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Today: #32 in Technology, India on our combined chart.

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Position on the Technology, India combined chart over the last 7 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.

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Oct 21#49#49#49#44
Oct 20#31#31#27#30
Oct 19#30#30#30#30
Oct 18#83#82—#98
Oct 17#58#60—#50
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Latest episodes

  • The Mind of Larry Ellison w/ Tom Dotan

    October 21, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by writer Tom Dotan to talk about the life of Larry Ellison, his children, his companies, his decades of existential crises, and how all he really cares about is his own individual…

  • Introducing: Knowledge Fight Country

    October 19, 2026 · 3 min

    Knowledge Fight Country is a platform where Dan Friesen and his guests can chew over the biggest and best ideas being disseminated in right wing media. Through a focus on Alex Jones and figures similar to him, this show will provide a…

  • Monologue: Anthropic Slows Down

    October 16, 2026 · 14 min

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how Anthropic’s big Q3 revenues underwhelmed an already-nervous market, and how the more of the real numbers we learn about AI, the worse things seem to get. Newsletter…

  • The Hater's Guide To Bonds With Rob Wigglesworth

    October 14, 2026 · 42 min

    In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Robin Wigglesworth of the Financial Times to explain how both corporate and sovereign bonds work, why you should care, and what you need to know about the tech industry’s growing…

  • Monologue: Australia's Dodgiest AI IPO Is A Pale Horse

    October 9, 2026 · 10 min

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the brittle state of Australian AI data center company Firmus’ IPO, its dodgy underlying numbers, and how the Australian media has set an example of how you should actually…

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  • "Cycular" Financing w/ GamersNexus

    October 7, 2026 · 50 min

    In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s “cycular” financing, Trump’s “superintelligence” accord, the growing bubble in the gaming industry, and the Steam Frame VR headset. Save $10 off a…

  • Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden

    October 2, 2026 · 7 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…

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

    September 30, 2026 · 8 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.w…

  • Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild

    September 25, 2026 · 11 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…

  • The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky

    September 23, 2026 · 55 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…

  • Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!

    September 18, 2026 · 8 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…

  • Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport

    September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Ed Zitron is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport and journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI is driven by a religious cult of effective…

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About the show

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.