Live from RSAC, Techstrong Gang brings together Alan Shimel, Jon Swartz, Mitch Ashley and Michelle McLean to unpack how government is reshaping the future of AI and cybersecurity. The conversation explores the State Department’s new […]

On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Tom and Matt Alderman dive into three major forces reshaping cybersecurity and global technology strategy. The conversation begins with Google’s dark web scanning initiative and what it actually […]

Live from RSAC 2026, Techstrong Gang brings together Alan Shimel, Jon Swartz, Christine Nidle, Vibhuti Sinha and Lakshmi Hanspal for a wide-ranging conversation on some of the biggest cybersecurity issues facing the industry right now.
The panel begins with the new Women in Security documentary a...

On Techstrong Gang, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Jack Poller and Guy Currier break down three stories shaping enterprise tech right now: SAP’s shift toward premium AI-driven workflows, the renewed privacy clash over FBI purchases of location data, and Meta’s struggle to contain a rogue AI incident af...

Tariff policies under the Trump administration are putting real pressure on technology companies. What’s billed as economic strategy is creating instability and raising fresh concerns about American competitiveness. History suggests government overreach rarely ends well, and the tech sector is al...

On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Jon Swartz, Teri Robinson, Jack Poller and Andi Mann dive into OpenAI’s push to create an adults-only version of ChatGPT before debating the Trump administration’s effort to combat cybercrime. The gang then looks at how a software engineer inadvertently gained acc...

On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz, Chris Blask and Kate Scarcella dive into NVIDIA’s latest artificial intelligence initiatives, including a general-purpose AI agent alternative to OpenClaw, before unpacking what it now means to be an application developer in the age of AI...

On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Stephen Foskett, Garima Bajpai and Blake Hendricks break down three major stories shaping tech right now: how prediction markets can start influencing the outcomes they are supposed to forecast, why Ukraine is offering battlefield data to drone partne...

On Techstrong Gang, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Tracy Ragan, Jack Poller and Guy Currier break down three major stories shaping tech right now: Musk’s Macrohard project as legal scrutiny grows, a new report showing lower-performing software engineering teams are seeing some of the biggest gains from...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how organizations build, deploy and manage technology — but not without new challenges.

In this episode of Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, JP Morgenthal and Garima Bajpai explore the challenges IT leaders face managing projects in the age of artifi...

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot, Anne Ahola Ward and Gina Rosenthal dive into a pair of reports that, despite advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, suggest most IT and cybersecurity professionals remain highly stressed.

Then the gang delves into a report find...

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Mitch Ashley, Teri Robinson and Andi Mann dive into the latest episode of the artificial intelligence soap opera drama involving OpenAI and Anthropic before delving into how scammers are inserting phone numbers into AI overviews to dupe the unwary.

Then the ...

AI agents are evolving rapidly — and so are the risks.
In TSG Ep. 1031, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Sid Nag revisit OpenClaw and examine what its continued adoption means for security, governance and operational control.
The panel then analyzes how generative AI tool...

Alan Shimel, Jon Swartz, Tracy Ragan, Jack Poller and Wickey Wang dive into the latest developments in the standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon.

Then the gang takes a look at how artificial intelligence (AI) agents are about to transform the way we work and the way software is developed, ...

Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot and Gina Rosenthal dive into the controversy over artificial intelligence (AI) safety that ultimately caused Anthropic to acquiesce to the demands of the U.S. military, before reviewing a claim President Trump made about requiring providers of AI services to b...

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Teri Robinson and Jack Poller dive into a wave of speculation predicting the demise of multiple classes of application providers in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) agents before assessing the impact AI might have on the overall economy.

Then the gang...

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitch Ashley, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Sid Nag dive into the politics of artificial intelligence (AI) following a pledge to promote innovation that 88 countries have signed, before delving into the identity management issues that will arise as more AI agents are d...

Are technology providers responsible for reporting potential criminal activity on their platforms?

On today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Stephen Foskett and Garima Bajpai examine whether companies such as Apple and OpenAI are culpable for failing to alert authorities about potent...