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The AI arms race is a lobbying myth | Bruce Schneier

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:40:11 GMT

“If a pharmaceutical company decided to market a drug that kills people and then say ‘well, it kills less than 100 people, so we’re not liable,’ we’d look at them and say ‘you’re freaking crazy.’”

Internationally renowned security researcher and author of Rewiring Democracy Bruce Schneier joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss AI regulation as OpenAI and Anthropic fight over an Illinois bill which would limit AI companies liability in AI-enabled mass casualty events.

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Workers are sabotaging AI and poisoning company data | Natasha Bernal

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:32:09 GMT

Tech journalist Natasha Bernal talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the movement of workers sabotaging their employers AI rollouts, Tesla’s stock price continuing to plummet and how the rhetoric around AI has turned violent with the attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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Why 80% of workers are rejecting ai mandates | Nick Lichtenberg

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:30:00 GMT

“If workers felt like someone was trying to actually listen to them a their issues with AI… then the anger could come down a bit.”

Fortune Business Editor Nick Lichtenberg talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the state of AI’s adoption into the workplace and why workers are left feeling angry and disenfranchised by executive pressure to AI.

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Data centres cancelled: ‘Every data centre has local opposition’ | Karen Feraden

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:20:51 GMT

"I think they'd rather bail, honestly, than try to move forward with these projects."

Co-founder of better path coalition Karen Feraden tells the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the growing opposition to data centres in the US and the “waining enthusiasm” among hyperscalers trying to push through projects.

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‘Sam Altman is an historic con artist’ | Ed Zitron

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:50:49 GMT

“This is the largest con inside the LLM market”

Ariter 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 Sam Altman’s fall from grace following a New Yorker expose and the PR scam surrounding Claude Mythos.

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Claude Mythos is mostly ‘marketing hype’ | Bruce Schneier

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:45:45 GMT

“They’re convincing a lot of people that Mythos is this amazing step change in capability when the evidence right now… is that it might not be.”

Renowned security researcher and author of Rewiring Democracy Bruce Schneier tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound the noise and fear around Claude Mythos is mostly “marketing hype” and many other smaller AI models are just as capable.

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AI’s biggest weakness exposed by the Iran war

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:56:19 GMT

“Data centre can very much be legitimate military targets.”

Cyber and Tech research fellow at RUSI Joseph Jarnecki joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to explore what Iran’s targeting of American tech interests in the region means for the future of big tech’s “fragile” infrastructure.

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‘Half of data centres aren’t getting built’ | Ed Zitron

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT

“Hyperscalers have gone from the asset light cash machines to asset heavy behemoths.”

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 how the Ai build out is not as big as it seems meanwhile Nvidia’s GPUs are going unused and losing value spelling trouble for CoreWeave’s GPU backed debt.

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The AI market is wrong about Google’s TurboQuant | Boris Gamazaychikov

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:30:00 GMT

“I don’t think this is a magic solution to change the paradigm of how we use AI or the hardware.”

AI sustainability leader Boris Gamazaychikov talks to the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about why TurboQuant, Google’s new compression breakthrough, is another DeepSeek moment for the AI industry.

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Is Big Tech losing it's influence

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:29:16 GMT

Tech Journalist Natasha Bernal talks about the influence of big tech companies and does it outweigh their accountability?

Will Guyatt tells us that there might be an end to the RAM crisis as OpenAI’s spending cuts throw their DRAM orders with Samsung and Sk Hynix into question

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Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks about how the AI build out is not as big as it seems. Also Nvidia’s GPUs are not being used could this cause trouble for CoreWEave’s GPU backed debt

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Big Tech is headed for a reckoning | Natasha Bernal

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:15:00 GMT

“I think we are approaching a reckoning.”

Tech journalist Natasha Bernal talks to the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about how people are becoming more wary of big tech companies whose influence far outweighs their accountability.

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The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:49:23 GMT

“Hyperscalers have gone from the asset light cash machines to asset heavy behemoths.”

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AI bubble won’t survive the war in Iran much longer | Tej Parikh

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:24:41 GMT

“If this is still going on for another month or so then we’re in a real problem territory.”

The Financial Times’s Tej Parikh talks to the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about how the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is threatening to derail the AI boom and a major supply chain weakness has been exposed by the conflict.

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AI Bubble: Nobody will pay for unsubsidised AI | Ed Zitron

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMT

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AI has made a recession unavoidable | Professor Steve Keen

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:19:10 GMT

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Is the financial aspect of AI becoming too demanding? Also is Meta facing layoffs?

