# AZ Computer Guru Radio Show Prep
## Saturday, April 11, 2026

**Show Date:** April 11, 2026
**Research Date:** April 10, 2026
**Format:** 4 segments, 12-16 minutes each

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## COMMON THREAD
**"The Hidden Price Tags: What the AI Revolution Really Costs"**

Everyone's talking about AI's amazing capabilities, but this week the bills started coming due. $7 trillion for infrastructure. Nuclear power plants for data centers. 78,000 jobs lost. Security nightmares from shadow AI. Meanwhile, humans just accomplished something AI never could: four astronauts splashed down yesterday after circling the Moon. It's time to talk about what AI really costs—and what it can't replace.

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## SEGMENT 1: "They Came Home Yesterday" (10-12 min)

### Opening
"Before we dive into AI chaos, let's celebrate something remarkable that happened yesterday afternoon. Four humans just returned from the Moon—and it went perfectly."

### Story: Artemis II Splashdown - April 10, 2026
**Mission Summary:**
- Launched: April 1, 2026
- Splashdown: April 10, 2026, 8:07 PM EDT
- Location: Pacific Ocean, 40-50 miles off San Diego coast
- Duration: 10 days (originally planned as 9-day mission)
- Crew: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch (NASA), Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (Canadian Space Agency)

**Historic Achievement - April 6:**
- At 1:56 PM EDT, crew reached 248,655 miles from Earth
- Broke Apollo 13's record (set in 1970) for farthest distance humans have ever traveled
- First time humans left Earth orbit in 54 years

**Splashdown:**
- Orion capsule landed safely in Pacific Ocean
- NASA and U.S. military recovery team retrieved crew
- Helicopter transport to USS John P. Murtha
- Post-mission medical evaluations aboard ship
- Aircraft transport to Johnson Space Center in Houston

**Talking Points:**
- This happened YESTERDAY - April 10, 2026, 8:07 PM
- Perfect splashdown, textbook recovery
- No AI could do this - required human judgment, training, courage
- Victor Glover: First African American to leave Earth orbit
- Christina Koch: Holds record for longest single spaceflight by a woman
- Jeremy Hansen: First non-American to fly to the Moon
- Contrast: While everyone obsesses over AI, humans just went to the Moon and back
- This is what we can accomplish when we focus on the hard stuff
- Apollo 13 held the distance record for 56 years - Artemis II just broke it
- Next: Artemis III will LAND on the Moon (tentatively 2027)

**Why This Matters:**
- Proves human space exploration is back
- Tests systems for Mars missions
- International cooperation (U.S./Canada partnership)
- Reminder that some things still require human capability
- While AI struggles with security and costs, humans just went 248,655 miles from home

### Segment Transition
"So that's the good news. Humans just pulled off something incredible. Now let's talk about what's going wrong with AI—starting with a price tag that'll make your head spin."

**Time: 10-12 minutes**

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## SEGMENT 2: "The $7 Trillion Bill Just Arrived" (14-16 min)

### Opening
"If you thought AI was expensive, you haven't seen anything yet. Industry leaders just announced that building the infrastructure for AI will cost SEVEN TRILLION DOLLARS. With a T."

### Story 1: AI Infrastructure Needs $7 Trillion Investment
**The Numbers:**
- Estimated $7 trillion needed for AI data center expansions
- Driven by: Compute power demand, energy requirements, cooling systems
- Industry leaders' estimate published April 7, 2026

**Talking Points:**
- $7 TRILLION - that's more than Germany's entire GDP
- This isn't for AI development - this is just to POWER it
- Three big costs: Computing hardware, electricity, cooling
- Why cooling? AI data centers generate massive heat
- Current infrastructure can't handle AI's power demands
- This is on top of the $297 billion in startup funding we talked about last week
- Question: Who's paying for this? Investors, taxpayers, your electric bill?

### Story 2: Big Tech Goes Nuclear
**The News:**
- Reuters report (April 10): Major tech companies investing in next-generation nuclear power
- Goal: Reliable electricity for power-hungry AI data centers
- Nuclear = 24/7 power, no weather dependency

**Talking Points:**
- Tech companies are building NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
- Why? Because solar and wind can't keep up with AI's power demands
- AI needs constant, massive power - can't wait for sunny days
- This is next-generation nuclear (smaller, safer designs)
- But still: We're building nuclear plants to run chatbots
- Environmental paradox: Clean energy source, but massive consumption
- Timeline: These plants take years to build, AI needs power NOW
- Interim solution: Burning more fossil fuels (undermining climate goals)

