Mark Zuckerberg gave four rare interviews this week — a WSJ opinion piece plus sit-downs with the FT and NYT — arguing that the defining question of the AI era is who controls superintelligence, not whether it arrives, and pushing for "personal superintelligence" distributed broadly rather than concentrated in a few labs. Techstrong.ai's Alan Shimel flags the contradiction: Meta open-sourced Llama in 2023 because it was behind, and its new Muse Spark model — built after a $14.3 billion Scale AI investment — is closed and now sold commercially. Separately, a new Futurum Group survey of 839 IT decision-makers finds 54% of organizations run AI across more than half their SDLC, but 75% have hit a production issue confirmed attributable to AI; Futurum's Mitch Ashley says vendors that can't prove developer value "will lose the renewal conversation." And Alan Shimel argues cloud native didn't get replaced by AI — it got inherited by it, since Kubernetes already solved the scheduling, identity, and governance problems AI now faces. Today's Techstrong Gang panel: hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, with Jon Swartz, Mitch Ashley, and Robert Reeves.