The Tech Report

This OpenAI’s ‘doom scenario’ | Eric Newcomer

“I’m deeply worried that there’s this effort to rush the indexes… so that all our assets are invested before anyone has really done an independent assessment.” Founder of tech and venture capital media group Newcomer, Eric Newcomer, joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic overtaking OpenAI in enterprise sales and what the ChatGPT company’s “doom scenario” is they head to IPO. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

OpenAI’s IPO is a move of ‘desperation’ | Ed Zitron

“We’re basically saying the tech industry will double its revenue in four years… that’s an insane poison to hold, that money needs to come from somewhere.” 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 OpenAI hasty IPO and the impossible maths behind the AI boom. 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.com For more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

AI to create more jobs than it eliminates after 2028, study reveals | Natasha Bernal

“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. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Samsung strike could derail the whole AI boom | Eli the Computer Guy

“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. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Ed Zitron: You are being lied to about the AI data center boom

“When it breaks, it’s going to be an aggressive, horrifying turn because there are no fundamentals to fall back on here.” Author of Where's Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the brewing scandal as data centres are not getting built at the rate people expect and how intentionally misleading terms are being used to obscure that reality. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.