In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how OpenAI’s collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill Oracle, and destroy Larry Ellison’s empire.

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how OpenAI&rsquo;s collapse could mortally wound SoftBank, throw the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal into chaos, kill Oracle, and destroy Larry Ellison&rsquo;s empire. To celebrate the one year anniversary of the premium newsletter, I&rsquo;m offering a sale on one-year subscriptions. Between now and midnight July 22, you can get a permanent annual rate of just $60&mdash; a $10 discount on the usual price of $70 - for life - <a href="https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/N9bqSLKBoS?ref=wheresyoured.at">https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/N9bqSLKBoS?ref=wheresyoured.at</a>
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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 tech’s elite wants to build. 

Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

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 tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline

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 tech’s elite wants to build.



Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

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 tech’s elite wants to build.
 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/596f6455-17af-4180-9609-b4890115c500/transcript

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about how demand for AI GPUs helped the RAM cartel make every single consumer electronic more expensive, and how bad it’ll be when things unwind.

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GamersNexus on the RAM cartel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY

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In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about how demand for AI GPUs helped the RAM cartel make every single consumer electronic more expensive, and how bad it&rsquo;ll be when things unwind. Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: <a href="https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1">https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1</a>&nbsp;- I&rsquo;d be so grateful! GamersNexus on the RAM cartel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY</a>
Support GamersNexus&rsquo; AI Surveillance Dystopia Series: <a href="https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia">https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia</a>
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AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is inflating the price of memory across the board by diverting fab capacity to building high bandwidth memory for GPUs, and how this situation may end in disaster for everyone involved.

GamersNexus: The DRAM Cartel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY

HBM to increase 90% Year over Year - https://x.com/pequityresearch/status/2075035164833382909?s=46

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is inflating the price of memory across the board by diverting fab capacity to building high bandwidth memory for GPUs, and how this situation may end in disaster for everyone involved. GamersNexus: The DRAM Cartel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY</a>
HBM to increase 90% Year over Year - <a href="https://x.com/pequityresearch/status/2075035164833382909?s=46">https://x.com/pequityresearch/status/2075035164833382909?s=46</a>
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Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive

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This week’s Better Offline is the first joint episode with Riley, November, Hussein from TrashFuture, covering SoftBank’s crazy annual shareholder meeting and the general collapse of the AI bubble.

Ed Zitron and the TF Crew are on both your feeds this week to discuss the Softbank slide deck breakdown you’ve all been waiting for. It’s nothing other than the goose, and whether or not the goose was valued, and what kind of factory does a goose use to make golden eggs.

Shareholder deck for following along:
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This week&rsquo;s Better Offline is the first joint episode with Riley, November, Hussein from TrashFuture, covering SoftBank&rsquo;s crazy annual shareholder meeting and the general collapse of the AI bubble. Ed Zitron and the TF Crew are on both your feeds this week to discuss the Softbank slide deck breakdown you&rsquo;ve all been waiting for. It&rsquo;s nothing other than the goose, and whether or not the goose was valued, and what kind of factory does a goose use to make golden eggs. Shareholder deck for following along: <a href="https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf">https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf</a>
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Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell

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Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle

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