Techstrong Gang examines the agent-framework race, Kubernetes security fundamentals and the DevOps-to-platform-engineering shift underway in 2026.

Techstrong Gang is tracking three AI risk lines that are getting harder to ignore: anti-AI hostility turning physical, new clarity around Anthropic's refusal to work with the Pentagon, and the visibility gap around AI agents already operating inside enterprise environments.

The panel unpacks how...

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella, Sid Nag and Anne Ahola Ward dive into how security professionals are responding to new initiatives from OpenAI and Anthropic to use more advanced AI models to discover software vulnerabilities.

The gang then turns to a research effort aimed...

Platform engineering may be getting more attention, but for many teams it still looks a lot like improvised theater instead of a disciplined operating model.

On this episode of Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitch Ashley, Katie Scarcella, Robert Reeves and Garima Bajpai dig into the ...

Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Tracy Ragan, Jack Poller, Wickey Wang and Futurum Group analyst Guy Currier connect three enterprise AI storylines.

First, they break down how ServiceNow just made AI, data governance and workflow automation native in every SKU—Context Engine, Build Agent skills and the...

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot, Gina Rosenthal and Anne Ahola Ward connect three fast-moving Techstrong stories. First, they trace how the CIA’s “Ghost Murmur” quantum magnetometry rig tracked a weapons systems officer’s heartbeat across the Iranian desert before Tehran could. ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Teri Robinson, Andi Mann and Futurum analyst Guy Currier break down OpenAI’s proposed “New Deal” for the age of superintelligence, including what a people-first AI industrial policy could actually mean for the future of work, wealth and infrastructure.

Then the gang digs into ...

Today on Techstrong TV, we’re diving into a full playlist focused on the growing gap between AI innovation and the reality of securing and operating it at scale.

If you’re hearing the hype around agentic AI but wondering what it actually takes to make it work inside the enterprise, this is the o...

Why does the world feel so unstable right now? In this episode of Shimmy Says, Alan Shimel breaks down the collision of forces reshaping the global economy in real time: the AI arms race, mass infrastructure spending, tech layoffs, power-hungry data centers, rising debt and the growing pressure o...

Alan Shimel is joined by Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot, Gina Rosenthal and Futurum Group analyst Guy Currier to unpack the stories driving today’s enterprise headlines.

First up: developers leaning on Anthropic’s Claude Code are running out of tokens mid-sprint, forcing teams to rethink how they budg...

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Andi Mann, and Teri Robinson dissect the “AI showdown” between statehouses and the White House—why California, Colorado, and New York are rushing their own rules, and what that fragmentation means for every SaaS vendor and compliance team.

They also explore ...

On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Sig Nag dive into Microsoft and Anthropic’s growing AI alignment before unpacking a report that finds bots, AI tools and autonomous agents now outnumber humans […]

NVIDIA is no longer just selling chips—it is becoming a central force in the future of AI infrastructure and security.
On this episode of the Security Boulevard podcast, Tom Hollingsworth, Alan Shimel, and Mitch Ashley break down NVIDIA’s growing security ecosystem and what it means for the enter...

On Techstrong Gang, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Guy Currier, Tracy Ragan and Jack Poller break down three stories shaping tech right now.

First, the gang examines the implications of a Los Angeles jury finding Meta and Google negligent in a landmark case over algorithms designed to addict minors to...

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...

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...

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...