### Story 3: Energy-Efficient Chip Design
**The Innovation:**
- UC San Diego researchers developed new chip design
- Could make data centers "far more energy-efficient"
- Rethinks how power is converted for GPUs

**Talking Points:**
- This is the good news - researchers trying to fix the power problem
- Current chips waste enormous amounts of energy in power conversion
- New design could cut data center power consumption significantly
- But it's one research project vs. industry-wide infrastructure crisis
- Timeline: Years before this becomes widely adopted
- Meanwhile, we're still building nuclear plants

### Story 4: TSMC Blockbuster Growth
**The Numbers:**
- TSMC posted "blockbuster growth" in Q1 2026
- Reinforces that AI infrastructure is still accelerating
- Chip manufacturing can't keep up with demand

**Talking Points:**
- TSMC makes the chips that power AI
- Their growth shows AI infrastructure demand isn't slowing - it's accelerating
- This is the company building fabs in Arizona (Phoenix)
- Arizona's role: Making the chips that power the AI that needs nuclear plants
- Economic opportunity for Arizona, but also part of this massive infrastructure challenge

### Story 5: Intel-Musk Partnership
**The Announcement:**
- Intel joining Elon Musk's "Terafab AI chip complex" project
- Partnership with SpaceX and Tesla
- Goal: Make processors for Musk's robotics and data center ambitions
- Announced April 7, 2026

**Talking Points:**
- Intel + Musk + SpaceX + Tesla = massive AI chip manufacturing play
- "Terafab" = teraflops-scale fabrication (immense computing power)
- Musk's ambitions: Robotics (Tesla Bot), autonomous driving, data centers, AI
- Intel provides manufacturing expertise
- This is another massive infrastructure investment
- Pattern: Everyone building AI infrastructure at unprecedented scale

### Story 6: SpaceX $2 Trillion IPO Plans
**The News:**
- SpaceX advancing toward potential IPO
- Could value company at up to $2 TRILLION
- Would be one of largest public offerings ever

**Talking Points:**
- $2 trillion valuation - double OpenAI's $852 billion from last week
- SpaceX does rockets AND Starlink internet AND now AI infrastructure
- Musk positioning SpaceX for AI data center connectivity via Starlink
- IPO timing: Capitalize on AI infrastructure boom
- Question: Is a rocket company worth $2 trillion? If it's also powering AI, maybe
- Everything is merging: Space, internet, AI, power infrastructure

### Segment Wrap
"So let's recap: $7 trillion for infrastructure, nuclear power plants for data centers, new chip designs to save energy, record chip manufacturing growth, and a $2 trillion rocket company that's now in the AI business. The AI revolution isn't just expensive—it's restructuring the entire global economy."

**Time: 14-16 minutes**

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## SEGMENT 3: "The Security Nightmare You're Not Hearing About" (14-16 min)

### Opening
"While everyone's focused on AI's promise, there's a security crisis brewing that most people don't know about. It's called 'Shadow AI,' and it's probably happening at your company right now."

### Story 1: Shadow AI - The Invisible Security Threat
**The Problem:**
- Employees adopting AI tools without IT approval
- "Shadow AI" operates outside security team visibility
- Bypasses security controls entirely
- Reported April 9, 2026 (The Hacker News)

**Talking Points:**
- Remember "shadow IT"? This is worse.
- Employees using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot at work without permission
- Uploading company data to AI tools nobody knows about
- IT security teams have no visibility into what's being shared
- Example: Employee uploads customer database to ChatGPT to "analyze trends"
- That data is now in AI training data - potentially forever
- Companies can't protect what they don't know exists
- AI tools are free/cheap, so employees don't need approval to start using them
- By the time IT finds out, sensitive data has already leaked

**Scale of Problem:**
- Every company with employees likely has shadow AI
- No comprehensive audit trail
- Can't block access without blocking productivity
- Employees don't understand the risks

### Story 2: WordPress Plugin Hijack - Millions Affected
**The Attack:**
- Threat actors hijacked Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin update system
- Attack window: April 7-9, 2026
- Sites that updated during this window got "fully weaponized remote access toolkit"
- Detected approximately 6 hours after deployment began

**Talking Points:**
- Smart Slider 3 Pro: Popular WordPress plugin used by millions of sites
- Attackers compromised the UPDATE system - sites thought they were getting security patches
- Instead: Got remote access backdoor
- 6-hour window before detection
- How many sites updated during those 6 hours? Thousands, possibly tens of thousands
- This is a SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK - trusted update mechanism weaponized
- Once attackers have remote access, they can steal data, install ransomware, pivot to other systems
- Pattern we're seeing: Attackers targeting update mechanisms (remember LiteLLM from 2 weeks ago?)

