Better Offline
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JensenGate and Anthropic's IPO w/ Ed Elson
JensenGate and Anthropic's IPO w/ Ed Elson
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Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.
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- JensenGate and Anthropic's IPO w/ Ed Elson · 1 h 3 minIn this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the Anthropic IPO, the mid-terms, hauling fraudsters in front of congress, and Jensen…
- Monologue: The Future Is Ours · 10 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how the Blue Wave is an ill omen for the AI trade, and how we can build a better future by fighting for…
- Gambling Is Eating The World w/ Nick Devor · 39 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Nick Devor of Barron’s to talk about how gambling is poisoning everything, how legislation is struggling to keep up, and the damage…
- The Truth About Data Centers w/ Paris Marx · 54 minIn this episode, Ed is joined by Paris Marx, author of the new data center book “Hyperscale,” to talk about the AI buildout, the community groundswell against data centers, and…
- Monologue: Amazon Is Warehousing Billions In GPUs · 11 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how Amazon is warehousing billions of dollars of GPUs, and how NVIDIA created an artificial supply chain…
- The Mind of Larry Ellison w/ Tom Dotan · 1 h 1 minIn this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by writer Tom Dotan to talk about the life of Larry Ellison, his children, his companies, his decades of existential crises…
- Monologue: Anthropic Slows Down · 14 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how Anthropic’s big Q3 revenues underwhelmed an already-nervous market, and how the more of the real numbers we…
- The Hater's Guide To Bonds With Rob Wigglesworth · 42 minIn this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Robin Wigglesworth of the Financial Times to explain how both corporate and sovereign bonds work, why you should care, and…
- Monologue: Australia's Dodgiest AI IPO Is A Pale Horse · 10 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the brittle state of Australian AI data center company Firmus’ IPO, its dodgy underlying numbers, and how the…
- "Cycular" Financing w/ GamersNexus · 50 minIn this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s “cycular” financing, Trump’s “superintelligence” accord, the growing bubble in the…
- Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden · 7 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about Anthropic’s $413 billion in non-cancellable compute commitments, and how its future depends on the impossible task…
- Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI · 8 minIn this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse…
- Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild · 11 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how $200bn to $300bn of AI GPUs are sitting in warehouses, how hyperscalers like Microsoft are overstating their AI…
- The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky · 55 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about how AI is distorting the bond markets to the point that it’s changing the price on US…
- Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario! · 8 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron delivers a simple message: if Dario Amodei truly believes that Anthropic is building dangerous AI, he should stop any and all…
- Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport · 1 h 5 minEd Zitron is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport and journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to get the word out that the narrative about existential…
- Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift · 16 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through the nonsensical, pro-AI lab scare campaign driven by former researcher Jacob Coxon, how the media keeps falling…
- Managing The Situation · 17 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how society continues to manage rather than deal with crises, and how the AI bubble is yet another crisis resulting…
- Monologue: Concentration Risk · 10 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 80% of Anthropic and OpenAI’s enterprise revenues come from the top 1% of its customers, and how the entire AI…
- LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan · 43 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Caleb Wilson of Kill The Computer to talk about an academic paper on AI slop, and the many…
- Monologue: Into The Jensenverse · 9 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the AI bubble has increasingly become Jensen Huang and NVIDIA feeding different companies money, and how…
- No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport · 1 h 5 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop…
- Monologue: AI Hits A Wall · 10 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how Anthropic and OpenAI’s revenue growth is decelerating, and how OpenAI’s pause on model development and…
- The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus · 45 minIn this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about the increasingly-delusional promises of the AI semiconductors industry, the rotten economics of…
- AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr. · 45 minIn this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by comedian Chloe Radcliffe and critic Ed Ongweso Jr. to talk about AI’s attempts to interfere with the creative arts, horrible little…
- Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump · 11 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through NVIDIA’s entirely-theoretical $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership with various asset managers, all to keep…
- Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive · 17 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI, with 7% of Microsoft’s FY26…
- The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson · 54 minIn this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the recent slew of tech earnings, how analyst estimates show that 70% of Microsoft, Google…
- Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer? · 13 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the media deliberately ignores reality to hide how Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s cloud growth is…
- AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh · 59 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by writer and software engineer Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, weakening businesses and…
- Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing? · 10 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how hyperscalers have wasted $1.1 trillion in capex on AI in a desperate attempt to sustain hypergrowth, and…
- The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson · 59 minIn this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the broken state of the stock market, the collapse of financial regulation, SpaceX’s…
- Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle · 15 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how OpenAI’s collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill…
- AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus) · 1 h 3 minIn this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about how demand for AI GPUs helped the RAM cartel make every single consumer electronic more…
- Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive · 8 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is inflating the price of memory across the board by diverting fab capacity to building high bandwidth…
- Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell · 59 minThis week’s Better Offline is the first joint episode with Riley, November, Hussein from TrashFuture, covering SoftBank’s crazy annual shareholder meeting and the general…
- Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs · 6 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Meta’s plans to sell its AI compute, and how this is an admission to the grim fact that there isn’t really a…
- The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads · 35 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with the Wall Street Journal’s Caitlin Ostroff and Katherine Long about how Polymarket is working with influencers to show videos of fake…
- Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now · 24 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how organizations are freaking out after having to pay the real cost of AI tokens, and how the surge of…
- Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult · 9 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is the pinnacle of Silicon Valley monoculture, and a monument to the cargo cult desperation of a tech…
- The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport · 1 h 2 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about AI companies “doom trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious…
- Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X · 4 minIn a special exclusive episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into the audited financials of OpenAI from 2024 and 2025. Companion newsletter…
- CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble · 31 minTech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online between 2022 and 2023, and almost every major web platform seeing a decline in growth since…
- Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down · 6 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how the “does AI have ROI?” debate is coming at the worst possible time for two companies that can’t afford to…
- Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky · 47 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about why nobody can find the ROI of AI, why there won’t be a Dot Com Bubble-style recovery…
- Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI · 12 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI’s move to token-based billing has revealed that absolutely nobody has a way of measuring AI’s ROI - and…
- The AI Industry Is Losing · 19 minIn this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron runs you through how Uber’s COO said the quiet part out loud - that AI’s outputs and efficacy do not match up with its ruinous costs…
- Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs · 13 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Anthropic’s claims it will be non-GAAP EBITDA profitable for Q2 2026 by having SpaceX discount its compute…
- AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus · 50 minIn this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s alleged GPU shipments to China, how AI is choking the PC gaming industry, and how mad…
- Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak · 22 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how LLMs and the obsession with AI is actively destroying the fabric of the tech industry. Please subscribe…
