Better Offline

Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how hyperscalers have wasted $1.1 trillion in capex on AI in a desperate attempt to sustain hypergrowth, and report on how without OpenA...

2026-07-24

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The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson

In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the broken state of the stock market, the collapse of financial regulation, SpaceX’s post-IPO horror s...

2026-07-22

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Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how OpenAI’s collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill Oracle, and des...

2026-07-18

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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&rsquo...

2026-07-15

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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...

2026-07-10

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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 A...

2026-07-09

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Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Meta’s plans to sell its AI compute, and how this is an admission to the grim fact that there isn’t really a reason for ...

2026-07-03

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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 cashi...

2026-07-01

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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...

2026-06-26

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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...

2026-06-24

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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 comput...

2026-06-19

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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/ ...

2026-06-16

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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, ...

2026-06-10

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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 slo...

2026-06-05

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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 dat...

2026-06-03

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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...

2026-05-29

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The AI Industry Is Losing

In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron runs you through how Uber’s COO said the quiet part out loud - that AI’s outputs and efficacy do not match up with its ruinous costs - and how desp...

2026-05-27

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Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Anthropic’s claims it will be non-GAAP EBITDA profitable for Q2 2026 by having SpaceX discount its compute costs, and how said...

2026-05-22

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AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s alleged GPU shipments to China, how AI is choking the PC gaming industry, and how mad Jensen Huang keeps...

2026-05-20

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Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how LLMs and the obsession with AI is actively destroying the fabric of the tech industry. Please subscribe to my premium newslette...

2026-05-15

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