Better Offline

How The AI Bubble Bursts

After a year of opulent spending, the markets have begun to sour on big tech's $200 billion bet on generative AI, unfortunately timing with the delay of Nvidia's new AI-specialized "blackwell" chips. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the pale horses of the AI apocalypse - and what this means for the tech industry at large. LINKS: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks">http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks</a>  Newsletter: <a href="wheresyoured.at ">wheresyoured.at </a> Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline</a>  Discord: <a href="chat.wheresyoured.at ">chat.wheresyoured.at  </a> Ed's Socials - <a href="http://www.twitter.com/edzitron">http://www.twitter.com/edzitron</a>  <a href="instagram.com/edzitron ">instagram.com/edzitron </a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social </a> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@edzitron">https://www.threads.net/@edzitron</a>   See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.