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“We’re only going to see more burnout as employers either adopt more AI tools or they just keep pushing employees for more so they can hit targets.”

Author of book and newsletter Blood in the Machine Brian Merchant joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the strain being placed on workers under AI adoption mandates as a new survey reveals 20% of AI layoffs have been reversed.
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“To call this horrifying just doesn’t do it justice.”

Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic getting hacked and the future of AI agents as banks and now Amazon have started blocking them from their platforms.
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“I’m going to take money from my left pocket, put it in the right pocket and get very rich that way. That doesn’t work.”

Senior Distinguished Fellow for the Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the warnings signs of an AI bubble and the future of US tech as China’s AI market crashes after investors lose patience waiting for return on investment.
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“I don’t know what anthropic does now because you’re going to the junk bond market that’s already strained.”

Writer of Where’s You Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic’s IPO as the story breaks that Blackstone does not expect the maker of Claude to reach investment grade debt.
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“If there’s a real threat from AI on the existential scale, it’s from the emissions.”

Tech journalist and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the physical impact data centers are having on the world and how the biggest threat from AI is not killer robots or Skynet.
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