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“When you see 3.8% growth in consumption, that's clearly coming from stock gains. And if those stock gains go in reverse, we're going to see a big hit to consumption. So I don't think that's at all analogous.” — Dean Baker, The Tech Report
Dean Baker · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“So it has to come from outside of AI, just logically. I mean, I'm going to take it from my left pocket, put it in the right pocket, and get very rich that way. That doesn't work. … there's absolutely zero evidence it's the sort of sea change that the AI promoters are banking on. And unless it is, those stock prices don't make sense.” — Dean Baker, The Tech Report
Dean Baker · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“They're going to treat it like any other expense. You don't pay more for paper than you have to. So if one company's offering you paper for 10, 20% less than the other company, you switch to the one that's offering you cheaper paper and AI is going to be the same sort of deal.” — Dean Baker, The Tech Report
Dean Baker · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“AI does not help a business get better. We do not have evidence for this. And indeed, we now have tangible evidence that it makes the business worse. That is crazy. It is crazy that Google spent $50 billion in capex in a quarter for a product that is making its business materially weaker.” — Ed Zitron, The Tech Report
Ed Zitron · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“No one wants to be the person that runs for the door. Because they know that once they do that, everyone panics at once and blames them. However, doing that is the smartest call, but doing it too early will make you look stupid. Doing it too late will make you look stupid.” — Ed Zitron, The Tech Report
Ed Zitron · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Don't watch the mouth, watch the hands. Watch what the banks are doing, not what they're saying. If JP Morgan says that SpaceX is the best thing ever, ignore it. Go and look at what JP Morgan is doing with data center debt.” — Ed Zitron, The Tech Report
Ed Zitron · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“But it's very, like, just very simply, if customers are being forced to take early delivery, that is not demand. … And I just, it shows that there is a fundamental disconnection between what people perceive as AI demand and what is actual AI demand.” — Ed Zitron, The Tech Report
Ed Zitron · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“So what we're saying is, oh, we'd have a recession if we stopped building them today. And so let's keep building them today. And the next year or the year after when we realize there's no demand, then we'll have the recession. That doesn't make sense.” — Dean Baker, The Tech Report
Dean Baker · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I've been looking for an explosion when you're looking for, to quote my mate, Casey, a dead body. It's a slow boil. You find corpses here and there. Things die. Things don't happen. Contracts don't get signed. Debt doesn't get raised.” — Ed Zitron, The Tech Report
Ed Zitron · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you tried to get a mortgage and your parents co-signed the loan and they said, we will be the ones that make the payments because we are going to live in the second bedroom. The bank would start asking real questions about your parents. … But because it's a data center, they're like, oh, brilliant.” — Ed Zitron, The Tech Report
Ed Zitron · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If Sam Altman tells me the sky is blue, I will first try to work out how that affects OpenAI's finances.” — David Gerard, The Tech Report
David Gerard · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Timnit Gebru, AI researcher, she says, look, if a bridge collapses, you don't say it was a rogue bridge. It was unaligned with human values. You say, that was a badly built bridge, and we're going to have a word with the engineer.” — David Gerard, The Tech Report
David Gerard · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →

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