Techstrong Gang

Mike, Jon, Fred Wilmot and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into a disclosure made by Anthropic that revealed how an artificial intelligence (AI) model may be capable of blackmailing human beings.

Then the gang turns its attention to the latest international intrigue involving the making of advanced semiconductors as the Trump administration prepares to limit access to chip making equipment before taking a look at an order from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that requires GoDaddy to improve cybersecurity.

Mike, Jon and Teri Robinson dive into the motivations driving an $8 billion acquisition of Informatica being made by Salesforce.

Then the gang takes a look at the level of progress being made in terms of adopting best DevSecOps practices before revisiting the latest tariff threats to Apple being made by President Trump.

Alan, Mike, Chris Blask and Guy Currier, an analyst with The Futurum Group, dive into a big beautiful bill that puts all responsibility for artificial intelligence (AI) regulation in the hands of the Federal government.

Then the gang assesses the relevance of Java as the programming language turns 30 before taking a look at the progress being made toward adoption of post-quantum encryption.

Alan, Mike, Tracy Ragan, Chris Blask and Jack Poller dive into the controversy over Microsoft Recall now that Signal has found a way to turn off the screen capture technology in Windows 11 before discussing to what degree are cybersecurity professionals addicted to too many tools.

Then the gang takes a look at CloudBees effort to unify DevOps workflows in the age of platform engineering.

Alan, Mike, Jon  and Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the implications of a $6.5B acquisition of a  hardware company founded by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive that made by OpenAI before delving in an ambitious agentic artificial intelligence (AI) initiative launched by SAP.

Then the gang takes a look at how Dell’s infrastructure strategy is evolving in the age of AI.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon, Anne Ahola Ward, and Fred Wilmot dive into a survey from The Futurum Group that surfaces high rates of platform engineering adoption.

Then the gang reviews the latest artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives being launched independently by Google and Red Hat.

In today's episode, the gang discusses the all-out push by Microsoft regarding Agentic ai. Next the gang tackles a rash of new announcements by Nvidia as they continue to lead from the front of the AI market. Finally, the gang looks at another new security framework to integrate security into IT and appdev

Mike, Bonnie, Futurum analyst Guy Currer and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group dive into the future of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps).

Then the gang takes a look at the impact agentic AI will have on analytics following a Qlik Connect event before delving into the impact generative AI is having on application modernization.

Alan, Mike, Jon, Teri Robinson and Futurum Group analyst Guy Currier dive into the growing feud between Apple and President Donald Trump before discussing the latest controversy to engulf the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).Then the gang turns its attention to a move by Salesforce to acquire Convergence.ai to shore up its ability to build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents.

Alan, Mike and Jon dive into the $1 billion acquisition of Neon, a provider of serverless database platform, made this week by Databricks.

Then the gang discusses how robotic process automation (RPA) is evolving in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) following an Automation Anywhere event before musing about the impact open source software and hardware will have on robotics.