Techstrong Gang

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hosts Alan Shimel and Mike Vizard, joined by Tom Hollingsworth, Andi Mann and Jon Swartz, break down Microsoft’s latest AI push, the Trump administration’s scaled-back executive order and Cisco’s effort to own the control layer for AI infrastructure.

Mike Vizard is joined by Anne Ahola Ward, Sid Nag, Chris Blask and Kate Scarcella to break down Anthropic’s major IPO moment, NVIDIA’s new AI PC and robotics push, and the escalating dispute between Microsoft and a security researcher.

Mike Vizard, Stephen Foskett and Garima Bajpai break down the reported expansion of U.S. surveillance toward anti-technology extremists, the automation layer’s push to own enterprise AI and the new clean-tech effort backed by major tech companies.

Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Jack Poller, Jack Gold and Jeff Reich break down three stories showing where the AI era is colliding with business reality, public resistance and strategic competition. The first segment, No AI Jobs Apocalypse After All, looks at the growing retreat from earlier “AI jobs apocalypse” predictions as tech leaders face pressure to show revenue, not just disruption. The second segment, AI Contamination, turns to the backlash against AI data centers. Erin Brockovich is targeting local opposition, and state-level policymakers are beginning to respond as environmental and community concerns grow louder. The final segment, Quantum Arms Race, focuses on Washington’s new $2 billion push into quantum computing and what it signals about the next phase of national computing competition. From jobs and infrastructure to quantum competition, today’s show is about where the AI boom is meeting real-world constraints.