has increased with public awareness to the point that it is defining elections already.

“Every time you look for the supposed gold mine, you find someone just handing someone money instead of the gold coming out.”Author 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 circular financing propping up the AI bubble and Goldman Sachs’ Tracking Trillions report which describes the AI boom as driven by fear rather than fundamentals.Ed's latest free newsletter: AI's Circular Psychosis: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/o5w5z8mj9q📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.comFor more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron

Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins The Tech Reports Isaac Pound to talk about the most recent drama from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as testimony reveals previously unknown financial conflicts and desires to use the AI company to raise money for cities on Mars.

“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.

“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.Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/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

“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.If you'd like to find out more about Ypsilanti, Michigan's Stop The Data Centre campaign:Linktree : https://linktr.ee/stopthedataInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stopthedataSubstack: https://substack.com/@stopthedatacenter

“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.