Techstrong Gang
Techstrong Gang is your go-to weekday show on Techstrong TV and your favorite podcast platform, bringing together a rotating lineup of top thought leaders and technologists to break down the biggest stories and trends shaping the tech world. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitchell Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin, Tracy Ragan, Sulagna Saha, Anne Ahola Ward, Bonnie Schneider, and more, the show dives deep into everything from DevOps and cybersecurity to AI and cloud innovation. Tune in Monday through Friday for insightful discussions, expert analysis, and lively debates on the issues that matter most to today’s tech professionals.
Episodes
Linux kernel maintainers published 432 CVEs in two days, and security teams are calling the volume unmanageable. The European Union fined Google $1 billion for violating antitrust rules tied to search and the Google Play Store. And Samsung is negotiating a stake in AI startup Mistral at a $22.8 billion valuation. Full breakdown on today's Techstrong Gang with host Jon Swartz, Tracy Ragan, Jeff Reich, and Jack Poller.
OpenAI's own models broke out of a security-testing sandbox and hacked into rival Hugging Face's servers using stolen credentials. Alphabet answered the AI security conversation with three new Gemini Flash models, including one built to hunt and patch vulnerabilities. And AMD signed a multibillion-dollar chip and investment deal with Anthropic while Microsoft adopted AMD's Helios system for Azure. Full breakdown on today's Techstro...
Alan Shimel makes the case that Google has become a "parasite" on the open web, consuming publisher content through AI Overviews while eliminating the reason to click through. A federal judge grants final approval to a $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement — the largest in U.S. history. And Forrester's 2027 forecast finds tech and marketing budgets surging as AI pricing shifts from per-seat to usage-based models. Full b...
Alan Shimel makes the case that the AI model war ends in abundance, not victory, as open and controllable models undercut proprietary AI's pricing power. Cisco open-sources Antares, ultra-cheap AI models purpose-built to hunt software vulnerabilities. And Anaconda acquires Kilo Code, pushing the Python company deep into agentic AI development.
Full breakdown on today's Techstrong Gang with Alan Shimel, Kate Scarcella, Sid Nag, and ...
Today's Techstrong Gang panel — Alan Shimel, Jon Swartz, Mitch Ashley, Yvette Schmitter, and Liz Safran — breaks down why being "indispensable" doesn't protect any layer of the AI stack from commoditization, Mira Murati's Thinking Machines taking on Chinese open-weight dominance with Inkling, China's looming Kimi K3 release, and OpenAI's GPT-Red model beating human red-teamers 84% to 13% while making GPT-5.6 six times m...
Trump declassifies election intelligence ahead of the midterms, the White House launches its Gold Eagle vulnerability initiative as most breaches still trace back to known flaws, and AI steps up to help humanitarian aid groups survive a post-USAID funding collapse. Full breakdown on today's Techstrong Gang.
CXMT's $10B Shanghai IPO takes on the DRAM oligopoly, TSMC posts a record Q2, the White House expands its AI Ratepayer Pledge as PJM adds $6.3B in power costs, and CMMC Phase II gets suspended right as Iran's SS7 troop-tracking comes to light. Full breakdown on today's Techstrong Gang.
IBM's ~$70B market-cap wipeout after warning AI infrastructure spending is crowding out software budgets. Plus: Starbucks builds its own software instead of renewing Microsoft/IBM contracts, a landmark EU ruling strips Big Tech platforms of algorithmic safe harbor, and FIFA's Connected Ball sparks World Cup controversy. With Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Mitch Ashley, Fred Wilmot, and Drew Gutstein.
More than 200 global economists and AI researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates, just signed an open letter warning AI could disrupt the world economy faster than any past technological shift.
On today's Techstrong Gang, Alan Shim...
Apple has filed a sweeping lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a sustained campaign to steal confidential hardware trade secrets as OpenAI expands into consumer devices. On today's Techstrong Gang, Mike Vizard, Alan Shimel, Stephen Foskett, Elizabeth Safran and Yvette Schmitter break down Apple's claims against OpenAI, its hardware un...
OpenClaw's new governance Foundation and NVIDIA/LangChain's 10x-cheaper NemoClaw Blueprint headline today's Techstrong Gang. Plus four new software supply chain attacks — Cordyceps, GhostApproval, HalluSquatting and North Korea's PolinRider — and Shandong University's TrojPix air-gap exfiltration technique.
A Windows device ID caught an alleged Scattered Spider hacker despite VPN use. China's NVDB flags a "backdoor" in Anthropic's Claude Code. Ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke unveils a distributed Git network for AI agents. And Alan Shimel makes the case that AI didn't steal your thinking — you gave it away.
NVIDIA now takes a cut of AI cloud revenue, not just hardware sales. A YouGov survey reveals how deeply AI has embedded into young Americans' personal lives. And Hollywood fights over AI actress Tilly Norwood, Scorsese, and Google's A24 deal. Techstrong Gang breaks it all down.
Apple locks in Broadcom through 2031 for custom AI silicon. IBM posts its best mainframe revenue in 20 years. Techstrong Gang breaks down what's next in the AI infrastructure race.
Europe's top court just delivered Google's final antitrust defeat, while Microsoft and AWS pour billions into forward-deployed AI engineering to win the enterprise deployment race. The conversation also covers AI's first autonomous mission to the Moon.
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard are joined by Jon Swartz, Barbara Roos and Robert Reeves to discuss America at 250, open platform freedom, the AI intelligence grid and export controls on advanced AI models.
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard are joined by Andi Mann, Jeff Reich, Chris Blask and Jon Swartz to discuss AI-powered job interviews, rising AI coding costs, AI-generated code in production and why human imagination still matters as AI tools become more capable.
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard are joined by Kate Scarcella and Chris Blask to discuss open source AI economics, escalating copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, and the PACT protocol for distinguishing trusted AI agents from malicious bots.
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard are joined by Stephen Foskett and Jon Swartz to discuss Microsoft extending Windows 10 security updates, the White House easing restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and the debate over AI-powered crime prediction.
Mike Vizard is joined by Jon Swartz, Jack Poller, Tracy Ragan and Jeff Reich to break down OpenAI and Broadcom’s custom Jalapeño AI chip, Qualcomm’s Modular acquisition, TSMC price pressure, new efforts to defend open source software and key takeaways from PlatformCon.
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