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AI's Brokenomics

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AI Is Slowing Down

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AI Doesn't Have ROI

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Ed Zitron May 29, 2026 60 min read

Revenge of The Business Idiot

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Ed Zitron May 22, 2026 33 min read

Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about how Anthropic is “about to have its first profitable quarter,” specifically

Ed Zitron May 21, 2026 9 min read

AI Is Too Expensive

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Where Are All The Data Centers?

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Ed Zitron May 8, 2026 33 min read

Am I Meant To Be Impressed?

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AI's Economics Don't Make Sense

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Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse

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I Will Never Respect A Website

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AI Is Really Weird

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Soundtrack — Soundgarden — Blow Up The Outside World A lot of people try to rationalize the AI bubble by digging up

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The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here

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The AI Industry Is Lying To You

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The Beginning Of History

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Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one word kept coming up:

Ed Zitron Jan 16, 2026 52 min read

The Enshittifinancial Crisis

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NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?

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Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex

As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you

Ed Zitron Oct 31, 2025 39 min read

The Case Against Generative AI

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Ed Zitron Sep 29, 2025 71 min read

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Is There Any Real Money In Renting Out AI GPUs?

NVIDIA has become a giant, unhealthy rock on which the US markets — and to some extent the US economy — sits,

Ed Zitron Sep 19, 2025 26 min read

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Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap

This week, something strange happened. Oracle, a company that had just missed on its earnings and revenue estimates, saw a

Ed Zitron Sep 12, 2025 30 min read

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Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI

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How To Argue With An AI Booster

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Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis

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Ed Zitron Jul 7, 2025 37 min read