Techstrong Gang
Techstrong Gang is Techstrong TV’s daily roundtable on AI, cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud and digital transformation. Hosted by Alan Shimel with rotating experts, the show breaks down the stories shaping enterprise technology.
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NVIDIA's AI Cloud Revenue Grab, the AI Confidant Survey and Hollywood's AI Reckoning
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.
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Apple-Broadcom AI Chip Deal, IBM's Mainframe Push and China's CUDA Challenge
Apple Broadcom AI chip partnership extends through 2031
Broadcom has secured a major long-term extension to supply custom semiconductors to Apple through 2031, according to regulatory filings reported by Techstrong Semi. The deal covers application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that will ...
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Google's Final Antitrust Defeat and the Rise of Forward-Deployed AI
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.
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AI Job Interviews, AI Coding Costs and Human Creativity
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.
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Open Source AI, OpenAI Copyright Fight and PACT Protocol
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.
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Windows 10 Concession, Anthropic Armistice and AI Crime Prediction
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.
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AI Chipnomics, Open Source Defense and PlatformCon Perspectives
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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AI's Impact on Platform Engineering
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard discuss AI’s impact on platform engineering, software development, security and the future of work from PlatformCon Live Day NYC.
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Quantum Race, China Supercomputing and Open-Source AI Independence
The race for compute power is becoming a defining global technology contest.
On this episode of Techstrong Gang, Mike Vizard is joined by Jon Swartz, Teri Robinson, JP Morgenthal, Wicki Wang and Andi Mann to examine three stories about national competitiveness, infrastructure and AI independence...
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AI Regulation Fight, Women Engineers and Anthropic Security Signals
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Sid Nag, break down the fight over AI regulation, backlash to Jeff Bezos’ AI infrastructure comments, why engineering needs every great mind it can find and new security warnings around frontier AI models.
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Apple-Intel Deal, GPS Interference and AI’s Job Market Shakeup
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Stephen Foskett, Jon Swartz and Elizabeth Safran, break down the reported Apple-Intel chip deal, GPS and orbital interference concerns, and how AI is reshaping expectations for entry-level workers.
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OpenAI Under Fire as AWS Expands AI and Anthropic Backs Carbon
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Jon Swartz and Gina Rosenthal, break down OpenAI’s multistate regulatory probe and Florida lawsuit, AWS’s expanding AI push across software supply chain and DevOps workflows, and Anthropic joining Frontier’s $915 million carbon removal initiative.
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SpaceX Captures Cursor as Databricks Expands and Nadella Warns on AI
Alan Shimel, Jon Swartz, Teri Robinson and JP Morgenthal, break down SpaceX’s reported $60 billion move to acquire Cursor, Databricks’ push into AI agents, cost controls and cybersecurity, and Satya Nadella’s warning about AI centralization hollowing out industries.
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OpenAI Cuts Prices, Huang Calls Out CEOs and Cyber Hits $521B
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Chris Blask, Jon Swartz and Kate Scarcella, break down reports of an OpenAI price war with Anthropic, Jensen Huang’s criticism of leaders blaming AI for layoffs and the forecast that cybersecurity spending could reach $521.7 billion by 2031.
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Anthropic Fallout, AI Sovereignty Fights and SpaceX Soars | Techstrong Gang
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Jon Swartz, Garima Bajpai and Yvette Schmitter, break down the Anthropic fallout, rising sovereignty fights over AI and cloud infrastructure and SpaceX’s record-setting surge.
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Chipflation, Agentic DevOps and the New AI Governance Problem
Host Mike Vizard is joined by Jeff Reich, Jack Gold, Jon Swartz and Tracy Ragan to break down rising chip costs, the expanding role of AI across DevOps workflows and IBM’s warning that AI agents are raising the governance burden for technology leaders.
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AI Agents Start Shopping, AI Designs Vaccines and Zero Trust Gets Serious
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Jon Swartz and Ira, break down Visa and OpenAI building payment infrastructure for AI agents, a new AI-designed universal vaccine tested in humans and the push for zero-trust security around agentic AI.
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Anthropic Hits the Brakes, ShinyHunters Breaks Trust and China Builds AI
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Fred Wilmot, Teri Robinson and Jon Swartz, break down Anthropic’s new safety brakes for Mythos AI, the trust tactics driving ShinyHunters and China’s massive AI infrastructure push.
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Apple Pushes AI, OpenAI Files and SpaceX Teams With Google
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Sid Nag, break down Apple’s WWDC AI push, OpenAI’s confidential filing and SpaceX’s reported AI cloud deal with Google.
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Semiconductors, AI Control Warnings and Data Center Pushback
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Barbara Roos, Brendan Burke, Dan O’Brien and Garima Bajpai, break down why semiconductors now drive every serious AI conversation, why control warnings are intensifying and why data center opposition is rising.
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AI Taxes, Cyber Force Pressure and Agent Payments
Mike Vizard is joined by Jeff Reich, Jack Poller and Jon Swartz to break down proposals for AI taxes and wealth funds, the growing case for a U.S. Cyber Force and AWS’s preview of micropayments for AI agents.
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EU Wants Tech Independence, AI Costs Climb and Security Anxiety Grows
Mike Vizard is joined by Gina Rosenthal, Mitch Ashley and Jon Swartz to break down Europe’s push for tech sovereignty, the rising complexity of AI cost management and growing security anxiety as frontier AI access expands.
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Microsoft Pushes AI, Trump Resets Rules and Cisco Wants Control
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Tom Hollingsworth, Andi Mann and Jon Swartz, break down Microsoft’s latest AI push, the Trump administration’s scaled-back executive order and Cisco’s effort to own the control layer for AI infrastructure.
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Anthropic Goes Big, NVIDIA Expands AI and Microsoft’s Security Fight Escalates
Mike Vizard is joined by Anne Ahola Ward, Sid Nag, Chris Blask and Kate Scarcella to break down Anthropic’s major IPO moment, NVIDIA’s new AI PC and robotics push, and the escalating dispute between Microsoft and a security researcher.