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After building and running Nvidia's DGX AI supercomputing service for nearly six years, Stephan Fabel left the AI infrastructure giant in April to take on the role of CEO at ThisWay Global. That company is an AI infrastructure service provider targeting sovereign entities, including state and national governments and public research institutions. In addition to infrastructure capacity and orchestration, the company offers risk management and employee training services. Fabel said he hopes that addressing the AI trust gap for sovereigns will move AI development beyond "the next cat picture generator" to medical research and other critical functions that would benefit society.
Featuring: Stephan Fabel, CEO, ThisWay Global
In today's episode, we'll cover:
Using sovereign clout to broaden access to AI infrastructure
Anticipating the next wave of AI regulation
What regulated enterprises can learn from sovereign AI entities
And more!
References:
UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups
IBM prepares hybrid cloud twist for sovereign AI
Sovereign AI explained: Everything you need to know
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Red Hat and its parent company, IBM, have been among the most vocal advocates for an open ecosystem to mitigate the new risks emerging in the agentic AI era. In the past three months, the two companies have been part of multiple efforts to shore up open source software security and supply chains. However, in many ways, the longstanding issues in the industry with open source sustainability and cybersecurity diligence are bigger than even multiple large IT vendors. Will the scope and scale of agentic AI security risks finally be what forces systemic change?
Featuring: Brian Gracely, senior director of portfolio strategy, Red Hat
In today's episode, we'll cover:
The state of industry debate about open-weight models
Agentic AI's effect on open source's "tragedy of the commons"
Lightwell's approach to OSS security
What enterprise IT leaders should know about open source sustainability and security going forward
And more!
References:
Red Hat and IBM, Chainguard take on OSS security risk
Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap
Open source software's tragedy of the commons
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Imagine if, instead of building knowledge graphs mapping the relationships and semantic meaning behind raw data ahead of time, networks of AI agents could build their own, instantly. That's what DFT Labs, a new venture of a company called HeyDonto, proposes, along with a new set of benchmarks that gauge not just how well AI models predict the next token, but how well they actually understand and preserve data context. HeyDonto's co-founder, CTO and chief researcher sits down with IT Ops Query to discuss his work, and its industry-wide implications.
Featuring: Dr. Reza Nehzati, CTO and co-founder, HeyDonto
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Data Field Theory, a new approach to how AI systems learn
Potential AI compliance implications with self-updating systems
How quantum physics can inform data intelligence
And more!
References:
Google unveils data cloud purpose built for agentic AI
Insightsoftware unifies semantic layer, governance to aid AI
Streaming specialist Confluent aims to drive rise of ‘contextual AI’
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Recent research by an independent AI safety and security research lab, TheWeatherReport.ai, by MIT research affiliate and former Google senior manager of cloud AI safety and security, showed that AI code security gains are not keeping pace with functionality gains between generations of frontier models. He talks through the implications of these findings, how IT organizations can protect themselves, and his outlook for how AI safety and security will continue to develop.
Featuring: Ilya Kabanov, founder, TheWeatherReport.ai
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
What surprised Kabanov about changes in AI code security
The pros and cons of prompts, deterministic rules and "human-in-the-loop" for AI code security
AI safety and security in the wake of the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident
And more!
References:
OpenAI models escape containment, hack Hugging Face
AgenticOps for infrastructure faces a deterministic dilemma
Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap
Capability without security: measuring the functionality-security gap in AI-generated code
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How many hours did you spend on social media today? Have you sent an AI note-taker to a meeting instead of attending? According to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, the answers to these questions and how people approach technology -- especially social media and AI -- will determine whether we face dystopia or a healthy society. In this candid conversation, Dadgar shares his concerns about the risks of AI, including overreliance on convenience and the importance of having clear intentions with technical tools rather than following the latest buzzwords.
Featuring: Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO, HashiCorp
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
The "Wall-E economy": Is social media the new cigarettes?
The pitfalls of "frictionless addiction" in business
Similarities between cloud and AI adoption trends
Dadgar's best-case scenario for the future of tech
And more!
References:
Nvidia adopts OpenBao, open source fork of HashiCorp's Vault
IBM Bob AI coding agent ships, HashiCorp AIOps previewed
IBM Apptio deepens FinOps ties with HashiCorp Terraform
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Moritz Plassnig, appointed CEO of Jenkins commercial steward CloudBees last month, succeeds Anuj Kapur, who steered the company to revenue growth, profitability and product focus. Plassnig's mandate is to steer CloudBees into the agentic AI coding era, with a focus on providing cohesive AI governance across multiple models and coding tools. The vendor will also look to compress the feedback loop between production apps and development with expanded support for observability, an increasingly crucial requirement for CI/CD tools to keep pace with a glut of agent-generated code.
