AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
In 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 expensive, and how bad it’ll be...
15 Jul 1h 3min
Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive
In 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 memory for GPUs, and h...
10 Jul 8min
Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell
This 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 collapse of the AI bubble.Ed ...
8 Jul 59min
The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads
In 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 bets cashing out - and...
1 Jul 34min
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
