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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.
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- Todaysolo6 min4-min read
Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down
Ed Zitron’s AI bubble thesis has come true: companies are now reeling from the real cost of AI token-based billing, exposing a lack of return on investment after years of subsidized spending. With OpenAI and Anthropic burning billions and growth stalling, the industry can’t slow down — but reality is catching up. The era of unchecked AI spending is ending, and the promised revolution has failed to deliver tangible value, leaving investors, enterprises, and developers questioning what, if anything, generative AI actually improves.
- 2 days agoconversational47 min6-min read
Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky
The episode explores the growing economic and structural cracks in the AI industry, focusing on unsustainable costs, misleading financial reporting, and the illusion of productivity gains. Host Ed Zitron and guest Paul Kedrosky dissect how AI’s token-based pricing, runaway capital expenditures, and flawed economic assumptions are setting the stage for a potential collapse.
- 1 weeks agosolo11 min3-min read
Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI
The AI industry is in chaos because companies have spent hundreds of millions—some half a billion dollars—on AI tokens without any way to measure return on investment (ROI), thanks to years of subsidized pricing that let executives ignore costs. Now that token-based billing is here, nobody knows what anything costs or whether AI is actually helping their business. The entire enterprise AI boom, hailed as a revolution, is collapsing under the weight of its own financial absurdity, with no metrics, no accountability, and no plan—just a mountain of burned cash and executive denial.
- 1 weeks agosolo19 min4-min read
The AI Industry Is Losing
Ed Zitron declares victory after Uber’s COO Andrew McDonald admitted that AI costs are becoming impossible to justify, confirming Zitron’s years-long argument that AI’s economic model is fundamentally broken. The moment companies pay real token costs instead of subsidized access, the lack of return on investment becomes undeniable, exposing AI as a costly illusion sustained by hype, delusion, and venture capital welfare.
- 2 weeks agosolo13 min4-min read
Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs
Anthropic’s reported Q2 2026 operating profit of $559 million is almost certainly an artifact of temporarily suppressed costs through a discounted compute deal with SpaceX, not a shift in its underlying economic model. The timing—coinciding with a funding round and Nvidia’s earnings—suggests a deliberate, media-savvy effort to project profitability without changing the fundamental reality: AI inference costs scale linearly with revenue, and Anthropic’s numbers are being massaged to fit a narrative.
- 2 weeks agoconversational50 min5-min read
AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus
Ed Zitron and Steve Burke of Gamers Nexus dive into Jensen Huang’s increasingly erratic public behavior, the fragility of Nvidia’s AI-driven dominance, and the collateral damage across the PC industry — all while questioning whether the AI bubble is about to burst under the weight of unrealistic infrastructure demands and market distortions.
- 3 weeks agosolo22 min5-min read
Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
Ed Zitron argues that the AI industry is in a speculative bubble fueled by opaque financial reporting, unrealistic growth claims, and a lack of tangible product impact, with companies like OpenAI and Anthropic raising tens of billions without clear paths to profitability or operational transparency. He contends that the infrastructure promised — particularly data centers — is not being completed, and that the economic returns from AI remain unproven, while software quality across the tech industry has deteriorated due to overreliance on unreliable LLM coding tools.
- 3 weeks agoconversational55 min5-min read
The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
Ed Zitron hosts finance podcasters Ben Emil and a guest (implied co-host of Better and a Meal) to dissect the surreal, Twitter-driven frenzy overtaking modern markets, where momentum, meme culture, and retail speculation have replaced fundamentals, creating a volatile ecosystem that feels more like crypto gambling than investing.
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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.
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