Techstrong Gang

OpenClaw's new governance Foundation and NVIDIA/LangChain's 10x-cheaper NemoClaw Blueprint headline today's Techstrong Gang. Plus four new software supply chain attacks — Cordyceps, GhostApproval, HalluSquatting and North Korea's PolinRider — and Shandong University's TrojPix air-gap exfiltration technique.

A Windows device ID caught an alleged Scattered Spider hacker despite VPN use. China's NVDB flags a "backdoor" in Anthropic's Claude Code. Ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke unveils a distributed Git network for AI agents. And Alan Shimel makes the case that AI didn't steal your thinking — you gave it away.

NVIDIA now takes a cut of AI cloud revenue, not just hardware sales. A YouGov survey reveals how deeply AI has embedded into young Americans' personal lives. And Hollywood fights over AI actress Tilly Norwood, Scorsese, and Google's A24 deal. Techstrong Gang breaks it all down.

Apple locks in Broadcom through 2031 for custom AI silicon. IBM posts its best mainframe revenue in 20 years. Techstrong Gang breaks down what's next in the AI infrastructure race.

Europe's top court just delivered Google's final antitrust defeat, while Microsoft and AWS pour billions into forward-deployed AI engineering to win the enterprise deployment race. The conversation also covers AI's first autonomous mission to the Moon.

Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard are joined by Jon Swartz, Barbara Roos and Robert Reeves to discuss America at 250, open platform freedom, the AI intelligence grid and export controls on advanced AI models.

Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard are joined by Andi Mann, Jeff Reich, Chris Blask and Jon Swartz to discuss AI-powered job interviews, rising AI coding costs, AI-generated code in production and why human imagination still matters as AI tools become more capable.

Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard are joined by Kate Scarcella and Chris Blask to discuss open source AI economics, escalating copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, and the PACT protocol for distinguishing trusted AI agents from malicious bots.

Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard are joined by Stephen Foskett and Jon Swartz to discuss Microsoft extending Windows 10 security updates, the White House easing restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and the debate over AI-powered crime prediction.

Mike Vizard is joined by Jon Swartz, Jack Poller, Tracy Ragan and Jeff Reich to break down OpenAI and Broadcom’s custom Jalapeño AI chip, Qualcomm’s Modular acquisition, TSMC price pressure, new efforts to defend open source software and key takeaways from PlatformCon.