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... more
In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how the AI industry’s limp Super Bowl commercials show how little... more
In a live-to-tape recording in Ed Zitron's living room, Wide Left writer Arif Hasan and Western Kabuki Host Caleb Wilson... more
In the first of a new series of weekly monologues, Ed Zitron breaks down what exactly happened with DeepSeek, and... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron explains how the emergence of a much-more-efficient generative AI model has become an existential threat... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron explains how DeepSeek, a relatively-unknown Chinese model AI developer incubated in a hedge fund, has... more
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how lax regulation and all-too-chummy media coverage has empowered Mark Zuckerberg and... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the latest "right-wing turn" for Mark Zuckerberg and Meta is really... more
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed... more
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with... more
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with... more
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with... more
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with... more
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with... more
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with... more
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with... more
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with... more
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with... more
In part 2 of the 2024 Better Offline finale, Ed Zitron tells you how to fight back against the growth-at-all-costs... more
In this year's two-part finale, Ed Zitron enumerates the damage being done to billions of people by the growth-at-all-costs Rot... more
FTC Chair Lina Khan joins Ed Zitron to talk about competitiveness in the tech industry, controlling the cloud giants, and... more
In a special live-to-tape episode of Better Offline, Ed is joined by The Verge's Alex Cranz and YouTube influencer Michael... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by 404 Media's Jason Koebler to talk about the state of both the... more
Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by Ryan Barwick of Marketing Brew to talk about how the entire tech ecosystem is... more
We're approaching the end of the line for generative AI as big tech realizes that spending $200bn on chips and... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron discusses big tech's discovery of the diminishing returns in training generative AI models - and... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads -... more
Blame the tech industry for the rise of authoritarianism. Blame a news media handicapped by a deference to power and... more
Recorded live at Web Summit Lisbon, Ed Zitron is joined by William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at the University... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Mike Masnick, CEO and Founder of Techdirt, inventor of the Streisand effect,... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Daron Acemoglu, MIT Economist and recent winner of the Nobel Prize in... more
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan, The Man Who Destroyed Google Search, was removed from his position at Google and made a... more
In this episode, Ed is joined by Paris Marx, author of the Disconnect Blog and the host of Tech Won't... more
In this episode, Ed is joined in the iHeartRadio studios in New York City by Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law Professor... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the brewing subprime AI crisis. The entire generative AI market is run... more
As of last week, OpenAI is now worth $157 billion - yet below the hood is a far darker story.... more
Ed Zitron is joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN and Arielle Garcia, Director of Intelligence at CheckMyAds, for the... more
Just over a month after the CrowdStrike debacle, Ed Zitron is joined by journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker to "stokel-walk"... more
Ed Zitron is joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN and Arielle Garcia, Director of Intelligence at CheckMyAds, for the... more
Ed Zitron is once again joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN, for the second episode of Better Offline's coverage... more
After earnings failed to reassure investors about their concerns around generative AI's return on investment, NVIDIA's stock suffered a record... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN, to set the scene for Better Offline's... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how Google used their monopolies over search and search advertising to scam... more
A few weeks ago, a federal judge declared that Google has a monopoly over the search industry and text-based advertising.... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with Matt Stoller, author of the BIG Newsletter and Research Director of the... more
In the fourth live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron sits down with the BBC's Thomas Germain to talk about... more
As the AI bubble collapses, it's time for the tech industry to repent, and to recognize that the future cannot... more
After a year of opulent spending, the markets have begun to sour on big tech's $200 billion bet on generative... more
In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and... more
In the second live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by the New York Times' Mike Isaac... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with famed MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to talk about the economics of the... more
On Friday July 19, millions of Windows PCs entered a doom-loop that rendered them non-functional thanks to an update sent... more
In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies,"... more
When the money gets nervous, so should you. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through a remarkable report from... more
The shareholder supremacy has eaten the tech industry, driving private and public companies to chase unprofitable, unsustainable ideas like generative... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron tracks the history of the growth-at-all-costs rot economy to a court case in 1916 that... more
A few weeks ago, an Australian tech worker called Nik Suresh wrote an evisceration of the current AI hype boom... more
In a special live-to-tape episode of Better Offline, Ed is joined by The Verge's Alex Cranz and YouTube influencer Michael... more
In April, The Onion was acquired by a new entity called Global Tetrahedron, revealed shortly thereafter to be a joint... more
Last week, Apple announced that they're integrating artificial intelligence into your iPhone and Mac in a stunningly demure and reserved... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks through how Sam Altman's ridiculous promises about the future of artificial intelligence could be... more
Sam Altman has used his power and influence to become a multi-billionaire with stakes in hundreds of startups, but behind... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through what happens when tech's growth-at-all-costs epoch begins to collapse, and how the... more
Tech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online between 2022 and 2023, and almost every... more
On May 14th 2024, Google introduced their Search Generative Experience, a service that uses hallucination-prone artificial intelligence to generate answers... more
For three years, Facebook's monthly active users have been declining dramatically, with Facebook.com losing 397 million unique monthly visitors since... more
In the last decade, Mark Zuckerberg and his internal growth team have repeatedly and intentionally made Facebook and Instagram harder... more
Earlier in the year, OpenAI debuted Sora, an AI that can generate videos that almost look realistic. In this episode,... more
On April 26 2024, the NHTSA, the government body responsible for keeping roads safe, found Tesla's Autopilot and Full-Self-Driving software... more
Ed Zitron walks you through how career manager Adam Mosseri pushed out Instagram's original founders, turning it into an ultra-profitable... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads -... more
The growth-at-all-costs management consultant mindset has turned most of the modern internet into a painful and profitable social experiment -... more
In the last few weeks TikTok and other social networks have been flooded with memes about a chinese glycine manufacturer... more
Every major tech firm is betting billions of dollars that the generative AI revolution will change society - yet when... more
It’s been just under a year and a half since ChatGPT - an AI-powered chatbot launched by so-called non-profit OpenAI... more
Wikipedia, a non-profit encyclopedia that anybody can edit, remains one of the few trustworthy and reliable websites left online. Ed... more
The media industry has laid off over 30,000 people in the last three years as a result of an executive... more
Ever wonder why Silicon Valley stopped making anything new or interesting? It's because of the same growth-at-all-costs mindset that's destroyed... more
A New York Times investigation revealed this week that Musk's $7 billion "Musk Foundation" regularly fails to donate enough money... more
In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta, claiming that it was now a "Metaverse company," throwing the entire tech... more
Though the Winklevoss brothers are best known for their role in the early days of Facebook, you'll be surprised to... more
Ever wonder why Google results are getting worse, or why you aren't seeing your friends on Instagram? It's all because... more
Apple's $3500 face computer is here, and after spending far too many hours inside it, Ed Zitron has found Apple's... more
Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s growing influence over society, and how startups, venture capitalists and... more
Ever wonder why Google results are getting worse, or why you aren't seeing your friends on Instagram? It's all because of the... more