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AI’s New Canvas: The Visual Creators in the Zoo
From Midjourney to Firefly, Part 2 of our ‘AI Zoo’ series breaks down how today’s top image models work—and how TechArena uses them to create powerful, responsible visuals.
The Lamb Lays Down with the Lion to Avoid Being Eaten by the Wolf
As Chinese EV giants like BYD rise, German automakers are forging an unlikely alliance, but history shows such partnerships often crumble within months.
AI Chip Design Hits Crossroads in Agentic Era
As AI reshapes compute, memory, and networking, chipmakers are racing to rethink design workflows, embrace agentic AI, and overcome the next wave of data, power, and talent constraints.
Mid-Year Report: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity
From Chinese hackers hiding in US power grids for 300 days to AI agents that fight back autonomously, security expert Sean Grimaldi reveals which 2025 predictions hit, and what’s coming next.
Mid-Year Report: AI Demonstrates Double-Edged Impacts in 2025
Gina Rosenthal discusses how AI is transforming everything from cybercrime and fraud detection to government operations this year, revealing both breakthrough innovations and costly failures.
Synopsys Finalizes $35B Ansys Deal for Design Dominance
The merger creates a “silicon to systems” engineering powerhouse, unifying chip design and simulation to tackle AI complexity and reshape the future of smart product development.
Cornelis CN5000 Launches: Rewiring AI and HPC Networking at Scale
Cornelis debuts CN5000, a 400G scale-out network built to shatter AI and HPC bottlenecks with lossless architecture, linear scalability, and vendor-neutral interoperability.
VDURA Debuts V-ScaleFlow Tech, Cuts AI Storage Costs 60%
Updated data platform combines hyperscale capacity with reduced flash requirements while adding native Kubernetes support and end-to-end encryption for enterprise customers.
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.
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Podcasts
MLCommons’ David Kanter on Benchmarking AI, Accelerating Innovation
David Kanter discusses MLCommons' role in setting benchmarks for AI performance, fostering industry-wide collaboration, and driving advancements in machine learning capabilities.
OCP Insights with Scott Shadley: AI, Collaboration & Storage
Join Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski in this episode of Data Insights as they discuss key takeaways from the 2024 OCP Summit with Scott Shadley, focusing on AI advancements and storage innovations.
Inside AMD’s Vision for AI and Data Center Evolution
In this episode of Data Insights by Solidigm, Ravi Kuppuswamy of AMD unpacks the company’s innovations in data center computing and how they adapt to AI demands while supporting traditional workloads.
Exploring AI Innovations: Chen Lee of Gigabyte at OCP Summit
Join host Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski in this episode of Data Insights as they chat with Gigabyte's Chen Lee about AI innovations and the future of server technology at OCP Summit.
Google Cloud’s Amber Huffman on AI, OCP & Future Innovations
Live from OCP Summit, Google Cloud’s Amber Huffman shares insights on AI's future, open standards, and innovation, discussing her journey, data center advancements, and the role of collaboration at OCP.
Ocient: Revolutionizing Data Warehousing for AI Workloads
Live from OCP Summit 2024, this Data Insights podcast explores how Ocient’s innovative platform is optimizing compute-intensive data workloads, delivering efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability.
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.
AI, Flash, and Data Protection: Scality’s Vision with Paul Speciale
Scality CMO Paul Speciale joins Data Insights to discuss the future of storage—AI-driven resilience, the rise of all-flash deployments, and why object storage is becoming central to enterprise strategy.