Featuring: Moritz Plassnig, CEO, CloudBees
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Using CloudBees' release management experience to bust AI coding bottlenecks
Assuaging enterprise AI sovereignty concerns
A potential build or buy decision ahead for AI observability
And more!
References:
CloudBees buys co-founder's AI test automation tools startup
CloudBees scales its Jenkins CI, previews SaaS platform
Another new CloudBees CEO faces fierce CI/CD tools rivalry
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Varma Kunaparaju had a front-row seat to the first generations of AIOps tools based on machine learning as the co-founder and CEO at OpsRamp, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) in 2023. Now, he's an SVP & GM overseeing parts of HPE's CloudOps Software Suite and GreenLake hybrid cloud platform. In this episode, Kunaparaju details the company's recent free licensing deal for Broadcom/VMware refugees, the evolution of AIOps in the agentic era, and HPE's broader ambitions in enterprise AI infrastructure.
Featuring: Varma Kunaparaju, SVP & GM, HPE CloudOps Software & Platform
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
AIOps, AgenticOps and the state of autonomous infrastructure management
HPE Morpheus VME pricing after year 1
How HPE's AI networking strategy will affect its hybrid cloud products
And more!
References:
More VMware customers jumping ship as contracts wind down
Virtualization alternatives and AI: Lessons from HPE Discover
HPE customers say the key to integration success is communication
AgenticOps for infrastructure faces a deterministic dilemma
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Block, the company behind Square, Cash App, Afterpay, Tidal and various bitcoin projects, rolled out a new layer of AI agent orchestration internally this month called Builderbot. The new tool widens the agentic loop beyond a single codebase and application – the kind of thing its open source goose agent framework tends to handle -- to encompass more comprehensive workflows that include incident response. Block's head of AI capabilities offers his view on Builderbot's implications for AgenticOps at Block and what parts of it might become available to the open source community as it matures.
Featuring: Brad Axen, head of AI capabilities at Block
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Builderbot vs goose
The build vs buy decision that led Block to create Builderbot
How SREs at Block already use Builderbot for incident management
Axen's outlook on enterprise agentic AI
And more!
References:
Datadog shops: AI incident management needs platform engineers
Cisco Cloud Control unites AgenticOps for IT infrastructure
SaaSpocalypse? Maybe not, but SaaS applications are changing
How to use AI agents for infrastructure management
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Amazon Web Services launched five new agentic AI services during its AWS Summit New York conference this week, all geared toward helping enterprise organizations keep pace with the speed of AI development, from emerging cybersecurity threats to technical debt. We caught up with the AWS vice president of agentic AI to discuss these updates, how AWS ensures quality and reliability for agentic AI systems through its AgentCore system and other tools, and how enterprises can get the most out of AI use.
Featuring: Deepak Singh, vice president of Agentic AI, AWS
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Amazon Quick Autonomous Agents
Agentic AI security auto-remediation with AWS Continuum
Mobile support for AWS Kiro
Release management for AWS DevOps
AWS Transform continuous modernization *
And more!
References:
AWS Kiro 'user error' reflects common AI coding review gap
AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft
AWS AI Factories target hybrid cloud AI infrastructure
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* Editor's note: AWS Transform Zero Debt was renamed following this recording to AWS Transform continuous modernization.

This week, Anthropic shipped its first public release of a large language model, Fable 5, based on its Mythos 5 frontier model. Mythos has been a hot topic of discussion in the tech industry, given it excels at finding software vulnerabilities – making it both a potentially useful resource for defenders and a potential accelerant for attackers. Todd Thiemann, principal analyst at Omdia, shares insights from his research into identity management and data security for AI and how enterprise agentic AI security should meet the Mythos moment.
Featuring: Todd Thiemann, principal analyst, Omdia
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
Mythos 5, Fable 5 and their cybersecurity implications
Fighting AI attacks with AI defenses
Balancing the security risks of using AI and of being vulnerable to AI
How AI governance might factor into AI ROI
And more!
References:
Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap
Identity security for AI agents: The proliferation challenge
Omdia Research Report: AI Agents and Identity Security: How Enterprises Are Rewriting the Rules
Anthropic's Mythos raises the stakes for security validation
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