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The Coming Generative AIPocalypse
We're approaching the end of the line for generative AI as big tech realizes that spending $200bn on chips and data centers isn't going to create any…
1 year, 6 months ago
Yep, We're At Peak AI
In this episode, Ed Zitron discusses big tech's discovery of the diminishing returns in training generative AI models - and how we may have finally h…
1 year, 6 months ago
CZM Rewind: The Man That Destroyed Google Search
In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run G…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Rot Society
Blame the tech industry for the rise of authoritarianism. Blame a news media handicapped by a deference to power and a fear of bias. Blame the fact t…
1 year, 7 months ago
William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech
Recorded live at Web Summit Lisbon, Ed Zitron is joined by William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, who …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Mike Masnick, CEO and Founder of Techdirt, inventor of the Streisand effect, and member of the board of Blues…
1 year, 7 months ago
A Nobel Economist's Plan To Tax Digital Ads
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Daron Acemoglu, MIT Economist and recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, to talk about his daring - a…
1 year, 7 months ago
A Requiem for Prabhakar Raghavan
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan, The Man Who Destroyed Google Search, was removed from his position at Google and made a "Chief Technologist," benching…
1 year, 8 months ago
Data Vampires with Paris Marx
In this episode, Ed is joined by Paris Marx, author of the Disconnect Blog and the host of Tech Won't Save Us, to talk about the historic - and horri…
1 year, 8 months ago
Zephyr Teachout On Corruption
In this episode, Ed is joined in the iHeartRadio studios in New York City by Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law Professor and Author of "Break 'Em Up: Reco…
1 year, 8 months ago