Better Offline
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| Date | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts |
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| Oct 1 | #22 | #13 | #26 |
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Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI
September 30, 2026 · 8 minIn this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse business than OpenAI.Dead Money: https://www.w…
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Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild
September 25, 2026 · 11 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how $200bn to $300bn of AI GPUs are sitting in warehouses, how hyperscalers like Microsoft are overstating their AI capacity, and why the AI data center overbuild is magntiudes…
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The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky
September 23, 2026 · 55 minIn this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about how AI is distorting the bond markets to the point that it’s changing the price on US Treasuries, how AI data center economics don’t make sense…
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Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!
September 18, 2026 · 8 minIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron delivers a simple message: if Dario Amodei truly believes that Anthropic is building dangerous AI, he should stop any and all cybersecurity model training runs, halt his IPO, limit Claude…
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Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport
September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minEd Zitron is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport and journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI is driven by a religious cult of effective…
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Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift
September 11, 2026 · 16 minIn 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, and how dangerous AI is already in the…
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Managing The Situation
September 9, 2026 · 17 minIn 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 deal with the complexity of the real world…
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Monologue: Concentration Risk
September 4, 2026 · 10 minIn 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 series of different concentration risks…