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Better Offline
277 episodes · 20 with AI analysis
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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Circular Financing Between Hyperscalers and AI Labs×2Nvidia $500 billion AI infrastructure financing announcementCircular financing in AI GPU supply chainsMemorandums of understanding vs. binding contracts in AI dealsNvidia analyst revenue expectations and growth targetsJensen Huang's history of overstated public commitmentsStargate AI infrastructure initiative credibilityOpenAI financial health and internal stock buybackCore Weave debt financing modelAI demand concentration risk among hyperscalers
Analyzed Episodes
Aug 12, 2026
Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump
Nvidia $500 billion AI infrastructure financing announcementCircular financing in AI GPU supply chainsMemorandums of understanding vs. binding contracts in AI deals
View AnalysisAug 7, 2026
Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive
AI Revenue Concentration Risk at HyperscalersOpenAI Financial Sustainability and RunwayAnthropic Financial Sustainability and Debt Structures
View AnalysisAug 5, 2026
The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson
Big Tech Q2 Earnings Analysis and DistortionCircular Financing Between Hyperscalers and AI LabsOpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Concentration Risk
View AnalysisJul 31, 2026
Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?
AI Bubble Financial Risk AssessmentMicrosoft Azure Revenue Inflation via OpenAI Compute SpendMeta Q2 2025 Earnings and AI CapEx Justification
View AnalysisJul 29, 2026
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh
AI project failure rates in enterprise settingsCorporate groupthink and AI-driven decision-making dysfunctionLLM limitations in enterprise database querying and information retrieval
View AnalysisJul 24, 2026
Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?
Hyperscaler AI CapEx spending and ROI analysisGoogle Cloud revenue attribution to AnthropicMicrosoft Azure dependency on OpenAI revenue
View AnalysisJul 22, 2026
The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson
SpaceX IPO valuation and financial fundamentalsWall Street underwriter conflicts of interest in equity researchGlobal Research Analyst Settlement termination by SEC (December 2025)
View AnalysisJul 17, 2026
Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle
OpenAI IPO risk and systemic financial exposureSoftBank liquidity crisis and debt maturity timelineOracle-OpenAI $300B Stargate data center contract
View AnalysisJul 15, 2026
AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
DRAM and HBM pricing dynamicsMemory manufacturer market concentration and antitrustHigh-bandwidth memory manufacturing and yields
View AnalysisJul 8, 2026
Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell
SoftBank investor presentation analysis and goose metaphor critiqueMasayoshi Son AI obsession and ChatGPT dependencyOpenAI IPO valuation challenges and $1 trillion target
View AnalysisJul 1, 2026
The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads
Polymarket deceptive influencer marketing campaignFake replica websites used for fraudulent ad contentCFTC investigation into Polymarket
View AnalysisJul 3, 2026
Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs
Meta GPU overcapacity and cloud infrastructure monetisationNvidia financial backstops to GPU cloud providersGenerative AI business model viability
View AnalysisMay 15, 2026
Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
AI Industry Financial Transparency and Accounting PracticesData Center Construction and Capacity BottlenecksLLM Code Generation Quality and Software Engineering Impact
View AnalysisMay 13, 2026
The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
Finance Twitter as market-moving hive mind and sentiment indicatorRetail investor coordination and momentum-driven trading replacing fundamental analysisKorean retail traders and KOSPI index parabolic moves
View AnalysisMay 6, 2026
CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
Enshittification and platform decayGoogle Search quality degradationAntitrust enforcement and monopoly policy
View AnalysisApr 29, 2026
Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
Palantir's business model and government contractingAI-driven surveillance and pre-crime systemsTech industry's role in military and defense applications
View AnalysisApr 22, 2026
Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization
AI Reporting and Media CredibilityClaude Mythos Security CapabilitiesAI Agents and Autonomous Systems
View AnalysisApr 24, 2026
Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle
AI data center infrastructure economicsOpenAI financial sustainability and burn rateOracle's Stargate project costs and timeline
View AnalysisApr 15, 2026
More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker
AI Hype Cycle and Bubble EconomicsJournalist Use of AI Tools and Writing ProcessTech Billionaire Psychology and Lack of Introspection
View AnalysisApr 1, 2026
Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?
Claude subscription rate limiting and pricing structureClaude Code source code leak and security incidentAI-generated code quality and review burden
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