# AI Bubble: ‘This could be OpenAI’s death spiral’ | Ed Zitron

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Podcast: [The Tech Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-report-7700174)
Published: 2026-06-26T19:30:00+00:00
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 “So we’re sitting on this series of time bombs and the fact the people with the money haven’t been asking the questions is genuinely dangerous.” Author of Where Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about OpenAI delaying their IPO and the multi-trillion dollar tech stock sell off that has followed a souring in public an investors confidence in AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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