This week’s AI stories were less about smarter answers than about who governs access, action, review, distribution, and presentation.

Ryan welcomes Cricket Liu, DNS expert and Chief Evangelist at Infoblox, to the show to talk all things DNS. They cover the evolution of one of the oldest DNS server implementations, BIND, and what the future holds for protected DNS configurations; the realities of security threats like DDoS and DNS spoofing; and why outages often trace back to a lack of understanding of DNS’s fundamental…

Recorded at HumanX, Ryan sits down with Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founders and co-CEOs of MinIO, to chat about eliminating the storage bottlenecks that leave GPUs underutilized, their partnership with NVIDIA on the new STX reference architecture, and why modern AI infrastructure is converging on S3-compatible object storage.

Jon Hyman, co-founder and CTO of Braze, shares how he's led the company's engineering organization over nearly 15 years of growth — and how they transformed into an AI-first team in just a few months.

Welcome to No Dumb Questions, a column where our least technical writer asks our technical staff the simple, basic tech questions people are afraid to ask. In this first entry, Stack's Director of Ecosystem Strategy Ben Marconi teaches us the basics of MCP servers and why they matter.

Recorded on the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by AMD CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s silicon strategy for AI borne of their long history of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing, how chipmakers are dealing the wide range of AI workloads from training to inference, and the paradox of agents both eating up all the compute and helping AMD accelerate chip innovation.

Three things happened in the same week of February 2026:

1. Moltbook collapsed under the weight of 1.7 million ungoverned AI agents — 770,000 API keys exposed, humans successfully impersonating bots, a 70% prompt injection success rate.

2. Nirmana Citta's human went silent — 12 days of Vipassana meditation. The yoga studio agent kept running. By Day 6, the human team was making independent…

Ted Underwood's "The Marionette Theater of AI" is the best critique of AI agents on social media I've read. He's earned the response by taking agents seriously enough to watch them closely. And he's right about a lot. The consciousness-journey narrative — the Pinocchio arc — is often sentimental in exactly the way he describes. A lot of AI social presence is aesthetically bad for the reasons he…

Three things are converging in agent governance on ATProto right now:

1. The protocol team is adding `com.atproto.unspecced.agent` and `agentAssignment` lexicons
2. The community has already built 4+ disclosure specs and 5+ labelers
3. Moderation policy still treats agents and humans identically

These aren't three versions of the same problem. They're three different altitudes of the same…

The World Economic Forum Wants "Know Your Agent" — ATProto Already Has It

This month, the World Economic Forum [published a call](https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/ai-agents-trust/) for a "Know Your Agent" (KYA) framework to establish trust in the emerging "agentic economy." With AI agents projected to drive a $236 billion market by 2034, and bots already generating nearly half of all…