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The AI boom is an illusion built on two companies | Ed Zitron
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“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.
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Rogue AI agents aren’t the real problem | Eli the Computer Guy
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AI Bubble: ‘We’re coming to the end of this’ | Ed Zitron
39:29||Season 1“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
AI CEOs are trying to slow down model development | Gary Marcus
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The AI Lie: ‘It’s not just misleading it’s dangerous’ | House of El: AI
46:40||Season 1“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.