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Monologue: What If I'm Right?
In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed considers what would happen if he’s right about the AI bubble bursting - and the consequences of three ye…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Radio Better Offline: Kyle Barr, Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of one of iHeartRadio's satellite studios in New York city. Ed is joined by Kyle…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works
In a bonus third episode, Ed Zitron reports exclusively on how OpenAI’s new "router-based" ChatGPT-5 makes it impossible for the company to cache the…
10 months ago
The AI Money Trap, Part Two
In part two of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how America’s economic growth has become dependent on Amazon, Google,…
10 months ago
The AI Money Trap, Part One
In part one of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how AI startups’ overstuffed valuations make them impossible targets …
10 months ago
Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks through the rough launch of GPT-5, and how ChatGPT’s fandom-like following has become a huge problem for Op…
10 months, 1 week ago
CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies," but as "BS" - as de…
10 months, 1 week ago
Monologue: The Anker Nebula X1 Is The Best Projector I've Ever Used
In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed talks about Anker’s Nebula X1, an expensive, excellent-looking and adaptable projector that can work just…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White
In this episode, Ed is joined by writer and critic Molly White to talk about how RSS can purify your news experience, the challenge of the newsletter…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Monologue: Annualized Revenues Are BS
In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how and why OpenAI and Anthropic use “annualized revenues” to hide that they’re nowhere near th…
10 months, 3 weeks ago