Better Offline podcast

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Better Offline

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.

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.

 

#276

Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI

In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, ... more

18 hrs Ago

07 MINS

07:52

18 hrs Ago


#275

Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how $200bn to $300bn of AI ... more

25 Sep 2026

10 MINS

10:42

25 Sep 2026


#274

The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to tal... more

23 Sep 2026

54 MINS

54:38

23 Sep 2026


#273

Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron delivers a simple message: if Dario Amo... more

18 Sep 2026

08 MINS

08:10

18 Sep 2026


#272

Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport

Ed Zitron is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport and journalist an... more

16 Sep 2026

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:51

16 Sep 2026


#271

Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through the nonsensical, pro-AI la... more

11 Sep 2026

16 MINS

16:25

11 Sep 2026


#270

Managing The Situation

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how society continues to ... more

09 Sep 2026

17 MINS

17:13

09 Sep 2026


#269

Monologue: Concentration Risk

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 80% of Anthropic and O... more

04 Sep 2026

10 MINS

10:26

04 Sep 2026


#268

LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Ca... more

02 Sep 2026

42 MINS

42:55

02 Sep 2026


#267

Monologue: Into The Jensenverse

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the AI bubble has incr... more

28 Aug 2026

08 MINS

08:57

28 Aug 2026


#266

No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer C... more

26 Aug 2026

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:27

26 Aug 2026


#265

Monologue: AI Hits A Wall

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how Anthropic and OpenAI&r... more

21 Aug 2026

09 MINS

09:58

21 Aug 2026


#264

The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about the incre... more

19 Aug 2026

44 MINS

44:51

19 Aug 2026


#263

AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.

In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by comedian Chloe Radcliffe and critic Ed Ongw... more

14 Aug 2026

45 MINS

45:15

14 Aug 2026


#262

Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through NVIDIA’s entirely-th... more

12 Aug 2026

11 MINS

11:17

12 Aug 2026


#261

Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70% of Microsoft, Goog... more

07 Aug 2026

16 MINS

16:36

07 Aug 2026