Better Offline

Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through the nonsensical, pro-AI lab scare campaign driven by former researcher Jacob Coxon, how the media keeps falling for AI safety grifts, an...

2026-09-11

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Managing The Situation

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how society continues to manage rather than deal with crises, and how the AI bubble is yet another crisis resulting from a failure to d...

2026-09-09

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Monologue: Concentration Risk

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 80% of Anthropic and OpenAI’s enterprise revenues come from the top 1% of its customers, and how the entire AI bubble is a ser...

2026-09-04

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LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Caleb Wilson of Kill The Computer to talk about an academic paper on AI slop, and the many reasons why LLMS can ...

2026-09-02

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Monologue: Into The Jensenverse

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the AI bubble has increasingly become Jensen Huang and NVIDIA feeding different companies money, and how NVIDIA’s revenue is m...

2026-08-28

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No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as A...

2026-08-26

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Monologue: AI Hits A Wall

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how Anthropic and OpenAI’s revenue growth is decelerating, and how OpenAI’s pause on model development and collapsing econom...

2026-08-21

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The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about the increasingly-delusional promises of the AI semiconductors industry, the rotten economics of LLMs, and how everythin...

2026-08-19

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AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.

In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by comedian Chloe Radcliffe and critic Ed Ongweso Jr. to talk about AI’s attempts to interfere with the creative arts, horrible little robots, Mark Zu...

2026-08-14

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Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through NVIDIA’s entirely-theoretical $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership with various asset managers, all to keep up with analyst ...

2026-08-12

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Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI, with 7% of Microsoft’s FY26 revenue com...

2026-08-07

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The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson

In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the recent slew of tech earnings, how analyst estimates show that 70% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’...

2026-08-05

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Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the media deliberately ignores reality to hide how Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s cloud growth is near-entirely driven by Anth...

2026-07-31

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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by writer and software engineer Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, weakening businesses and creating a cult...

2026-07-29

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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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