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“We’re only going to see more burnout as employers either adopt more AI tools or they just keep pushing employees for more so they can hit targets.”

Author of book and newsletter Blood in the Machine Brian Merchant joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the strain being placed on workers under AI adoption mandates as a new survey reveals 20% of AI layoffs have been reversed.

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“To call this horrifying just doesn’t do it justice.”

Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic getting hacked and the future of AI agents as banks and now Amazon have started blocking them from their platforms.

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“I’m going to take money from my left pocket, put it in the right pocket and get very rich that way. That doesn’t work.”

Senior Distinguished Fellow for the Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the warnings signs of an AI bubble and the future of US tech as China’s AI market crashes after investors lose patience waiting for return on investment.

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“I don’t know what anthropic does now because you’re going to the junk bond market that’s already strained.”

Writer of Where’s You Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic’s IPO as the story breaks that Blackstone does not expect the maker of Claude to reach investment grade debt.

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“If there’s a real threat from AI on the existential scale, it’s from the emissions.”

Tech journalist and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the physical impact data centers are having on the world and how the biggest threat from AI is not killer robots or Skynet.

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“Vibe code will be a security disaster and we’re just building and bigger and bigger pile of technical debt.”

Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the real impact of the recently discovered PHP vulnerabilities and the impact of LLMs on cybersecurity.

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“It really is a question of just when the market loses faith. It’s a religious cult on some level, but with stocks.”

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 IMF’s AI bubble warning and how banks are already reaching a limit on the amount of AI related debt they can hold.

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“This is the worst possible scenario… because it means that Nvidia does not have crazy demand for GPUs”

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 internal Amazon documents and email revealing the company is warehousing GPUs it cannot install.

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“It’s impossible to see what they envision happening… there’s literally nothing on the horizon.”

Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about new research from Gartner that predicts the AI industry will fall $5bn short of its minimum target and how long OpenAI and Anthropic can survive without making a profit.

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“The problems they are running into, to call them rank amateur is to insult amateurs.”

Eli the Computer Guy join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the incompetence behind the so-called rouge AI cyber security issues faced by OpenAI and Anthropic and how automated AI grading might be reinforcing unaligned behaviour.

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“The usual ability of the AI industry has to put the toothpaste back in the tube is not working anymore.”

Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the latest tech stock sell off as the confidence in the AI market shows signs of running out.

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“The business model is to make a bubble.”

Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the US Court of Appeals rejecting an AI companies claim that using copyrighted material as training data counts as fair use and how unreacted documents from The New York Times’s copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal the AI developers knew their technology would create ‘doom loops’.

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AI researcher and safety expert Connor Leahy joins Will Guyatt on The Tech Report to talk about the risk of lettings AI companies self regulate and how AI labs are more focused on developing their technology to secure power rather than money.

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Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the future of the software industry after AI-assisted decompiling shook the industry with how quickly it could generate source code for popular games and programmes like Adobe.

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“It’s kind of like a student loan where your mum or your dad co-signs, except your mum is Sundar Pichai.”

The Tech Report's Will Guyatt talks with Ed Zitron about his latest newsletter article 'Credit Crunch,' and how raising debt is becoming more costly for many key players in the AI business.

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"If Apple comes out with AI AirPods, you might call the police." Eli the Computer Guy joins the Tech Report's Will Guyatt to discuss the White House rebranding of AI as Superintelligence and grapples with accusations that Google has been 'benchmaxxing' their latest AI model, Gemini Argon 4.

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Following Sam Altman’s suggestion that the world should accept “some bad things” in exchange for AI, The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt joins Pivot to AI’s David Gerard to discuss whether it's necessary to endure bad things - and whether anybody at OpenAI is still concerned about safety.

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Will Guyatt from The Tech Report talks to David Gerard from Pivot-to-AI about Oracle referring to a gas-pipeline delay at a mega data centre as an act of God, and why the business of building AI infrastructure increasingly looks like a house of cards. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_tech_reprt/ Facebook: @TheTechReport

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“Rogue AI agent is going to become the word of 2026.” Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Will Guyatt about a new MIT Technology Review article which says almost every claimed AI advance this summer was overhyped.

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“I estimate $200bn to $300bn worth of GPUs are either in warehouses or sitting in unpowered data centres.”

Writers 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 data center overbuild and Oracle issuing a force majeure notice over expected delays to it’s data center project in New Mexico.

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