About Ed Zitron

CEO of national Media Relations and Public Relations company EZPR

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Requiem for Raghavan

2024-10-22 02:35:15

Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist." 

An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn&

You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars

2024-10-15 03:29:30

You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist. First, you never get paid much, but you will get free records from the record company.

[There’s] fuckin’ nothin' about you that is

OpenAI Is A Bad Business

2024-10-03 01:16:40

OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after

The Other Bubble

2024-09-27 02:06:13

Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up  capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom.

In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year, Microsoft'

The Subprime AI Crisis

2024-09-17 03:40:01

None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a

Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies

2024-08-28 12:12:50

The latest episode of my podcast Better Offline is a conversation with Matt Stoller — America’s leading voice on monopoly and antitrust matters, and a thoughtful and prolific writer. You can find Matt on Twitter here, and his newsletter here.

It was a timely conversation. At the

Monopoly Money

2024-08-13 04:18:27

Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something incredible happened.

On Monday, a Federal Judge delivered a crushing ruling in the multi-year-long antitrust case filed against Google by the Department of Justice. In 300-pages of dense legal text, Judge Amit Mehta

Burst Damage

2024-08-06 01:39:55

Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam

I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense, logic and reason,

How Does OpenAI Survive?

2024-07-30 00:03:21

Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle — but at

Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu

2024-07-25 00:12:44

Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you can insert an RSS feed.

Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Daron Acemoglu — one of the world’s most

CrowdStruck

2024-07-20 04:29:05

Soundtrack: EL-P - Tasmanian Pain Coaster (feat. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Cedric Bixler-Zavala)

When I first began writing this newsletter, I didn't really have a goal, or a "theme," or anything that could neatly characterize what I was going to write about other than that I was

Put Up Or Shut Up

2024-07-17 04:26:39

I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their intentions and the power of AI. 

I get it. Everybody wants

Pop Culture

2024-07-09 01:12:49

Hi there. Do you like this post? Did you know that I also do a podcast called Better Offline? If not, please immediately download it on your podcast app. Follow the show. Download every episode. Share with your friends, and demand they do the same.

I did an entire episode

The Shareholder Supremacy

2024-07-02 01:09:57

I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta, Microsoft

Let Tim Cook

2024-06-18 00:41:38

Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next version of the iPhone’s software) in a presentation that FastCompany called “uninspired,” Futurism called “boring,” and Axios claimed “failed to excite investors.” 

The