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Better Offline
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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…
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74%Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive
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69%The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson
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64%Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?
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67%AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh
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68%Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?
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68%The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson
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73%Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle
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76%AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
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65%Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive
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71%Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell
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69%Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs
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61%The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads
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59%Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now
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65%Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult
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66%The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport
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72%Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X
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68%CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble
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68%Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down
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67%Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky
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66%Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI
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61%The AI Industry Is Losing
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59%Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs
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73%AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus
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73%Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
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60%The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
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62%CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
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62%Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie
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60%Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
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64%Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle
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59%Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization
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62%Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric
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77%More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker
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66%Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz
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63%The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky
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69%Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail
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67%Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?
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73%Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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64%NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus
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74%Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech
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65%Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor
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64%Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History
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71%Hater Season: Henry Zebrowski
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58%Hater Season: Corey Quinn
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57%Monologue: Analyslop And The Death of Critical Thinking
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65%Hater Season: Victoria Song & Alex Cranz
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59%Monologue: AI Isn't Replacing Software Companies, Calm Down About Claude Code
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73%Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan
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57%Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming
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73%Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting
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60%Monologue: Is Oracle Screwed?
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63%Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard
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76%AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Four
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62%AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three
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74%AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two
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65%AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One
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59%Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff
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66%The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four
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61%The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three
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70%The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two
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68%The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One
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70%Monologue: The Year Ahead
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59%The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke
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75%CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue)
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70%CES 2026: Part Nine (Friday)
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61%CES 2026: Part Eight (Friday)
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64%CES 2026: Part Seven (Thursday)
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58%CES 2026: Part Six (Thursday)
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72%CES 2026: Part Five (Wednesday)
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71%CES 2026: Part Four (Wednesday)
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57%CES 2026: Part Three (Tuesday)
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69%CES 2026: Part Two (Tuesday)
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73%CES 2026: Part One (Monday)
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70%CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4)
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71%CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3)
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65%CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2)
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57%CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
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62%Part Three: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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60%Part Two: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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71%Part One: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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62%Monologue: The Questions I'm Asking
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64%The State of Consumer Tech with Lisa Eadicicco
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65%The State of the Games Industry with Nathan Grayson
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71%Monologue: AI Isn't Getting A Bailout
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74%Is Valve Taking On Microsoft? with Steve Burke
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67%A Thanksgiving Monologue
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66%CZM Rewind: The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown
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66%What People Actually Use ChatGPT For With Gerrit De Vynck
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71%Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference And Its MSFT Revenue Share
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57%Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
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67%Monologue: AI's Desperation Era
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58%Vibe Coding is BS w/ Charlie Meyer
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72%Monologue: Dealing With The Weight Of History
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72%The Internet Is The World's Worst Pharmacy w/ Paris Martineau & Ashwin Rodrigues
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70%Monologue: Don't Be Scared Of Sora
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59%Exclusive: Here's How Much Anthropic Spends on AWS
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77%Monologue: ChatGPT's Growth Is Collapsing In Europe
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71%The Interview: Steve Burke of GamersNexus
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71%The World of AI Regulation with Brian Merchant
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62%Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth
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73%The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4)
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71%The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3)
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71%The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2)
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71%The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
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68%Monologue: OpenAI and NVIDIA's Deal Is BS
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71%Radio Better Offline: Adam Becker
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60%AI Isn't Making Engineers 10x As Productive with Colton Voege
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66%Radio Better Offline: Edward Ongweso Jr. & Allison Morrow
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61%How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Three
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73%How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Two
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65%How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part One
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71%Monologue: Tech Skepticism Is Going Mainstream
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60%The Black Market for AI GPUs with Steve Burke
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74%Monologue: What If I'm Right?
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70%Radio Better Offline: Kyle Barr, Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher
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65%Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works
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64%The AI Money Trap, Part Two
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64%The AI Money Trap, Part One
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58%Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5
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62%CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
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64%Monologue: The Anker Nebula X1 Is The Best Projector I've Ever Used
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74%Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White
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69%Monologue: Annualized Revenues Are BS
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70%Radio Better Offline: Mia Sato & Dave Lee
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78%The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 3
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71%The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt, 2
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73%The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 1
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68%Monologue: The Updated Pale Horses of the AIpocalypse
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75%Radio Better Offline: Brian Koppelman, Cherlynn Low & Mike Drucker
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62%Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 2
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77%Monologue: Is Anthropic Killing Cursor?
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63%Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 1
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64%Monologue: You Should Get Into Vinyl
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70%Radio Better Offline: Gare Davis, Victoria Song, Allison Morrow
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68%Monologue: Did OpenAI Steal Another Startup's Idea?
