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“They are risking a huge productivity crisis.”Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about a recent study which says AI will create more jobs than it eliminates from 2028 onwards and how executives who fail to upskill their employees will lack the workforce to fill those new roles.

“If they force the entire world to take 18 days to really start thinking about the deployment of all this hardware… is that going to be the more dangerous problem for the AI industry.”Eli the Computer Guy joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Samsung employees taking strike action over unfair distribution of the profits of surging memory prices and whether the AI bubble can survive the 18 days pause.

“Neither person in this story is a hero… in terms of a settlement, I think it’s probably too late now.”Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to take a look at the biggest moments so far from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and to talk about how the grown-up facade of some Silicon Valley CEO is slipping.

“It’s the first of what I expect be a series of studies on what actually is happening behind all of these AI related layoffs.”Technology journalist Natasha Bernal joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why Meta employees are protesting over workplace surveillance and how a recent study by Gartner shows cutting headcount as part of AI adoption is undermining return on investment.

“We are working under the hypothesis that the data centre issue is going to be one of the main issues of the midterms.”Lead Researcher at Data Center Watch Miquel Vila tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound how opposition to data centres has increased with public awareness to the point that it is defining elections already.

“Every time you look for the supposed gold mine, you find someone just handing someone money instead of the gold coming out.”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 circular financing propping up the AI bubble and Goldman Sachs’ Tracking Trillions report which describes the AI boom as driven by fear rather than fundamentals.Ed's latest free newsletter: AI's Circular Psychosis: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/o5w5z8mj9q📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.comFor more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron

Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins The Tech Reports Isaac Pound to talk about the most recent drama from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as testimony reveals previously unknown financial conflicts and desires to use the AI company to raise money for cities on Mars.

“They’re losing institutional knowledge, they’re losing skills left, right and centre.”Tech journalist Natasha Bernal join the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the repercussion of AI layoffs and how survivors productivity falls further than AI is increasing.