Better Offline

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

Scarica

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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The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil

On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by the hosts of the Ben & Emil show to talk about how the markets have been driven insane by semiconductor buzz and social media hysteria. ...

2026-05-13

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

This week’s Better Offline is a recording of a panel held by Clarion West in Seattle earlier this year with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron, discussing enshittification, The Rot Economy, and the des...

2026-05-06

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Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70-80% of Amazon and Microsoft’s AI revenue and capacity is taken up by OpenAI and Anthropic, and how capacity constraints acr...

2026-05-01

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Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC

On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into Palantir’s 22-point manifesto with Caleb and June from Kill The Computer. The Manifesto: https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573...

2026-04-29

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Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how OpenAI must grow its revenue by 1000% in the next three years and raise at least another $200 billion for it to be able to pay its c...

2026-04-24

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport to talk about the Claude Mythos marketing scam, the lies around AI job loss, and why LLMs shouldn...

2026-04-22

Scarica

Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron discusses how AI labs’ dangerous rhetoric around AI capabilities and job loss are antagonizing and terrifying people that are already on edge, ...

2026-04-17

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More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to talk about introspection-free venture capital, the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse effect of LLMs, an...

2026-04-15

Scarica

Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz

In a special episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by writers Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz of the New Yorker to talk about their massive investigation into Sam Altman, his ouster from Open...

2026-04-09

Scarica

The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about the large amount of speculative data center land purchases, the brittle NVIDIA GPU economy, and the ec...

2026-04-07

Scarica

Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron breaks down why AI isn’t too big to fail, why no bailout is coming, and how people need to learn more about history before using it to justify ...

2026-04-03

Scarica

Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron discusses Anthropic’s aggressive new rate limits, the leak of Claude Code’s source code, and the dread consequences of having software writte...

2026-04-01

Scarica

Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about OpenAI killing Sora, and how the majority of announced data centers are either barely getting built or vaporware, with only 3GW of IT loa...

2026-03-27

Scarica

NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s strange and embarrassing GTC, DLSS5, and the increasingly-hysterical AI bubble. Free newsle...

2026-03-25

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Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about hyperscalers allowing non-technical workers to ship code, and how the over-reliance on LLMs and push to ship as much code as possible is ...

2026-03-20

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Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor of Barron’s to talk about the legalities of prediction markets, their effect on society, and how everyone is ...

2026-03-18

Scarica

Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the end of tech’s hypergrowth era, generative AI’s failure as a business model, and why we need to stop looking to the past t...

2026-03-13

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