Techstrong Gang
OpenAI Goes Agentic, Drone Crackdowns, and AI Inference Surge | TSG Ep. 1021
17-Feb-2026
Alan, Mike, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Sid Nag return to the controversy surrounding the open source OpenClaw agent following the hiring of its creator by Open AI.
Then the gang dives into the drone controversy that has emerged among various branches of government before wishing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) a happy 10th birthday.
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