**Why This Matters:**
- WordPress powers ~43% of all websites
- Plugin ecosystem is massive and loosely regulated
- Most site owners auto-update plugins for security
- That security mechanism became the attack vector
- Small plugin developers don't have security resources of big tech companies
- One compromised plugin = millions of potential victims

### Story 3: Marimo Python Notebook Vulnerability
**The Incident:**
- Critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Marimo
- Marimo: Open-source Python notebook tool (competitor to Jupyter)
- Bug publicly disclosed on April 10, 2026
- Attackers began exploiting 9 HOURS after disclosure
- Reported by SecurityWeek

**Talking Points:**
- 9 hours from disclosure to active exploitation
- That's the timeline now: Not weeks, not days - HOURS
- "Unauthenticated remote code execution" = attacker can run any code without logging in
- Worst possible vulnerability category
- Python notebooks are used for data science, AI development, research
- Often contain sensitive data, API keys, research findings
- Attackers targeting AI development tools specifically
- Pattern: AI tools are being built fast, security is an afterthought
- By the time security researchers publish vulnerabilities, attackers are already exploiting them

### Story 4: Anthropic's AI-Cyber Arms Race Warning
**The Warning:**
- Anthropic published warning on April 10, 2026
- 94% of cybersecurity leaders identify AI as primary driver of change in threat landscape
- Vulnerabilities discovered and exploited in "near real time"
- New phase in AI-cyber arms race

**Talking Points:**
- Anthropic makes Claude AI - they're in the AI business
- Even THEY are warning about AI-driven cyber threats
- "Near real time" exploitation - 9-hour Marimo timeline proves this
- AI is being used to find vulnerabilities faster than humans can patch them
- AI is being used to write exploit code automatically
- AI is being used to scale attacks across millions of targets
- Defenders are overwhelmed - can't keep up with AI-speed attacks
- 94% of security leaders agree this is the primary threat
- This isn't hypothetical - it's happening now

### Story 5: Quantum Encryption Crisis
**The Report:**
- 91% of businesses lack formal roadmap for quantum-safe encryption migration
- Only 47% of sensitive cloud data is encrypted today
- Report published April 10, 2026

**Talking Points:**
- Quantum computers will break current encryption (not here yet, but coming)
- "Harvest now, decrypt later" attacks - steal encrypted data now, decrypt when quantum computers arrive
- 91% of companies have NO PLAN for this transition
- Worse: Only 47% of cloud data is even encrypted with current (breakable) encryption
- That means 53% of sensitive cloud data has NO encryption at all
- Timeline: Quantum computers capable of breaking encryption estimated 5-10 years
- Migration to quantum-safe encryption takes years
- Most companies will be caught unprepared
- Government/military data especially vulnerable

### Segment Wrap
"Shadow AI leaking company secrets. WordPress plugins weaponized. Python tools exploited in 9 hours. AI-driven attacks moving in real time. And a quantum encryption crisis nobody's ready for. The security situation is spiraling out of control."

**Time: 14-16 minutes**

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## SEGMENT 4: "Arizona Tech Week Wraps Up + The Human Cost" (12-14 min)

### Opening
"Arizona Tech Week is wrapping up this weekend after an incredible inaugural run. But we need to talk about the human cost of this AI revolution that everyone's celebrating."

### Story 1: Arizona Tech Week Recap
**Event Summary:**
- Dates: April 6-12, 2026 (wrapping up this weekend)
- Arizona's first statewide decentralized tech conference
- Over 100 events across Arizona
- Estimated 25,000 participants total:
  - 5,000 investors
  - 10,000 startups
  - 10,000 influencers/attendees

**Key Events:**
- Plug and Play AccelerateAZ Innovation Expo (April 7)
- Moonshot Tech Innovation with an Altitude (April 7)
- Venture Madness (April 9)
- Venture Café Phoenix - FemTech (April 9)
- Arizona Amplified: Global Capital Spotlight (TODAY - April 11)

**Sponsors:**
- Platinum: Honeywell Aerospace, IdealabAZ
- Gold: Western Alliance Bank

**Talking Points:**
- First-ever Arizona Tech Week - historic event for the state
- 100+ events from Flagstaff to Tucson, Phoenix to Yuma
- Not just about AI - defense tech, bioscience, semiconductors, aerospace
- 25,000 people = significant gathering for Arizona tech ecosystem
- 5,000 investors with checkbooks = real capital flowing into Arizona startups
- Events still happening through Sunday (April 12)
- Timing perfect: TSMC building fabs, Intel expanding, Arizona becoming semiconductor hub
- This positions Arizona as a major tech player nationally
- Today's event (April 11): Arizona Amplified: Global Capital Spotlight - connecting Arizona startups to global investors

