# How ‘Pathological’ Silicon Valley fanatics are blocking AI regulation | Timothy Noah

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Podcast: [The Tech Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-report-7700174)
Published: 2026-05-05T17:15:53+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-tech-report/episodes/pathological-silicon-valley-fanatics-blocking-ai-regulatio
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“As oligarchs go, Tech moguls are much more visibly crazy.” Staff writer for The New Republic and author of The Great Divergence, Timothy Noah, tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that the resistance to regulation within the tech industry has become “pathological” leaving tech moguls looking like Bond villains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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