Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Mark Hinkle and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into a debate that is raging over the business value of investments being made in generative artificial intelligence (AI).

Then, the gang reviews a Congressional hearing that surfaced what CrowdStrike is doing to make sure there isn’t another catastrophic outage caused by a software update. Finally, they delve into the threat that patent trolls represent to the economic vitality of the open source software community.