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Google's AI Ultra Plan Promises Creative Superpowers – For a Price
Google launches AI Ultra, a $249.99/month plan bundling its top AI tools – but the high price and full-stack consolidation raise questions about accessibility and hyperscaler ecosystem lock-in.
Start-Ups Stake Their Claim in Humanoid Robot Rush
As tech giants and nations race for dominance, agile innovators focus on human needs to redefine the future of human-robot relationships.
Understanding Agentic AI and Multi-Agent Systems
From self-organizing drones to software managing supply chains, agentic AI is creating systems that are reshaping industries. We break down the latest developments and what you can do to prepare.
Scaling Data Center Infrastructure for AI
Industry experts from Avayla, Perpetual Intelligence and the Liquid Cooling Coalition discuss liquid cooling, thermal design, and policy blind spots as rack power for AI workloads surges past 600kW.
VAST Data Launches AI Operating System
VAST Data unveils a unified AI Operating System built to run agentic workloads at scale – combining data, compute, and orchestration into a single platform for the era of the thinking machine.
Trump’s Gamble on Global Tech Leadership
Trump’s deal to supply AI chips to the UAE and Saudi Arabia signals a strategic U.S. shift — boosting allies' AI ambitions while raising questions about export policy, energy, and control of truth.
Europe Enters the AI Race with €200 Billion InvestAI Initiative
The EU’s massive investment in AI gigafactories positions Europe as a global AI contender, amid rising competition from China's DeepSeek and the U.S.'s Stargate projects.
DeepSeek’s AI Breakthrough: Cheaper, Faster, but at What Cost?
DeepSeek claims its open-source AI model rivals top LLMs at a fraction of the cost—but is the hype justified? Here’s what you need to know about its tech, impact, and potential risks.
5 Top Takeaways from Day 2 of the Oregon AI Conference
During day two of the Oregon AI conference, attendees focused on the ethical implications of AI and how small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can integrate AI into their operations.
3 Day-One Trends from the Oregon AI Conference
The first day of the inaugural Oregon AI Conference showcased how quickly AI can unite small-to-medium-sized businesses, spotlighted DeepSeek’s evolution, and championed responsible innovation.
The Great Debate: Navigating AI Ethics
Our own Allyson Klein moderates a powerhouse panel on AI ethics, with panelists representing Loyola University Chicago, Google, MLCommons, VAST Data and Momethesis.
Synopsys’ Multi-Die Technology Enhances Chiplet Capabilities
In this video from Chiplet Summit, Shekhar Kapoor discusses how Synopsys’ transition to a multi-die approach to chiplet development has allowed them to innovate beyond the limitations of traditional monolithic chips.
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Podcasts
MLCommons: Setting the Standard for AI Performance
From storage to automotive, MLPerf is evolving with industry needs. Hear David Kanter explain how community-driven benchmarking is enabling reliable and scalable AI deployment.
Solidigm on Building Future-Ready AI Storage
Solidigm’s Ace Stryker joins Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski on Data Insights to explore how partnerships and innovation are reshaping storage for the AI era.
Iceotope’s Sustainable Cooling Vision for the AI Era
With sustainability at the core, Iceotope is pioneering liquid cooling solutions that reduce environmental impact while meeting the demands of AI workloads at scale.
AI Infra 2025: David Glick on Building Walmart’s Future with AI
In this episode of In the Arena, David Glick, SVP at Walmart, shares how one of the world’s largest enterprises is fostering rapid AI innovation and empowering engineers to transform retail.
Rafay’s Haseeb Budhani on Building the Future of AI Infrastructure
Haseeb Budhani, Co-Founder of Rafay, shares how his team is helping enterprises scale AI infrastructure across the globe, and why he believes we’re still in the early innings of adoption.
From AI Infra: AI Strategy, Security, & Human Impact with Daniel Wu
Direct from AI Infra 2025, AI Expert & Author Daniel Wu shares how organizations build trustworthy systems—bridging academia and industry with governance and security for lasting impact.
Cornelis and OCP Examine Why AI Infrastructure Must Evolve
From the OCP Global Summit, hear why 50% GPU utilization is a “civilization-level” problem, and why open standards are key to unlocking underutilized compute capacity.
How Axelera Scales Inference From Edge to Data Center
In the Arena: Allyson Klein with Axelera CMO Alexis Crowell on inference-first AI silicon, a customer-driven SDK, and what recent tapeouts reveal about the roadmap.
Data Insights: AI in Healthcare with Dr. Rohith Vangalla
In this episode of Data Insights, host Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Dr. Rohith Vangalla of Optum to discuss the future of AI in healthcare.
Metrum AI’s Steen Graham on Multi-Agent AI and Smarter Storage
From OCP Summit, Metrum AI CEO Steen Graham unpacks multi-agent infrastructure, SSD-accelerated RAG, and the memory-to-storage shift—plus a 2026 roadmap to boost GPU utilization, uptime, and time-to-value.
AI in Finance: Governance, Compliance, and Innovation
Anusha Nerella joins hosts Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski to explore responsible AI in financial services, emphasizing compliance, collaboration, and ROI-driven adoption strategies.
Cerebras Scales Real-Time AI with Wafer-Scale Innovation
At AI Infra Summit, CTO Sean Lie shares how Cerebras is delivering instant inference, scaling cloud and on-prem systems, and pushing reasoning models into the open-source community.
