The New Stack Podcast

As AI evolves from conversational chatbots to autonomous agents, CPUs are becoming an increasingly important part of the infrastructure equation. In this episode, The New Stack speaks with Bhumik Patel of Arm and Mo Farhat of Google about how CPUs act as an “air traffic controller” for agentic workloads, handling orchestration, data preparation, semantic search, vector databa...

Doist CTO Gonçalo Silva says AI is reshaping software development, but success depends on restraint rather than rapid feature expansion. Instead of chasing every AI capability, Doist prioritizes “subtraction over addition,” removing features that fail to deliver lasting value despite development investment. After experimenting with nearly 20 AI concepts, the company found suc...

As AI coding agents accelerate software development, they also create new challenges for site reliability engineers (SREs), who are increasingly responsible for debugging systems that no single human fully understands. In this episode ofThe New Stackpodcast, Sam Farid and Nate Heinrich of Chronosphere argue that AI agents should also be used for root-cause analysis, he...

In this episode with The New Stack Agents, Frederic Lardinois, NVIDIA’s Joey Conway says advances in AI over the past year have dramatically improved the capabilities of local models, making them practical for enterprise and personal use alongside frontier cloud models. Rather than replacing large models, Conway envisions a “system of models” where specialized local models ha...

In this episode, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure revealed Brain, the AI-powered AIOps system that continuously monitors Azure’s health, detects incidents, identifies root causes, and increasingly automates responses such as pausing problematic deployments and notifying affected customers. Built on Azure Resource Graph, Brain creates a real-time digital twin of Azure,...