Better Offline
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Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI
Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild
The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky
Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!
Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport
Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift
Managing The Situation
Monologue: Concentration Risk
LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan
Monologue: Into The Jensenverse
No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport
Monologue: AI Hits A Wall
The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus
AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.
Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump
Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive
The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson
Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh
Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?
The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson
Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle
AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive
Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell
Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs
The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads
Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now
Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult
The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport
Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X
CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble
Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down
Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky
Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI
The AI Industry Is Losing
Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs
AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus
Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie
Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle
Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization
Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric
More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker
Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz
In a special episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by writers Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz of the New Yorker to talk about their massive investigation into Sam Altman, his ouster from OpenAI, and the consequences of trusting Silicon Valley with the future.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 - I’d be so grateful! YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. Buy our new “FUCK DATA CENTERS” shirts today! --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about the large amount of speculative data center land purchases, the brittle NVIDIA GPU economy, and the economic realities of AI. https://paulkedrosky.com/ The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbDiETo29GTIjg6Lk4imig Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 - I’d be so grateful! YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. Buy our new “FUCK DATA CENTERS” shirts today! --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail
bonusIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron breaks down why AI isn’t too big to fail, why no bailout is coming, and how people need to learn more about history before using it to justify burning billions of dollars. This week’s free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/ Premium newsletter tie-in out later today - save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. Buy our new “FUCK DATA CENTERS” shirts today! --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.