The Tech Report

“Until it’s clear how AI development can be centred on what workers and the consumers want, there’s no reason to expect the public not to hate AI.”Co-host of This Machine Kills and author of The Tech Bubble newsletter Edward Ongweso Jr joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the lack of identifiable return on investment from AI as 90% of executives admit they still have not seen any boost to productivity from adopting the technology.

“There is no issue that unites the public like hatred of data centers, Big Tech, and the AI companies.”Author of the book and newsletter Blood in The Machine Brian Merchant joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about AI data center and local opposition after the governor of Texas says developers have “dug their own graves.” 

“It may not be feasible of them to say that they’re wrong.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the uncertain future of frontier AI model development as usage numbers for Anthropic’s Fable 5 have stagnated and OpenAI says they plan to slow down the development of their next model.

“Nothing is where it needs to be. Absolutely nothing. Nvidia’s $200bn in revenue, that’s chump change compared to where they need to be in a year.”Writer 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 Nvidia exacerbating the AI bubble circular financing problem with a newly announced $500bn financing proposal as the SEC exempts some data center backed securities from regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis.

“Why should people read something you couldn’t be bothered to write?”Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about dead internet theory and how AI is eating itself as the CFO of Cloudflare predicts bots will outnumber humans 1000:1 in five years.

“This is a great example of what AI should be used for… as long as the systems are designed properly.”Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the pros and cons of using AI in emergency call dispatching as New Orleans, Seattle and Atlanta incorporate AI emergency call answering agents into their 911 systems.

“If 70% of AI revenues are these two companies, there is no AI industry.”Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of the AI industry as it’s revealed that over two thirds of hyperscaler AI revenue is coming from two companies.

“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.