
Ed Zitron
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Here's my full interview with CNBC, covering my bear case against generative AI, OpenAI's questionable finances, AI's lack of ROI, and how all of this is a symptom of the tech industry running out of hypergrowth ideas. It's great to see the mainstream media discussing this.
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Joined CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about how 70% of AI revenues are coming from Anthropic and OpenAI, NVIDIA's vendor financing by proxy, and how outside of unprofitable and unsustainable AI labs, there's single-digit billions of dollars of demand for AI compute and software.
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Really appreciated Bloomberg having me on again to talk about the lie of AI - everyone's buying into the mag7 believing CapEx is going towards diverse AI demand, when all it's really doing is supporting the circular cloud revenues of two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs.
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One of the biggest lies of the AI bubble is that Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta are "growing because of AI." In reality, they're using the continued growth of their other business units to cover the meager returns from AI, and the massive waste of their trillion+ in capex.
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Here’s my full segment on MS NOW with Ari Melber about becoming “the leading expert voice on the bearish case against AI,” the end of hypergrowth, and how AI’s costs and losses are magnitudes higher than those that built Amazon Web Services, and even Amazon itself.
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Here's my interview with CNBC on how Zuckerberg's vacuous talking points about AGI and open source exist to distract from how Meta burned $180bn in capex (and more off-balance-sheet) to make also-ran LLMs that don't deliver an iota of the promise of "personal superintelligence."
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Despite myths that there's "incredible demand for AI," 70%+ of hyperscaler AI revenues come from OpenAI and Anthropic. In FY26, $24.1bn of Microsoft's $34.33bn in AI revenue came from OpenAI - meaning that GPU rentals and AI software are single-digit billion dollar businesses.
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Generative AI is a $30 billion TAM industry pretending to be a trillion-dollar one, propped up by circular financing from NVIDIA and desperation from hyperscalers like Oracle, who has mortgaged its entire future on the idea that OpenAI can pay it $75bn a year for compute.
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Joined Bloomberg to talk about how AI’s ridiculous promises, demands for capital and egregious circular financing are a vulgar display of wealth inequality, OpenAI’s worrying price cuts, and how the most dangerous companies running AI models are Anthropic and OpenAI themselves.
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Needed to pull out an important part of the interview. AI is often justified by comparing it to Amazon Web Services' ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) losses, when its costs/losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse. There'll also be little useful infrastructure left behind.
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One of the (many) reasons I think people are so anti-AI is that it’s a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. The average person’s life is difficult, expensive, and getting any kind of loan sucks - unless you’re raising billions of dollars to build an AI data center.
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UBS estimates that 48% of Google Cloud's 2027 revenues will come from Anthropic and OpenAI, who represent 70% of AI revenues across Amazon, Google and Microsoft. For hyperscalers to meet expectations, AI labs must raise hundreds of billions of dollars in the next three years.
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what's important to know about this is that it was a prime time TV show in England for many years
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Dario Amodei of Anthropic claims to love American values, and I can think of nothing more American than competition. Yet his approach - masked as an "AI arms race with China" - is focused on crushing open source models that are competing with Claude at a lower price.
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Went on the BBC to talk about Anthropic's funding, financials, and the greater AI bubble
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Joined BBC News to talk about AI capex, the AI bubble, and OpenAI being the Lehman Brothers of AI.
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