Why MotherDuck refuses to fork DuckDB
At a recent MCP developer summit, The New Stack spoke with Till Döhmen, AI lead atMotherDuck, about the company’s growing role in the evolving DuckDB ecosystem. Backed by investors includingTomasz Tun...
27 Touko 27min
JetBrains is selling independence as the rest of AI coding picks sides
JetBrains is positioning itself as the last major independent AI coding-tool vendor in a market increasingly tied to hyperscalers and foundation model labs. Speaking at Google Cloud Next, JetBrains VP...
21 Touko 26min
Why Block handed Goose to the Linux Foundation
What began as an internal developer tool atBlockhas evolved into a broader open-source initiative with industry backing. Goose, Block’s AI coding agent, followed a path similar to Amazon’s transformat...
15 Touko 19min
Fivetran's CPO: closed data stacks won't survive the agent era
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Fivetran Chief Product Officer Anjan Kundavaram argued that enterprise data systems are unprepared for the scale of AI-driven analytics. Unlike humans, AI agents can generat...
13 Touko 22min
The new FinOps problem isn't cloud bills
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Finout co-founder and CEO Roi Ravhon and Google Cloud FinOps lead Pathik Sharma discussed how FinOps is rapidly evolving for the AI era. Ravhon argued that while cloud FinOp...
12 Touko 28min
How Microsoft is governing thousands of Kubernetes clusters without manual intervention
Managing Kubernetes at fleet scale introduces significant complexity, especially as organizations expand from a few clusters to hundreds or thousands across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. ...
7 Touko 25min
Why long-running AI agents break on HTTP and how Ably is fixing it
In this episode ofThe New Stack Makers, Matthew O’Riordan, CEO of Ably, explains how infrastructure originally built for human collaboration is now well-suited for long-running AI agents. While Ably i...
6 Touko 31min
Why the Linux Foundation adopted MCP, with Jim Zemlin and Mazin Gilbert
Agentic AI is advancing rapidly, with open-source projects racing to keep pace with real-world deployment. To accelerate progress, the Linux Foundation consolidated key technologies—Model Context Prot...
6 Touko 32min
