Techstrong Gang
Techstrong Gang is your go-to weekday show on Techstrong TV and your favorite podcast platform, bringing together a rotating lineup of top thought leaders and technologists to break down the biggest stories and trends shaping the tech world. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitchell Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin, Tracy Ragan, Sulagna Saha, Anne Ahola Ward, Bonnie Schneider, and more, the show dives deep into everything from DevOps and cybersecurity to AI and cloud innovation. Tune in Monday through Friday for insightful discussions, expert analysis, and lively debates on the issues that matter most to today’s tech professionals.
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Episodes
4 hours ago
4 hours ago
Alan Shimel, Jon Swartz, Teri Robinson and JP Morgenthal, break down SpaceX’s reported $60 billion move to acquire Cursor, Databricks’ push into AI agents, cost controls and cybersecurity, and Satya Nadella’s warning about AI centralization hollowing out industries.
2 days ago
2 days ago
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Chris Blask and Kate Scarcella, break down reports of an OpenAI price war with Anthropic, Jensen Huang’s criticism of leaders blaming AI for layoffs and the forecast that cybersecurity spending could reach $521.7 billion by 2031.
3 days ago
3 days ago
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Jon Swartz, Garima Bajpai and Yvette Schmitter, break down the Anthropic fallout, rising sovereignty fights over AI and cloud infrastructure and SpaceX’s record-setting surge.
6 days ago
6 days ago
Host Mike Vizard is joined by Jeff Reich, Jack Gold, Jon Swartz and Tracy Ragan to break down rising chip costs, the expanding role of AI across DevOps workflows and IBM’s warning that AI agents are raising the governance burden for technology leaders.
7 days ago
7 days ago
Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Jon Swartz and Ira, break down Visa and OpenAI building payment infrastructure for AI agents, a new AI-designed universal vaccine tested in humans and the push for zero-trust security around agentic AI.
Wednesday Jun 10, 2026
Wednesday Jun 10, 2026
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Fred Wilmot, Teri Robinson and Jon Swartz, break down Anthropic’s new safety brakes for Mythos AI, the trust tactics driving ShinyHunters and China’s massive AI infrastructure push.
Tuesday Jun 09, 2026
Tuesday Jun 09, 2026
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Sid Nag, break down Apple’s WWDC AI push, OpenAI’s confidential filing and SpaceX’s reported AI cloud deal with Google.
Monday Jun 08, 2026
Monday Jun 08, 2026
Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Barbara Roos, Brendan Burke, Dan O’Brien and Garima Bajpai, break down why semiconductors now drive every serious AI conversation, why control warnings are intensifying and why data center opposition is rising.
Friday Jun 05, 2026
Friday Jun 05, 2026
Mike Vizard is joined by Jeff Reich, Jack Poller and Jon Swartz to break down proposals for AI taxes and wealth funds, the growing case for a U.S. Cyber Force and AWS’s preview of micropayments for AI agents.
Thursday Jun 04, 2026
Thursday Jun 04, 2026
Mike Vizard is joined by Gina Rosenthal, Mitch Ashley and Jon Swartz to break down Europe’s push for tech sovereignty, the rising complexity of AI cost management and growing security anxiety as frontier AI access expands.