The AI Money Trap, Part Two
In part two of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how America’s economic growth has become dependent on Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta’s AI capital expenditures - and...
21 Elo 202541min
The AI Money Trap, Part One
In part one of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how AI startups’ overstuffed valuations make them impossible targets for acquisition or IPO - and how this may cause las...
20 Elo 202541min
Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks through the rough launch of GPT-5, and how ChatGPT’s fandom-like following has become a huge problem for OpenAI. The Enshittification of Generative AI: https:...
15 Elo 202511min
CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies," but as "BS" - as defined by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt in "on BS" ...
13 Elo 202557min
Monologue: The Anker Nebula X1 Is The Best Projector I've Ever Used
In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed talks about Anker’s Nebula X1, an expensive, excellent-looking and adaptable projector that can work just about anywhere. Better Offline listener deal: Get ...
8 Elo 202510min
Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White
In this episode, Ed is joined by writer and critic Molly White to talk about how RSS can purify your news experience, the challenge of the newsletter economy, and what gives her optimism for the futur...
6 Elo 202535min
Monologue: Annualized Revenues Are BS
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how and why OpenAI and Anthropic use “annualized revenues” to hide that they’re nowhere near their yearly revenue projections. https://www.theinfo...
1 Elo 20258min
Radio Better Offline: Mia Sato & Dave Lee
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.Ed Zitron is joined in studio by Mia Sato of The Verge and Dave Lee of Bloomberg to talk h...
30 Heinä 20251h 8min