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57%NVIDIA Vs. The Media ft. GamersNexus
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71%Monologue: OpenAI Vs. Microsoft
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69%Radio Better Offline: Pablo Torre and David Roth
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59%The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 3
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66%The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 2
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59%The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 1
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63%Monologue: The AI Job Loss Con
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62%The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown
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56%Monologue: Don't Buy A Switch 2, Get A Handheld Gaming PC
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66%The Better Offline Mailbag
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69%Monologue: Jony Ive and OpenAI's New BS Machine
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75%Saving Games Journalism With Giant Bomb
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65%Monologue: How Better Offline Saved Me
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69%Empires of AI With Karen Hao
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74%Monologue: Sam Altman's BS Eye Scanning Startup
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57%Tariffs and The End Of Affordable Computing w/ Steve Burke
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70%I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore
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61%Monologue: Why We Need Tech Criticism More Than Ever
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74%The BS Bubble
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70%Monologue: The Tech I Actually Like
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63%How Big Tech Is Losing Their Antitrust Trials feat. Jason Kint
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71%OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
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72%Monologue: How The Media Keeps Inflating Bubbles
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66%OpenAI Cannot Survive
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66%Monologue: OpenAI's Non-Profit Problem
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68%Radio Better Offline: Allison Morrow, Paris Martineau & Ed Ongweso Jr.
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72%Monologue: OpenAI's Albatross
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67%Radio Better Offline: David "Shingy" Shing
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71%Monologue: High Noon for CoreWeave & AI
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64%Radio Better Offline: Andy Richter
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64%Monologue: We Need To Talk About CoreWeave
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78%Radio Better Offline: Cherlynn Low, Alex Cranz & Victoria Song
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58%SoftBank and OpenAI's Dangerous Game
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63%Monologue: How Does This End?
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70%Microsoft Cuts The Power To AI
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71%Monologue: OpenAI Is Getting Desperate
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68%How Growth Is Killing Video Games
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66%Generative AI Is Not A Real Industry
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67%Monologue: What Bursts A Bubble?
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62%OpenAI Is Not A Real Company
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62%What We're Fighting For
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78%Monologue: OpenAI Was Never A Non-Profit
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71%How The Tech Media Can Beat The Rot Economy
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55%Monologue: The Super Bowl Showed That Generative AI Is Washed
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68%How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society
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67%Monologue: What Happened With DeepSeek?
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66%How DeepSeek Showed That Silicon Valley Is Washed
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68%What The Hell Is DeepSeek?
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64%Radio Better Offline: Jeremy Kaplowitz of the Quorators
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60%The Slop Society
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56%Facebook Was Already Zucked
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65%Radio Better Offline: Paris Martineau, Jeff Jarvis
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63%Better Offline CES 2025: Day 6 - Epilogue
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61%Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 2
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60%Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 1
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56%Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 2
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59%Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 1
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74%Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 2
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61%Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 1
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66%Better Offline CES 2025: Day 2
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68%Better Offline CES 2025: Day 1
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65%The Invisible War Criminals
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64%The Invisible War
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56%FTC Chair Lina Khan: The Better Offline Interview
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70%CZM Rewind: Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher
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66%Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler
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63%Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick
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60%The Coming Generative AIPocalypse
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57%Yep, We're At Peak AI
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59%CZM Rewind: The Man That Destroyed Google Search
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61%The Rot Society
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72%William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech
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57%The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick
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61%A Nobel Economist's Plan To Tax Digital Ads
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69%A Requiem for Prabhakar Raghavan
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75%Data Vampires with Paris Marx
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63%Zephyr Teachout On Corruption
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63%The Subprime AI Crisis
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66%Why OpenAI Is A Terrible Business
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65%The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 4
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61%How To Break the Internet with Chris Stokel-Walker
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63%The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 3
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67%The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 2
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68%Silicon Valley Fashion With The Menswear Guy
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69%The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 1
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61%How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions
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68%How Monopolies Are Making Tech Worse
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64%Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies
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60%Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain
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60%Big Tech Is The Enemy of Innovation
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64%How The AI Bubble Bursts
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74%Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant
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66%The State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike Isaac
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73%Rot Economics with MIT's Daron Acemoglu
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69%CrowdStruck
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72%The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
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73%Pop Culture
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71%How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry
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70%The Shareholder Supremacy
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65%I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Ft. Nik Suresh & Robert Evans
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77%Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz and Michael Fisher
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74%The Onion Knight Ft. Ben Collins
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72%Let Tim Cook
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65%Sam Altman Is Dangerous To Silicon Valley
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75%The Talented Mr. Altman
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75%The Rot-Com Bust
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59%The Rot-Com Bubble
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70%AI Is Breaking Google
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71%We're Watching Facebook Die
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59%How Mark Zuckerberg Deliberately Made Facebook Worse
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60%OpenAI's Video Generating AI Is Dead On Arrival
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60%Enron Musk Ft. Ed Niedermeyer
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69%The Cult of Failing Upwards
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72%The Man That Destroyed Google Search
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57%How Managers Are Breaking The Internet
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60%How A Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Went Viral ft. Louise Matsakis and Tianyu Fang
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73%The AI Bubble Is Bursting
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62%Are We At Peak AI?
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69%Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left ft. Molly White
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76%Rich Idiots Are Killing The Media To Please The Tech Industry
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63%How Growth Is Killing Tech's Innovation, ft. Robert Evans
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73%Musk's Uncharitable Charity ft. David Fahrenthold
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73%The Metaverse: How Mark Zuckerberg Lied To The World
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70%How The Winklevoss Twins Lost A Billion Dollars
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66%The Rot Economy ft Robert Evans
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66%An Autopsy of Apple's Vision Pro
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