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“People don’t want Tech coming into their neighbourhood without permission, or arrogantly.”404 Media’s Joseph Cox joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the controversies surrounding automatic license plate recognition cameras as the backlash against Flock grows.

“I think we’re in this moment where those promises are starting to kind of erode.”Tech journalist and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about AI in the workplace after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns one of the biggest risks of AI is ‘cognitive atrophy’ and a study by Adaptavist reveals two thirds of office workers want to go back to working without AI.

“They committed felonies and the government isn’t doing anything.”Eli the Computer Guy joints The Tech Report’s Isaac pound to talk about the negligence of AI companies after OpenAI and Anthropic admit their agents were hacking other companies without their knowledge.

“It’s never been about what LLMs can actually do. It’s about the perception of AI’s potential.”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 state of circular financing in the AI bubble after Nvidia floated a $250 loan guarantee to build OpenAI a data center and another $350 loan of GPUs to put in it.Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/o5w5z8mj9q 

“I’ not sure this really is going to be paced. I think it’s almost like a cry for help.”Author of 'Marcus on AI' and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about OpenAI and Anthropic backing an international slow down of AI model development, that AI pacing might look like and why AI companies should not be left to regulate themselves.

“I’m very exited about this technology… but I’m also deeply critical of how it’s being deployed and I don’t think those two positions are contradictory.”El from House of El joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the pro-AI vs anti-AI debate, some fundamental misunderstandings that deepen the divide and why differentiating types of artificial intelligence is important when criticising AI companies’ business strategies.

“The debt always comes due.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the continued drop in the valuation of SpaceX and Tesla as Elon Musk struggles to make the business case for his unproven technology.

“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.