**Local Angle:**
- If you missed it this year, plan for 2027
- Shows Arizona tech scene has matured - we can pull off a statewide conference
- Economic impact: Investor meetings, startup funding, job creation, national attention
- This is Arizona saying "we're not just sunshine and cactus - we're a tech powerhouse"

### Story 2: Tech Layoffs - The Human Cost
**The Numbers:**
- 78,557 tech workers laid off year-to-date (2026)
- 48% of layoffs linked to AI-driven automation and cost optimization
- That's 37,707 people who lost jobs specifically because of AI

**Talking Points:**
- While we celebrate AI revolution, 78,557 people lost jobs THIS YEAR
- Nearly HALF of those layoffs (48%) are directly AI-related
- "AI-driven automation" = AI doing jobs humans used to do
- "Cost optimization" = companies replacing expensive humans with cheap AI
- These aren't hypothetical future job losses - they already happened
- Oracle laid off 20,000-30,000 (we talked about this 2 weeks ago) while investing in AI
- Pattern: Companies cut workforce to fund AI infrastructure
- Q: What do those 37,707 people do next? Many can't pivot to "AI jobs"
- Not everyone can become an AI engineer or data scientist
- Middle-skill tech jobs (support, QA, documentation, junior developers) being eliminated
- Entry-level positions drying up - how do people break into tech now?

**The Paradox:**
- Arizona Tech Week: Celebrating innovation, startup funding, growth
- Same week: Thousands of tech workers out of work
- Both are true simultaneously
- AI creates some jobs (AI engineers, prompt engineers, data labelers)
- But eliminates far more jobs (customer service, content writers, junior developers, QA testers)
- Net job loss, not job creation

**What This Means:**
- AI revolution has winners and losers
- Winners: Investors, AI companies, tech hubs like Arizona (infrastructure)
- Losers: Workers whose jobs can be automated, mid-career professionals
- Society hasn't figured out what to do with displaced workers
- Retraining programs lag years behind job losses
- Question: Is the AI revolution worth this human cost?

### Story 3: Amazon AI Revenue Hits $15 Billion
**The Numbers:**
- Amazon Web Services AI revenue run rate: $15 billion/quarter (Q1 2026)
- Amazon's chips business (Graviton, Trainium): $20 billion/year revenue run rate
- CEO Andy Jassy announced April 9, 2026

**Talking Points:**
- Amazon making $15 billion per quarter just from AI services
- That's $60 billion/year if they maintain this rate
- Custom chip business adds another $20 billion/year
- Amazon Web Services = backbone of internet, now AI backbone too
- $20 billion chip business competes with Nvidia, Intel
- Amazon building vertical integration: Own chips + own AI services + own cloud
- This is why Amazon invested in OpenAI's $122 billion raise
- Follow the money: Amazon sees AI as core business, not side project

**Connection to layoffs:**
- Amazon also laid off thousands of workers in 2025-2026
- Making $15B/quarter on AI while cutting workforce
- Pattern across Big Tech: Record AI revenue, mass layoffs

### Story 4: Anthropic Valuation Hits $350 Billion
**The News:**
- Bloomberg reported Anthropic employee tender offer at $350 billion valuation
- Reported April 9, 2026

**Talking Points:**
- Remember 2 weeks ago OpenAI hit $852 billion valuation?
- Anthropic now at $350 billion (up from previous valuations)
- Anthropic makes Claude (competitor to ChatGPT)
- For context: Anthropic founded in 2021, just 5 years old
- $350 billion for a company that doesn't manufacture anything, doesn't sell physical products
- Sells AI services and API access
- Question: How do you justify $350 billion valuation?
- Answer: Investors believe AI will reshape everything
- But: This is the same Anthropic that had source code leak (we talked about 2 weeks ago)
- And warned about AI-cyber arms race (we talked about this segment)
- Even they see the risks, but investors don't care

### Segment Wrap
"So here's where we are: Arizona just hosted 25,000 people celebrating tech innovation. Amazon's making $15 billion per quarter on AI. Anthropic is worth $350 billion. And 78,000 tech workers lost their jobs this year, half of them because of AI. The revolution is here—just make sure you're on the right side of it."

**Time: 12-14 minutes**

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## SHOW WRAP & TAKEAWAYS

### Summary
"Let's bring this all together. Yesterday, four astronauts came home from the Moon—a perfect reminder that humans can still do incredible things. But back on Earth, the AI revolution is sending bills: $7 trillion for infrastructure, nuclear power plants for electricity, and 78,000 jobs lost. Security is a nightmare with shadow AI, weaponized plugins, and attacks happening in 9-hour windows. And Arizona just wrapped its first Tech Week, celebrating an industry that's both creating opportunity and eliminating jobs simultaneously."

