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

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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

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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

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Enterprises are grappling with growing AI infrastructure demands, including substantial growth in network traffic generated by AI agents, increasingly complex network architectures and new frontiers in system design for reliability and resilience. Cisco's data center and internet infrastructure leader takes a deep dive into how large companies – including Cisco itself – are addressing these issues, and preparing for the next 6 months of rapid AI development.

Featuring: Kevin Wollenweber, senior vice president and general manager of data center and internet infrastructure, Cisco.

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At Cisco Live North America 2026, updates were unveiled that aim to reshape how enterprises approach network management and security, including Cisco Cloud Control. Stay tuned for more insights as veteran reporter Beth Pariseau digs deeper at Cisco Live.

A computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon who is also the CEO, co-founder, and chairman of the board at a tech company has a uniquely multidimensional view of how recent developments relate to historical system design principles. He shares that perspective in this interview, from how Nvidia's NemoClaw aligns with the hourglass concept of system security to how its focus on the file system mirrors a longstanding debate in computer science.

Featuring: Hui Zhang, co-founder, CTO and Chairman of the Board, Conviva

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How can enterprise IT buyers choose among the plethora of AI automation tools now on the market from major vendors? Can they trust AI agent-driven infrastructure automation yet? Should they? Steven Dickens, CEO and principal analyst at HyperFrame Research, offers his answers to these questions and more from the show floor at Dell Technologies World.

Featuring: Steven Dickens, CEO and principal analyst, HyperFrame Research

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During Dell Technologies World this week, Dell touted that its AI Factory with Nvidia has shipped to 5,000 companies in a little over two years. TechTarget senior news writer Beth Pariseau catches up with Dell SVP Varun Chhabra to break down who those customers are, how they're counted, how their AI workloads have evolved, and how Dell expects the AI Factory market to look in the future.

Featuring: Varun Chhabra, senior vice president of product marketing, Dell Technologies

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Can enterprises replace costly cloud-hosted models with self-managed, open-weight AI models to reduce AI inference costs? What are the consequences if they don't? A distinguished engineer working on emerging technologies in Red Hat's office of the CTO discusses his team's quest to answer these questions and his outlook on the future of enterprise AI.

Featuring: Stephen Watt, Distinguished Engineer and Vice President, Office of the CTO, Red Hat

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TechTarget senior news writer Beth Pariseau breaks down the major themes at Red Hat Summit in Atlanta, including private AI, sovereign AI, infrastructure automation, and agentic automation.