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"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.

Will Guyatt from The Tech Report talks to David Gerard from Pivot-to-AI about Oracle referring to a gas-pipeline delay at a mega data centre as an act of God, and why the business of building AI infrastructure increasingly looks like a house of cards. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_tech_reprt/ Facebook: @TheTechReport

“Rogue AI agent is going to become the word of 2026.” Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt about a new MIT Technology Review article which says almost every claimed AI advance this summer was overhyped. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_tech_reprt/ Facebook: @TheTechReport

“I estimate $200bn to $300bn worth of GPUs are either in warehouses or sitting in unpowered data centres.”Writers 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 data center overbuild and Oracle issuing a force majeure notice over expected delays to it’s data center project in New Mexico.

“The threat of AI is there to force down wages and essentially force down the leverage of workers.”Host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and author of Hyperscalers Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the intersection between AI and labor movements as the AI backlash grows and new figures reveal support for unions are at a record high.

“They need trillions of dollars in revenue. Who’s going to pay it?”Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how some of the founding principles of the AI industry are now in question after business leaders admit they’re not using frontier models.

“Nobody cared about the model.”Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the tech underpinning the AI hype and how the industry is moving away from reliance on frontier models.