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VMware Cloud Foundation, VCF AI Services, VMware Private AI Cloud, VMware AI Factory, Tanzu, vDefend…what's the difference? Where's Nvidia in all this? What's Broadcom's stance on open source and open-weight models, especially with Nvidia reportedly buying Hugging Face? Beth Pariseau caught up with a Broadcom exec to sort out these questions as VMware Explore kicked off this week in Las Vegas.

Featuring: Paul Turner, chief product officer, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom

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NVIDIA has been in a few major headlines in the last week. In this episode, we explore the company's latest financial results and strategic moves that have made the news, as well as the implications of the global memory shortage on enterprise IT.

Featuring: Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer, TechTarget

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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source AI Platform Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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