Mike, Alan, Mitch, Jon and Teri Robsinson parse dueling artificial intelligence (AI) strategies put forward this week by Oracle and Salesforce before taking a look at an AI platform from Red Hat that promises to make it simpler to deploy AI workloads across a distributed computing environment.

Then the gang takes a look at the current state of cybersecurity at a time when the rate of technological innovation may now be faster than organizations can effectively secure.

Mike Vizard, Mitch Ashley, Dan O’Brien, and Chris Blask explore how Broadcom’s partnership with OpenAI is transforming the AI chip market, driving innovation in custom silicon and improving inference performance.

The Techstrong Gang also discusses Microsoft’s integration of GitHub into Azure, emphasizing the growing need for cybersecurity-first development. The conversation highlights how embedding security in the coding process and continuously improving IT practices are critical for the next wave of AI-driven infrastructure.

Alan, Mike, Sanjeev Sharma and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of Futurum Group, dive into how the latest escalation in in the ongoing tariff wars will impact adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

Then the gang takes a look at the IT service management (ITSM) wars now that Salesforce has entered the market before discussing to what degree has the storage of unstructured data become a hoarding problem.

Host Alan Shimel is joined by Camberley Bates, Robert Reeves, Jack Poller, and Jack Gold to explore the expanding API economy and its impact on enterprise systems and revenue — especially in the telecommunications sector.

The gang discusses how agentic AI leverages APIs to improve efficiency in energy and server consumption, while also examining the challenges of modern data center construction and the implications of large-scale AI investments in today’s fast-evolving market landscape.

Alan, Mike, Jon and Gina Rosenthal take a look at the state of DevOps in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing the impact AI agents might have on the way IT is managed.

The gang then dives into the need for greater IT resiliency following a New Relic report that puts the cost of downtime at $2 million an hour.

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, and Jeff Reich break down the Nobel Prize–winning advancements in quantum computing and what they mean for the future of technology.

The Gang explores how breakthroughs in qubits, post-quantum cryptography, and quantum entanglement are paving the way toward practical applications. They also examine the energy demands of both AI and quantum computing — and how these two fields may ultimately converge to shape a smarter, more secure future.

Alan, Mike, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Futurum Group president and COO Dan O'Brien dive into how IT infrastructure will need to rapidly evolve to enable agentic artificial intelligence (AI) applications to efficiently run before discussing what's causing an alarming increase of fires in data centers.

Then the gang dives into a misplaced tendency to blame third-party service providers whenever there is a cybersecurity issue even though the ultimate responsibility for a problem that arose can never be outsourced.

Alan, Mike, JP Morgenthal, Chhaya Gunawat dive into the alliance between OpenAI and AMD as part of a larger discussion about the rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator advances.

Then the gang turns its attention to the impact AI will have the cost of compliance before taking a look at some of the latest cybersecurity technologies developed by Microsoft

Alan, Mike, Tracy Ragan, Camberley Bates and Jack Poller dive into a report that finds artificial intelligence (AI) has had no discernible impact on employment levels before discussing why so many platform engineering teams have embraced AI.

Then the gang takes a look at the inherent cybersecurity risks that will arise as robots become more widely used at work and in the home.

Mike, Jon, Fred Wilmot and Anne Ahola Ward dive into the cybersecurity implications of a decision to, for now at least, not fund the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA).

Then the gang takes a look at the need for more comprehensive approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) training before delving into what degree AI will transform filmmaking now that there are AI actors.