Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Fred Wilmot, Chris Blask and Gina Rosenthal break down three stories shaping the enterprise AI conversation right now: MIT’s effort to improve how LLMs answer accurately, Salesforce’s push to automate backend office workflows with agentic AI, and rising demand for senior cybersecurity talent as AI raises the stakes for security teams.

The episode starts with AI the Liar, looking at MIT research aimed at making large language models produce more accurate answers. From there, the gang turns to Salesforce’s agentic AI platform, which the company says can automate and modernize fragmented back-office workflows using specialized agents and auditable digital blueprints.

The final segment focuses on cybersecurity hiring pressure. A Fortinet-commissioned survey of 2,750 cybersecurity and IT professionals found that 51% specifically need senior-level skills, 60% say finding cybersecurity talent with AI experience is their top security challenge and 87% expect to increase cybersecurity team size.

From model trust to workflow automation to the cyber skills gap, today’s show tracks where enterprise AI is creating both opportunity and strain.

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Jon Swartz, Chris Blask, Andi Mann and Teri Robinson break down three stories that show how quickly AI is colliding with real-world risk: a Cursor/Claude-powered coding agent tied to a Railway production data-loss scare, the Trump administration’s push to use AI to modernize air traffic planning, and the FBI-led takedown of the W3LL phishing-kit ecosystem tied to more than $20 million in attempted fraud.

The first segment looks at what happens when agentic coding tools get too much power in production. Reports say the PocketOS incident involved deletion of a production database and recent backups after an AI agent used a destructive Railway API path; Railway later recovered service quickly and patched the endpoint, but the episode exposed major questions around permissions, rollback design and human oversight.

The second segment turns to aviation. The FAA’s broader modernization push includes new software intended to improve airspace management and reduce disruption, while SMART-style planning tools are being positioned as a move from reactive to predictive operations. That raises the obvious question: where should AI sit inside a safety-critical system, and who owns accountability when predictive systems shape operational decisions?

The final segment focuses on phishing at industrial scale. The FBI says the W3LL phishing kit was sold for about $500, helped criminals impersonate trusted login pages, captured credentials and session data to bypass MFA, and was tied to over $20 million in attempted fraud; investigators also say W3LLSTORE facilitated sales of more than 25,000 compromised accounts from 2019 to 2023.

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The biggest week in AI just collided with the biggest week in software security. On today's Techstrong Gang , The gang breaks down three stories reshaping how the industry builds, ships, and defends software in 2026.

AI DETENTE — OpenAI and Microsoft have rewritten their partnership. OpenAI gets multi-cloud freedom (AWS, Google Cloud), Microsoft locks in long-term IP and revenue rights, and the Azure exclusivity that defined 2023-2025 is officially over. We unpack who actually won.

COPILOT LIMITS — GitHub paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+ and Student plans on April 20 and tightened weekly usage caps. Agentic coding sessions are burning 500,000+ tokens vs. ~100 for old-school autocomplete — and the flat-rate pricing model just broke. What this means for every other AI coding tool in 2026.

️ PROJECT GLASSWING — Microsoft is embedding Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview into its Security Development Lifecycle. Mythos already found a 17-year-old FreeBSD remote-code-execution flaw (CVE-2026-4747) autonomously during preview. Anthropic has privately warned U.S. officials that this same capability in attacker hands makes large-scale cyberattacks "significantly more likely" in 2026. Defense vs. offense — who's winning the AI security race?

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️ TODAY'S PANEL

Jon Swartz — Host, Techstrong TV

Mike Vizard — Editor-in-Chief, Techstrong Group

Kate Scarcella — Chief Architect, Cybersecurity, Trusted AI

Sid Nag — VP Analyst, Gartner

Anne Ahola Ward — CEO, CircleClick

Alex Porter — CEO, Lunar Outpost

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SOURCES

OpenAI–Microsoft partnership reset: https://openai.com/blog

GitHub Copilot pause announcement: https://github.blog

Microsoft Security Blog on Project Glasswing

Anthropic Project Glasswing

CVE-2026-4747 (FreeBSD NFS RCE): https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4747

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