AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
7/15/20261 hr 4 min
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about how demand for AI GPUs helped the RAM cartel make every single consumer electronic more expensive, and how bad it’ll be when things unwind.
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