Techstrong Gang

Alan, Mike, Jon, Ira Winkler, Fred Wilmot, Jack Poller and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for the Futurum Group dive into an emerging payola scandal roiling the CISO community before discussing the degree to which back doors into IT environments might ever be closed.

Then the gang debates the merits of a MIT report that finds 95% of internal artificial intelligence (AI) projects have failed.

Alan, Mike, Jon, Teri Robinson and Sanjeev Sharma dive into the implications of the latest financial lifeline being thrown to Intel by the U.S. government and Softbank.

Then the gang takes a look at how large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) agents are being used by red teams to simulate cyberattacks before discussing the amount of IT infrastructure that is being consumed by AI bots.

Alan, Mike. Mitch. Chis Blask, Kate Scarcella and Futurum president and COO Dan O'Brien discuss the degree to which CIOs are becoming more flexible and astute when it comes to deploying application workloads before debating the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) agents might transform the fundamental economics of IT.

Then the gang turns its attention to how citizen and professional application developers might, hopefully, better collaborate in the age of AI.

Alan, Mike, JP Morgenthal and Stephen Foskett, president for The Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group, dive into reports that suggest Apple is gearing up to make a major artificial intelligence (AI) push starting next year before delving into the implications of some recent licensing changes that Microsoft is making to its volume discount plan for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

Then the gang takes a look at data center location rates that have fallen yet again to an all-time low of 2.3% in the U.S.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jack Poller and Wicky Wang dive into an application security report that finds more breaches than ever are being caused by vulnerabilities in code that organizations are allowing to be deployed despite the level of risk they represent to their end customers.

Then the gang takes a look at the impact the Cyber Reliance Act (CRA) being advanced by the European Union (EU) is likely to have on cybersecurity before discussing the implications of allowing 401K investment funds to invest in cryptocurrency and other risky investment vehicles

Alan, Mike. Jon, Fred Wilmot and Ira Winkler dive into the cybersecurity implications of a meeting taking place in Alaska today between President Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Then the gang delves into the quality of the code being generated by artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools before discussing the viability of brain computer interface (BCI) projects.

Today on the gang, Garima, Jon, Mike and Mitch are joined by Futurum CEO, Daniel Newman, to announce Futurum Signal, the latest innovation to usher in a new era in the analyst/guidance industry. The gang then goes on to discuss Perplexity's $34b plus offer for Google Chrome, PR stunt or serious? And in a case of how quickly things change in the world of US politics and semis, the Intel CEO is now back in the good graces of the White House. Hmm, what could have made that happen? Another day at the Gang. Enjoy!

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Chris Blask and Kate Scarcella assess the implications of the resignation of the CEO of GitHub before delving into what led OpenText to look for a new CEO.

Then the gang dives into a 15% surcharge for graphical processor units (GPUs) that NVIDIA and AMD will be passing on to customers in China on behalf of the U.S. government.

Alan, Mike and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group, dive into reactions to the latest capabilities being made available in ChatGPT-5 from Open AI.

Then the gang discusses the battle for data center contracts taking place between regions of the U.S. before delving into the role nuclear energy might play in mitigating an emerging crisis.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Tracy Ragan and Jack Poller debate the degree to which calls for the CEO of Intel to resign because of unsubstantiated ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are justified.

Then the gang assesses the validity of a survey of C-level executives that claim to be seeing massive returns from investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate software development before discussing the current state of cybersecurity in the wake of the Black Hat USA 2025 conference.