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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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Why Are We Still Doing This?

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Ed Zitron Mar 13, 2026 49 min read

The Beginning Of History

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The AI Bubble Is An Information War

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We have a global intelligence crisis, in that a lot of people are being really fucking stupid. As I discussed

Ed Zitron Feb 27, 2026 63 min read

On NVIDIA and Analyslop

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Edward Zitron Feb 26, 2026 16 min read

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Edward Zitron Jan 30, 2026 63 min read

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2025, A Retrospective

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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

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This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services

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OpenAI Needs $400 Billion In The Next 12 Months

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The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

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OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

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Edward Zitron Oct 3, 2025 40 min read

The Case Against Generative AI

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OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years

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Edward Zitron Sep 26, 2025 20 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,

Edward Zitron Sep 19, 2025 26 min read

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Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap

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Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI

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AI Bubble 2027

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Edward Zitron Aug 27, 2025 54 min read

How To Argue With An AI Booster

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Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis

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