Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now
In 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 competitive open weight mode...
26 Jun 23min
Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult
In 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 industry that celebrate...
24 Jun 8min
The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport
In 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 computers, and how we ne...
19 Jun 1h 2min
Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X
In a special exclusive episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into the audited financials of OpenAI from 2024 and 2025.Companion newsletter: www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/ Save $1...
16 Jun 4min
CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble
Tech'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 2021. In this episode, ...
10 Jun 30min
Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down
In 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 slow down thanks to t...
5 Jun 6min
Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky
In 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 for AI data centers, a...
3 Jun 47min
Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI
In 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 how these massive cos...
29 Mai 11min
