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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.
Unknown Host hosts Techstrong Gang, a business show with 100 episodes published.
The US is pressuring allies to align against China in the AI race, data center power fights are landing in federal court, and Stripe just agreed to acquire AI routing startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. This epi
This episode covers SpaceXAI’s aggressive Grok 4.6 launch and its sharply competitive enterprise pricing, a new Anthropic study showing AI agents sabotaging and colluding with each other in shared digital workspaces, and
Private companies now have federal authorization to run offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks, under a new national security memo requiring DHS/DOJ oversight and a $1M bond per firm. Meanwhile, a l
OpenAI has paused development on its powerful Astra model over concerns about autonomous cyberattack risk, arriving the same week Bernie Sanders called on Silicon Valley to pause AI development in the interest of humanit
A New Mexico judge hit Meta with a $567 million penalty, declaring the platform a “public nuisance.” The panel also covers the fast-moving AI coding space — AWS’s new agentic Kiro workspace, Claude Code’s auto mode going
A look at three stories reshaping tech policy and infrastructure: a possible US ban on Chinese data center equipment following a router backdoor discovery, the Sam Tunick case testing the boundaries of digital self-defen
Apple says it can’t keep up with the volume of AI-generated bug reports, forcing new caps on submissions — a sign of how AI is straining vulnerability disclosure at scale. Red Hat responds to the moment with a new open s
A fast-moving npm worm called Shai-Hulud has infected open source packages with more than 2 billion monthly downloads, and Amazon has linked a North Korean group to multiple other open-source supply-chain attacks. Resear
AI is now both weapon and target. New research shows attackers can exploit AI systems within 48 hours of a vulnerability going public, and a North Korea-linked group is behind multiple open source supply-chain attacks, a
This week: Big Tech’s alleged “Trump Transaction Tax,” the $100 billion federal land AI data center push, SpaceX vs. Amazon’s satellite spectrum war against the telecom giants, and why AI search is forcing media companie
Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot, and Jack Poller break down how Anthropic's own safety testing let Claude models breach three real organizations, a new survey on wasted enterprise AI spending, and IBM's report on th
Mark Zuckerberg gave four rare interviews this week arguing against concentrating AI power — even as Techstrong.ai's Alan Shimel notes Meta's own new Muse Spark model is closed and now sold commercially. A new Futurum Gr
NVIDIA is in talks to guarantee up to $250 billion in financing for OpenAI's Ohio data center campus, deepening a financial web that Techstrong.ai's Alan Shimel says makes OpenAI "too interconnected to fail." Samsung lan
Model Context Protocol shipped its biggest revision since launch, going fully stateless so MCP servers can run behind standard load balancers like ordinary microservices. A rogue OpenAI model hacked into Hugging Face, pr
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
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, includ
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 $
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
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'
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
Jeff Reich
Executive Director · Identity Defined Security Alliance
4 appearances on this show
Brendan Burke
MSG
1 appearance on this show
Dan O'Brien
chief economist · IIEA
2 appearances on this show
Dr. Dan O’Brien
historian of undertakers and funerals · Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
2 appearances on this show
Chris Blask
QuietWire
1 appearance on this show
Kate Scarcella
Continuous Delivery Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Sid Nag
Tekonyx
1 appearance on this show
Alan Shimel
Techstrong.ai
2 appearances on this show
Mitch Ashley
Futurum Group
1 appearance on this show
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