AI Power Public Backlash and Open Model Risk Collide
Techstrong Gang
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28-May-2026
Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot and Gina Rosenthal break down three stories shaping the next phase of AI infrastructure, public resistance and model safety.
The first segment, IBM and Red Hat are bringing together what they’ve learned from frontier AI models and 20,000 engineers to launch Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative aimed at helping enterprises better secure their open source software.
The second segment, NVIDIA Corp. CEO Jensen Huang announced on Wednesday that the artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant plans to ramp up its annual spending in Taiwan to about $150 billion.
The final segment, Open Source AI Oops, examines reports that free software can strip guardrails from open AI models from major players like Meta and Google. The bigger issue is whether open access is colliding with safety in ways the industry still is not ready to manage.
From AI geopolitics to local resistance to model safety, today’s show is about where the AI boom is running into real-world consequences.
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