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Recent episodes include "Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden", "Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI", and "Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild". The latest went out on 2 Oct 2026 and ran about 7 minutes. Reading two or three of these before pitching is the fastest way to see what the show actually books.

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Better Offline publishes weekly, a median of 5 days between episodes. Episodes average about 24 minutes. The back catalogue stands at 274 episodes. A show on this cadence plans ahead, so pitch earlier rather than closer to the date you want.

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Better Offline

Hosted by Unknown Host · technology · EN-US · 274 episodes

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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.

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Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden
Oct 1, 20267 min
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about Anthropic’s $413 billion in non-cancellable compute commitments, and how its future depends on the impossible task of borrowing $50 billion to $100 billion a year from a bond market that’s already strained by endless AI data center debt. Link to details on contracts: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mwoc3p2b2s2m Newsletter: Dead Money: https://www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/ Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to  https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code  FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/   Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI
Sep 29, 20268 min
In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse business than OpenAI. Dead Money: https://www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/ Anthropic story from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28/ Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to  https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code  FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/   Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild
Sep 24, 202611 min
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how $200bn to $300bn of AI GPUs are sitting in warehouses, how hyperscalers like Microsoft are overstating their AI capacity, and why the AI data center overbuild is magntiudes worse than the Dot Com era fiber buildout.  Where’re All The AI Chips? https://www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/ Dario quote: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei-2#:~:text=Basically%20I%E2%80%99m%20saying,that%20much%20compute  Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to  https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code  FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/   Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky
Sep 22, 202655 min
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about how AI is distorting the bond markets to the point that it’s changing the price on US Treasuries, how AI data center economics don’t make sense, and the troubling signs he’s hearing out of Anthropic. https://paulkedrosky.com/ The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbDiETo29GTIjg6Lk4imig Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to  https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code  FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/   Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!
Sep 17, 20268 min
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron delivers a simple message: if Dario Amodei truly believes that Anthropic is building dangerous AI, he should stop any and all cybersecurity model training runs, halt his IPO, limit Claude to only the safest possible functions, or shut the fuck up. Anthropic “80% gross margins” story https://www.ft.com/content/4564e6a5-69e9-40a6-bf0f-a888f2f4f002?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Overcharging story:  theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/anthropic-customers-find-errant-charges-auditing-startup-says Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to  https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code  FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/   Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Steve Burke

President, Wheelhouse Electronics

Cory Doctorow

bestselling novelist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Ed Zitron

journalist, author, curator of Where's Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast, Better Offline

Cal Newport

computer scientist and bestselling author

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Recent episodes

Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden

Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI

Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild

The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky

Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!

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Steve Burke

Cory Doctorow

Ed Zitron

Cal Newport

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Better Offline

About this Podcast:

Pitch Analysis

What is Better Offline?

About the host

Recent episodes

Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden

Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI

Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild

The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky

Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!

Guest Appearances

Steve Burke

Cory Doctorow

Ed Zitron

Cal Newport

Advertisers on this show

Best industries to pitch Better Offline for

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