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:21:48 GMT

Tech journalist Natasha Bernal joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Meta considering plans to cut 20% of its workforce as their latest AI model faces delays.

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The end of 'unlimited' tech industry growth?

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:41:46 GMT

On this episode of The Tech Report we’re discussing the limits to revenue growth from software - and what this tells us about AI, the continued fallout from OpenAi’s Pentagon Deal, and Anthropic’s lawsuit against the US government.

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What the ChatGPT user exodus means for the future of AI

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:45:46 GMT

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AI hype is ‘grifting’ the SaaS industry | Ed Zitron

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:45:41 GMT

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Will the AI boom stop?

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:58:10 GMT

On this episode of The Tech Report we discuss the AI bubble, how cryptocurrency funds North Korea and Iran, and Anthropic's battle with the Pentagon. Tech journalists Chris Stokel-Walker and Natasha Bernal and founder of the Global Cryptocurrency Laundering Report Alexander Browder join our regular presenters.

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The Tech Report - Recap

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:55:32 GMT

On this Episode of The Tech Report we bring you the best of our past three episodes. Our regular hosts speak to author Ed Zitron, military tech expert Kyle Chan, and journalist Natasha Bernal to discuss claims Chinese AI firms are copycats, investment in OpenAI, and plans for robot soldiers.

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OpenAI is one failed funding round from bankruptcy | Ed Zitron

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:20:11 GMT

“OpenAI think they’re building something to capture all out futures. When they’re actually building the end of theirs.”

Author of Wheres You’re Ed At & Host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about OpenAI struggle to fulfil it’s $100bn funding target and the state of the circular funding behind Nvidia’s quarterly revenue report.

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The Tech Report - Recap

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:41:30 GMT

On this Episode of The Tech Report we bring you the best of our past three episodes. Host Isaac Pound speaks to Ed Zitron, Dr Ian Cuttress & Professor Steve Keen to discuss AI productivity, the AI chip crisis, and the end of Bitcoin.

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90% of CEOs admit AI provides zero productivity growth | Ed Zitron

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:30:00 GMT

“We’re reaching this thing where we’re realising that everybody made a huge mistake.”

Author of Wheres You’re Ed At and Host of the Better Offline Podcast Ed Zitron tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that the data on productivity growth from AI adoption is flat and AI adopters are entering a “hysterical episode” as they look for pay offs from their investments.

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This could be the end of Bitcoin | Professor Steve Keen

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:01:22 GMT

“I think that may be the beginning of the end of Bitcoin.”

Professor Steve Keen told The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that if nothing else, the energy cost will be the end of bitcoin and the trading of Bitcoin on regulated markets through ETFs was a “mistake.”

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Consumer tech is headed for a subscription economy | Ian Cutress

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:01:46 GMT

“These ‘subsidised gadgets’ could that be more of a thing going forward. Yes.”

Chief analyst at More Than Moore and YouTuber Dr Ian Cutress tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that consumers are already familiar with purchasing phones or cars on a contract and it is something that could become more common place as data centres continue to “gobble up” chip supply.

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AI Bubble: How the data centre crisis risks triggering a financial crash | Ed Zitron

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:42:00 GMT

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America is not ready for how AI will affect jobs | 'The existential issue is here'

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:36:10 GMT

Today on The Tech Report, Fergus Macphee is joined by Josh Tyrangiel to discuss a long-read piece he has written in The Atlantic. Through speaking with AI execs, company CEOs, union bosses and political figures from opposing sides such as Steve Bannon & Bernie Sanders, Josh's report poses the question of how prepared America is for potential wholesale change to the job market. The answer is uncertain, but regulation is lacking and the consequences could be perilous.

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AI productivity bubble: Early adopters are already burning out | Natasha Bernal

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:30:00 GMT

“There will be a wake up call and a reckoning for entire sectors who are adopting AI”

There’s been a perhaps deliberate miss translations where people think the increased productivity from the use of AI will give them more spare time rather than make them work harder, says tech journalist Natasha Bernal.

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The Icarus Paradox: The Exodus at Elon Musk's xAI Company | Terence Mauri

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:18:16 GMT

Susan Owens is joined by Terence Mauri, the founder the management think tank, Hack Future Lab to discuss the mass exodus at xAI, ethical leadership and Elon Musk's recent plans to develop a self-growing city on the Moon.

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Introducing: The Tech Report

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:40:16 GMT

Welcome to the Tech Report, where you can keep up to date with everything you need to know from the fast-changing world of technology. Every week we’ll bring you interviews with leading experts, journalists and commentators on everything from the future of AI to tech bro meltdowns.

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