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VAST Partners with Deloitte to Scale AI for the Enterprise
At GTC 2025, a discussion between Deloitte and VAST showed how their partnership is scaling enterprise AI with secure, auditable infrastructure—bringing business value for next-gen, agentic AI adoption.
Verge.io Reimagines IT Infrastructure for AI Demands
Verge.io’s George Crump shares how a unified infrastructure approach is driving efficiency, performance, and AI-readiness — without the legacy bloat.
Nebius and VAST Data Combine Breakthrough Tech for AI Innovation
At GTC 2025, Nebius and VAST shared how their collaboration delivers high-performance, scalable AI infrastructure for enterprise workloads—making cloud AI more usable and accessible.
AI Benchmarks Shift as MLPerf Highlights LLM Dominance
MLPerf Inference 5.0 signals the rise of large language models, with LLAMA 2 70B surpassing ResNet-50 in submissions and driving next-gen AI performance across compute platforms.
Edge AI Silicon Heats Up as MemryX Closes $44M Series B
MemryX, a provider of edge AI acceleration hardware, recently closed its latest round of funding, serving as a potential bellwether for the next growth edge in AI compute.
Unpacking The AI Data Factory – A Storage Perspective
From VAST Data to Weka, Graid to Solidigm — storage disruptors shined bright at NVIDIA GTC 2025. Here’s how storage innovators are redefining AI infrastructure and why it matters to the future of AI.
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.
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Podcasts
Technology’s Role in the Fight Against Zootonic Pathogens with WSU’s Pilar Fernandez
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Washington State University professor Pilar Fernandez about how her team’s battle for better information about the spread against Lyme disease and other zootonic pathogens and how technology is arming the public with better data to keep individuals safe with this growing epidemic. Dr. Fernandez and fellow scientists have tapped advanced analytics and AI to track tick populations and enable proper identification of tick species as part of a larger community effort to fight this growing disease.
Getting Ahead of Generative AI with the CTO Advisor Keith Townsend
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with CTO Advisor Keith Townsend about how enterprises should ready themselves for generative AI integration into their business opportunity.
Improving Computing Accessibility with I-STEM
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Kartik Sawheny, founder of I-STEM, about his mission for delivering increased accessibility across computing and the challenges inherent in the industry today.
Achieving Sustainable Building Construction with Urban Machine
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Urban Machine CTO Andrew Gillies about how his company is achieving a breakthrough in sustainable construction through the AI and Robotics powered Machine.
Real-Time Supply Chain Control with Oii
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Oii CEO Bob Rogers about his team’s AI-based solution for real-time modeling and management of supply chains and the opportunity for AI to drive actionable solutions for business and society.
Futurecasting Technology, Society and You
TechArena host Allyson Klein talks with futurist Brian David Johnson about future and threatcasting, and how taking agency to envision our future places us in the drivers seat to shape it.
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.
