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MLCommons Raises the Bar for AI PCs with MLPerf Client v1.0
MLCommons launches industry-standard benchmarks for LLM performance on PCs, cutting through marketing hype and giving developers and enterprises the transparent metrics they need.
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.
Ampere Receives A $6.5 Billion Exit
Ampere joins SoftBank in a $6.5B deal, fueling speculation about AI’s next wave. Is this a talent acquisition, a play for Arm’s AI future, or a move to challenge NVIDIA’s dominance?
AI, Edge, and Power: Key Takeaways from MWC Panel Discussion
At MWC 2025, our own Allyson Klein had the honor of chatting with industry leaders from Ansys, Ampere, and Rebellions to explore AI’s enterprise adoption, hardware innovation, and power efficiency.
The Next Frontier of AI: Key Insights from AMD’s Salil Raje
At MWC, AMD SVP and GM Salil Raje shared how AI at the edge is revolutionizing industries, from healthcare to automotive, with real-time processing, federated learning, and adaptive silicon innovations.
Synopsys Accelerates Chip Design with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell, AI
At GTC, Synopsys announced a new suite of electronic design automation tools that harness NVIDIA’s Grace Blackwell architecture to accelerate the next generation of silicon development.
VAST & NVIDIA on the Insight Engine-DGX Collaboration
At GTC 2025, VAST’s John Mao and NVIDIA’s Tony Paikeday discuss their recent announcement and how AI infrastructure is evolving to meet enterprise demand, from fine-tuning to large-scale inferencing.
How PEAK:AIO is Powering the Future of AI and GPU Compute
As AI’s demand for faster data processing grows, PEAK:AIO delivers high-performance storage that eliminates bottlenecks—transforming industries from healthcare to conservation.
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Podcasts
Cornelis Networks & AMD on Scaling AI Without the Chaos
From CPU orchestration to scaling efficiency in networks, leaders reveal how to assess your use case, leverage existing infrastructure, and productize AI instead of just experimenting.
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.
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.
Valvoline Brings Liquid Cooling Power to AI Data Centers
From racing oils to data center immersion cooling, Valvoline is reimagining thermal management for AI-scale workloads. Learn how they’re driving density, efficiency, and sustainability forward.
Reinventing RAID for AI: Xinnor and Solidigm on Storage’s Future
This Data Insights episode unpacks how Xinnor’s software-defined RAID for NVMe and Solidigm’s QLC SSDs tackle AI infrastructure challenges—reducing rebuild times, improving reliability, and maximizing GPU efficiency.
WEKA on AI Data Centers: A New Infrastructure Playbook
In this episode, Allyson Klein, Scott Shadley, and Jeneice Wnorowski (Solidigm) talk with Val Bercovici (WEKA) about aligning hardware and software, scaling AI productivity, and building next-gen data centers.
Hybrid AI at Scale: Celestica’s Playbook
From AI Infra Summit, Celestica’s Matt Roman unpacks the shift to hybrid and on-prem AI, why sovereignty/security matter, and how silicon, power, cooling, and racks come together to deliver scalable AI infrastructure.
