The Pepper Report

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A show about AI, technology, and life.

Episodes

  1. The quiet breakthrough

    MAR 20

    The quiet breakthrough

    The sector generating the least spectacle is producing the most substance. One week in March 2026 made it impossible to ignore.

    15 min
  2. Concrete and kilowatts

    MAR 16

    Concrete and kilowatts

    AI stopped being a software story and became an infrastructure story. Nearly $700 billion in physical buildout is reshaping energy markets, breaking political coalitions, and sending electricity bills climbing.

    18 min
  3. The confidence machine

    MAR 13

    The confidence machine

    AI's most dangerous property isn't inaccuracy. It's that wrong answers arrive with the same confidence as right ones, and humans aren't equipped to tell the difference.

    22 min
  4. Consequences

    MAR 10

    Consequences

    Every major AI story from the past week follows the same script: something goes wrong, the responsible party performs a choreographed response, and the actual consequences land somewhere else entirely. Not a conspiracy. An operating model.

    11 min
  5. Collision course

    MAR 6

    Collision course

    In a single week, every thread of the AI story caught fire at once. Boycotts, chip controls, a five-year plan, frozen acquisitions, and an energy pledge. It stopped being a technology story. It became geopolitics.

    16 min
  6. $110 billion and a boycott

    MAR 2

    $110 billion and a boycott

    Tobacco, oil, and defense stocks all climbed while public opinion turned against them. The OpenAI boycott fits the same pattern — except for one structural difference.

    9 min
  7. Vibes vs. evidence

    FEB 27

    Vibes vs. evidence

    The gap between what we're spending on AI and what we're measuring from it isn't a mystery. It's a pattern — and it's playing out exactly the way it did with computers, electricity, and the dot-com bubble.

    13 min
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A show about AI, technology, and life.

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  • Creator
    Peppercrest
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Peppercrest
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