Better Offline

Better Offline

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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How Big Tech Is Losing Their Antitrust Trials feat. Jason Kint

How Big Tech Is Losing Their Antitrust Trials feat. Jason Kint

Ed Zitron is joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN, to talk about Google's recent antitrust trial losses, Meta's FTC case, and why it should give you hope for the future. YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MER...

23 Huhti 202533min

OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry

OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry

In the second part of this week’s two-part episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how OpenAI has become a systemic risk, one that may destroy CoreWeave, cost NVIDIA and Oracle billions, and break the ba...

18 Huhti 202542min

Monologue: How The Media Keeps Inflating Bubbles

Monologue: How The Media Keeps Inflating Bubbles

In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how the media's lackluster approach to critiquing the powerful led to the needless, unsustainable AI bubble - and how things could change for the ...

17 Huhti 202510min

OpenAI Cannot Survive

OpenAI Cannot Survive

In the first part of this week's two-part episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how impossible it will be for OpenAI to stay alive - and how SoftBank’s attempts to help are materially harming the compa...

16 Huhti 202540min

Monologue: OpenAI's Non-Profit Problem

Monologue: OpenAI's Non-Profit Problem

In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the precarious nature of OpenAI's non-profit status - and how a petition to the California Attorney general is an existential threat to the compan...

11 Huhti 20258min

Radio Better Offline: Allison Morrow, Paris Martineau & Ed Ongweso Jr.

Radio Better Offline: Allison Morrow, Paris Martineau & Ed Ongweso Jr.

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 Allison Morrow of CNN, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble ...

9 Huhti 20251h 25min

Monologue: OpenAI's Albatross

Monologue: OpenAI's Albatross

In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how OpenAI's new image generator has become a massive burden on the company, and how OpenAI’s melting GPUs are a bad omen for the future.Vote for ...

4 Huhti 20259min

Radio Better Offline: David "Shingy" Shing

Radio Better Offline: David "Shingy" Shing

Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by famed “digital prophet” David “Shingy” Shing, who ...

2 Huhti 20251h