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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Episodes

LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan
Sep 01, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Caleb Wilson of Kill The Computer to talk about an academic paper on AI slop, and the many reasons why LLMS can never…
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Monologue: Into The Jensenverse
Aug 27, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the AI bubble has increasingly become Jensen Huang and NVIDIA feeding different companies money, and how NVIDIA’s revenue is mostly…
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No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport
Aug 25, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as AI…
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Monologue: AI Hits A Wall
Aug 20, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how Anthropic and OpenAI’s revenue growth is decelerating, and how OpenAI’s pause on model development and collapsing economics create…
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The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus
Aug 18, 2026
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about the increasingly-delusional promises of the AI semiconductors industry, the rotten economics of LLMs, and how…
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AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.
Aug 13, 2026
In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by comedian Chloe Radcliffe and critic Ed Ongweso Jr. to talk about AI’s attempts to interfere with the creative arts, horrible little robots, Mark…
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Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump
Aug 11, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through NVIDIA’s entirely-theoretical $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership with various asset managers, all to keep up with analyst…
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Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive
Aug 06, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI, with 7% of Microsoft’s FY26 revenue coming from…
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The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson
Aug 04, 2026
In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the recent slew of tech earnings, how analyst estimates show that 70% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s AI…
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Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?
Jul 30, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how the media deliberately ignores reality to hide how Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s cloud growth is near-entirely driven by Anthropic…
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh
Jul 28, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by writer and software engineer Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, weakening businesses and creating a culture…
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Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?
Jul 23, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how hyperscalers have wasted $1.1 trillion in capex on AI in a desperate attempt to sustain hypergrowth, and report on how without…
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The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson
Jul 21, 2026
In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the broken state of the stock market, the collapse of financial regulation, SpaceX’s post-IPO horror show, and…
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Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle
Jul 17, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how OpenAI’s collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill Oracle, and destroy…
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AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
Jul 14, 2026
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about how demand for AI GPUs helped the RAM cartel make every single consumer electronic more expensive, and how bad it’ll…
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Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive
Jul 09, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is inflating the price of memory across the board by diverting fab capacity to building high bandwidth memory for GPUs, and…
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Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell
Jul 08, 2026
This week’s Better Offline is the first joint episode with Riley, November, Hussein from TrashFuture, covering SoftBank’s crazy annual shareholder meeting and the general collapse of the AI bubble.Ed…
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Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs
Jul 02, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Meta’s plans to sell its AI compute, and how this is an admission to the grim fact that there isn’t really a reason for anyone to…
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The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads
Jun 30, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with the Wall Street Journal’s Caitlin Ostroff and Katherine Long about how Polymarket is working with influencers to show videos of fake bets cashing out -…
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Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now
Jun 25, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how organizations are freaking out after having to pay the real cost of AI tokens, and how the surge of competitive open weight…
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Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult
Jun 23, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is the pinnacle of Silicon Valley monoculture, and a monument to the cargo cult desperation of a tech industry that…
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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport
Jun 18, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about AI companies “doom trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we…
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Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X
Jun 15, 2026
In a special exclusive episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into the audited financials of OpenAI from 2024 and 2025.Companion newsletter: www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/ Save…
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CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble
Jun 09, 2026
Tech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online between 2022 and 2023, and almost every major web platform seeing a decline in growth since 2021. In this episode…
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Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down
Jun 04, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how the “does AI have ROI?” debate is coming at the worst possible time for two companies that can’t afford to slow down thanks to…
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Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky
Jun 02, 2026
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about why nobody can find the ROI of AI, why there won’t be a Dot Com Bubble-style recovery for AI data centers…
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Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI
May 28, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI’s move to token-based billing has revealed that absolutely nobody has a way of measuring AI’s ROI - and how these massive…
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The AI Industry Is Losing
May 26, 2026
In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron runs you through how Uber’s COO said the quiet part out loud - that AI’s outputs and efficacy do not match up with its ruinous costs - and how despite its…
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Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs
May 21, 2026
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Anthropic’s claims it will be non-GAAP EBITDA profitable for Q2 2026 by having SpaceX discount its compute costs, and how said…
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AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus
May 19, 2026
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s alleged GPU shipments to China, how AI is choking the PC gaming industry, and how mad Jensen Huang keeps…
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