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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Apple has filed a sweeping lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a sustained campaign to steal confidential hardware trade secrets as OpenAI expands into consumer devices. On today's Techstrong Gang, Mike Vizard, Alan Shimel, Stephen Foskett, Elizabeth Safran and Yvette Schmitter break down Apple's claims against OpenAI, its hardware unit io Products, and two named former Apple engineers — plus what it means for the now-unraveling Apple-OpenAI partnership.

Meta answers with three AI moves of its own: the Muse Spark 1.1 coding/agentic model aimed at OpenAI and Anthropic, an internal claim that its "Watermelon" model matches GPT-5.5, and a new AI cloud business to monetize its $125-145B infrastructure spend. Plus, backlash over Meta's consent-free Muse Image photo tool.

And: SAP avoids an EU antitrust fine with a decade of licensing and support policy changes.

Hosts: Mike Vizard, Alan Shimel Guests: Stephen Foskett, Elizabeth Safran, Yvette Schmitter