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“We’re in a situation where the only way of sustaining free large language models isn’t going to work.”Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss OpenAI falling short of its own internal ad targets and how the company cannot survive without them.

“People are dreaming so they don’t have to face the nightmare of reality.”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 $1.65trn of AI debt being kept off the books of the hyperscalers and how the same big tech companies have already protected themselves from the worst of the AI bubble popping.

“Absolutely everyone tunes their models to all the benchmarks.”Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the value of AI benchmarking following the reaction to Kimi 3, Chinese company Moonshot’s newest open weight LLM that created a shock to US tech stocks.

"The bigger problem with meta is just Mark Zuckerberg has just been a disaster for the past number of years."Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report's Isaac Pound to talk about the dangers of using AI for business decisions after Meta allegedly disproportionally cut staff who took time off because AI flagged them as underperforming.

“The people that got harmed the most are those who trusted Sam Altman the most.”Writer of Where Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Oracle’s credit rating being downgraded to one level above junk and majority stakes in data center companies being offered to private equity firms.

“The AI companies have done us great favour of making this an immediate, visceral, visual threat.”Journalist and Author of Nerd Reich Gil Duran joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why the American public supports public ownership of AI companies and what it would look like if it happens.

“I think we’re getting there… AI doesn’t work very well and it’s sort of selling itself on the future promises.”Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the fundamental problem with the AI development business model, selling it at a price people can and will pay for.

“People fundamentally don’t understand what the real value this technology is supposed to bring.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the disillusionment surrounding SpaceX’s stock price despite an optimistic Wall Street as well what the rise and fall tells us about the mood in the AI and tech industry as it braces for further volatility.