Épisodes

  • Monologue: What Happened With DeepSeek?
    Feb 6 2025

    In the first of a new series of weekly monologues, Ed Zitron breaks down what exactly happened with DeepSeek, and how it threatens to pop the AI bubble.

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    10 min
  • How DeepSeek Showed That Silicon Valley Is Washed
    Feb 3 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron explains how the emergence of a much-more-efficient generative AI model has become an existential threat to the future of OpenAI and Anthropic - and tells a dark story about the death of innovation in Silicon Valley.

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    42 min
  • What The Hell Is DeepSeek?
    Jan 31 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron explains how DeepSeek, a relatively-unknown Chinese model AI developer incubated in a hedge fund, has punctured the generative AI bubble, throwing the US startup scene (and markets) into disarray.

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    33 min
  • Radio Better Offline: Jeremy Kaplowitz of the Quorators
    Jan 29 2025

    Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.

    Ed Zitron is joined by Jeremy Kaplowitz of the podcast Quorators to talk about Quora, which he describes as “Reddit with a gas leak.”

    www.youtube.com/@Quorators

    www.patreon.com/Quorators

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    46 min
  • The Slop Society
    Jan 24 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how lax regulation and all-too-chummy media coverage has empowered Mark Zuckerberg and other tech companies to intentionally make every digital experience worse for profit.

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    42 min
  • Facebook Was Already Zucked
    Jan 22 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the latest "right-wing turn" for Mark Zuckerberg and Meta is really just formalizing policies on Facebook and Instagram that actively protected and elevated right-wing voices - and how we're entering a new era of rot for two of the world's largest social networks.

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    36 min
  • Radio Better Offline: Paris Martineau, Jeff Jarvis
    Jan 15 2025

    Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.

    Ed Zitron is joined by Paris Martineau of The Information and media critic Jeff Jarvis to talk about Paris' story around the horrible consequences of an anonymous dating app, Meta's slop-filled right-wing future, and what the media industry might look like in ten years' time.

    Jeff Jarvis: https://jeffjarvis.com/
    https://bsky.app/profile/jeffjarvis.bsky.social

    Paris Martineau: https://bsky.app/profile/paris.nyc
    Paris' story she talks about: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-a-casual-sex-website-left-the-door-open-to-teens

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    1 h et 25 min
  • Better Offline CES 2025: Day 6 - Epilogue
    Jan 12 2025

    Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor.

    Phil Broughton and Ed Ongweso Jr. join Ed Zitron for an epilogue on the Consumer Electronics Show and the 12+ hours of audio we've recorded - and what we're planning to do next.

    Ed Ongweso Jr.: https://bsky.app/profile/bigblackjacobin.bsky.social
    The Tech Bubble Newsletter: https://thetechbubble.substack.com/
    Phillip Broughton: https://bsky.app/profile/funranium.bsky.social
    https://www.funraniumlabs.com/

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    1 h et 4 min