Monologue: OpenAI and NVIDIA's Deal Is BS
Better Offline26 Syys 2025

Monologue: OpenAI and NVIDIA's Deal Is BS

In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through NVIDIA and OpenAI’s nonsense deal, and how OpenAI now needs $600 billion in the next four years to survive.

OpenAI and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10 Gigawatts of NVIDIA Systems
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/openai-and-nvidia-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deploy-10gw-of-nvidia-systems

New York Times - OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.
https://archive.is/vUf0t

The Information - In OpenAI Megadeal, Nvidia Discusses a New Business Model: Chip Leasing
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-megadeal-nvidia-discusses-new-business-model-chip-leasing?rc=kz8jh3

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jaksot(214)

Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler

Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by 404 Media's Jason Koebler to talk about the state of both the tech industry and the tech media, and how 404 Media has built a worker-owned outlet that genuinely...

18 Joulu 202458min

Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick

Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick

Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by Ryan Barwick of Marketing Brew to talk about how the entire tech ecosystem is controlled by ads - and whether companies like OpenAI and Perplexity can hope to plug the...

11 Joulu 202441min

The Coming Generative AIPocalypse

The Coming Generative AIPocalypse

We're approaching the end of the line for generative AI as big tech realizes that spending $200bn on chips and data centers isn't going to create any good products. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks yo...

6 Joulu 202431min

Yep, We're At Peak AI

Yep, We're At Peak AI

In this episode, Ed Zitron discusses big tech's discovery of the diminishing returns in training generative AI models - and how we may have finally have reached peak AI. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl...

4 Joulu 202419min

CZM Rewind: The Man That Destroyed Google Search

CZM Rewind: The Man That Destroyed Google Search

In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 bega...

27 Marras 202431min

The Rot Society

The Rot Society

Blame the tech industry for the rise of authoritarianism. Blame a news media handicapped by a deference to power and a fear of bias. Blame the fact that our digital lives are unchecked ecological disa...

20 Marras 202438min

William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech

William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech

Recorded live at Web Summit Lisbon, Ed Zitron is joined by William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, who is also the co-founder and president of the Academi...

13 Marras 202453min

The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick

The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Mike Masnick, CEO and Founder of Techdirt, inventor of the Streisand effect, and member of the board of Bluesky to...well...talk about quite literally that. A b...

6 Marras 202454min