### Final Thought
"The common thread? Hidden price tags. AI doesn't just cost money—it costs infrastructure, power, security, and jobs. The question isn't whether AI is amazing. It is. The question is: Are we being honest about what it really costs? And are we prepared to pay that price?"

### Call to Action
- If you attended Arizona Tech Week events, share your experience
- If you work in tech, evaluate your skills - are they AI-proof?
- If you run a business, audit for shadow AI before it becomes a security breach
- Stay informed - these changes are happening fast

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## SOURCES

### Artemis II Mission
- [Artemis II Flight Day 7: Crew Makes Long-Distance Call, Begins Return - NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/07/artemis-ii-flight-day-7-crew-makes-long%E2%80%91distance-call-begins-return/)
- [Artemis II Flight Day 8: Crew Conducts Key Tests on Return to Earth - NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/08/artemis-ii-flight-day-8-crew-conducts-key-tests-on-return-to-earth/)
- [Artemis II Flight Day 9: Crew Prepares to Come Home - NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/09/artemis-ii-flight-day-9-crew-prepares-to-come-home/)
- [Artemis II Flight Day 10: Live Re-Entry Updates - NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/10/artemis-ii-flight-day-10-re-entry-live-updates/)
- [Artemis II live updates - CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/)

### Tech News April 7-10
- [Top Tech News Today, April 7, 2026 - Tech Startups](https://techstartups.com/2026/04/07/top-tech-news-today-april-7-2026/)
- [Top Tech News Today, April 9, 2026 - Tech Startups](https://techstartups.com/2026/04/09/top-tech-news-today-april-9-2026/)
- [Top Tech News Today, April 10, 2026 - Tech Startups](https://techstartups.com/2026/04/10/top-tech-news-today-april-10-2026/)

### Cybersecurity
- [10th of April 2026 Cyber Update - Cyber News Centre](https://www.cybernewscentre.com/10th-of-april-2026-cyber-update-anthropics-warning-signals-a-new-phase-in-the-ai-cyber-arms-race/)
- [AI Dominates Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026 - TechNewsWorld](https://www.technewsworld.com/story/ai-dominates-cybersecurity-predictions-for-2026-180077.html)
- [AI is supercharging the cybersecurity fight - Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/article/ai-is-supercharging-the-cybersecurity-fight-140831946.html)
- [The state of AI security in 2026 - CIO](https://www.cio.com/article/4157398/the-state-of-ai-security-in-2026.html)

### Arizona Tech Week
- [AZ Tech Week - Arizona Commerce Authority](https://www.azcommerce.com/az-tech-week/)
- [Governor Hobbs Announces Arizona Tech Week 2026 - AZBio](https://www.azbio.org/governor-hobbs-announces-arizona-tech-week-2026)
- [Arizona Tech Week 2026: A Statewide Stage for Innovation](https://thesiliconoasis.org/f/arizona-tech-week-2026-a-statewide-stage-for-innovation)
- [ACA Launches Event Calendar For Inaugural Arizona Tech Week - Phoenix Bioscience Core](https://phoenixbiosciencecore.com/news/aca-launches-event-calendar-for-inaugural-arizona-tech-week/02/2026/)

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## NOTES FOR FUTURE SHOWS

**Follow-ups:**
- Arizona Tech Week outcomes/deals announced (check next week for announcements)
- Artemis III planning updates (next mission will land on Moon)
- Shadow AI security incidents (likely to increase)
- Quantum encryption migration progress (or lack thereof)
- Tech layoff numbers month-over-month
- Nuclear power plant announcements from Big Tech
- SpaceX IPO filing (if/when it happens)

**Upcoming Events:**
- RSAC 2026 conference ongoing (cybersecurity insights)
- Artemis III planning announcements expected later in 2026

**Avoided Topics:**
- Nothing avoided - all fresh content, no overlap with April 5 show

**Timing Notes:**
- Artemis II splashdown was YESTERDAY (April 10) - perfect timing for April 11 show
- Arizona Tech Week wraps up SUNDAY (April 12) - today is Saturday, perfect for recap
- All cybersecurity stories from this week (April 7-10)
- All financial news from this week

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## INFRASTRUCTURE NOTES
- No infrastructure or credentials used this session
- Research conducted via web search only
- Session date: April 10, 2026
- Show prep for broadcast: April 11, 2026
