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The AI Divide in 2026: Economic Wildfire and an Information Elite
As up to 10 million jobs disappear and quality content moves behind paywalls, the question isn’t if AI will reshape society. It’s whether 2026 is the year we’ll control the burn or watch it spread.
Castrol Offers a Fluid Fix for AI’s Overheating Data Centers
New liquid cooling solutions have created a critical new system for data centers, and the company's “magic dust” additive packages are proving essential to keep AI running.
From Intel To Machani Robotics: Niv Sundaram On Human-First AI
Intel veteran and Machani Robotics CSO/CTO Niv Sundaram, one of TechArena’s newest voices of innovation, talks emotionally intelligent AI, companion humanoids, and why real innovation starts and ends with human wellbeing.
From Operators to Innovators: Inside Midas Immersion Cooling
With AI racks exceeding 100kW, immersion cooling isn’t optional anymore. Midas’s operator-driven design delivers hot-swappable maintenance and thermal recovery economics.
AI, the Silent Partner Mitigating Clinician Burnout
Healthcare teams are drowning in admin work and decision fatigue. This piece explores how AI can quietly automate workflows, ease cognitive load, and give clinicians time back for patient care.
Valvoline Global Operations Engineers Data Center Liquid Cooling
As hyperscalers grapple with unprecedented chip density, the 159-year-old company known for high performance lubricants is engineering fluids that enable immersion cooling at scale.
The AI Divide in 2026: Economic Wildfire and an Information Elite
As up to 10 million jobs disappear and quality content moves behind paywalls, the question isn’t if AI will reshape society. It’s whether 2026 is the year we’ll control the burn or watch it spread.
Castrol Offers a Fluid Fix for AI’s Overheating Data Centers
New liquid cooling solutions have created a critical new system for data centers, and the company's “magic dust” additive packages are proving essential to keep AI running.
From Intel To Machani Robotics: Niv Sundaram On Human-First AI
Intel veteran and Machani Robotics CSO/CTO Niv Sundaram, one of TechArena’s newest voices of innovation, talks emotionally intelligent AI, companion humanoids, and why real innovation starts and ends with human wellbeing.
From Operators to Innovators: Inside Midas Immersion Cooling
With AI racks exceeding 100kW, immersion cooling isn’t optional anymore. Midas’s operator-driven design delivers hot-swappable maintenance and thermal recovery economics.
AI, the Silent Partner Mitigating Clinician Burnout
Healthcare teams are drowning in admin work and decision fatigue. This piece explores how AI can quietly automate workflows, ease cognitive load, and give clinicians time back for patient care.
Valvoline Global Operations Engineers Data Center Liquid Cooling
As hyperscalers grapple with unprecedented chip density, the 159-year-old company known for high performance lubricants is engineering fluids that enable immersion cooling at scale.
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Podcasts
Inside Runpod’s GPU Cloud for Long-Running AI Agents
Runpod head of engineering Brennen Smith joins a Data Insights episode to unpack GPU-dense clouds, hidden storage bottlenecks, and a “universal orchestrator” for long-running AI agents at scale.
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.
Transforming FinTech with Agentic AI
Anusha Nerella, financial industry leader and Forbes Tech Council member leader, explores AI-driven FinTech infrastructure—scalability, governance and agentic computing. Interested in finding out more about the AI Infra Summit and seeing Anusha Nerella live? Find out more here.
Scaling AI and Biotech for Global Health Impact
In this episode of In the Arena, hear how cross-border collaboration, sustainability, and tech are shaping the future of patient care and innovation.
How Verge.io is Rethinking Compute, Storage & AI Readiness
Tune in to our latest episode of In the Arena to discover how Verge.io’s unified infrastructure platform simplifies IT management, boosts efficiency, & prepares data centers for the AI-driven future.
How AI-Optimized Storage is Eliminating Data Bottlenecks
Join us on Data Insights as Mark Klarzynski from PEAK:AIO explores how high-performance AI storage is driving innovation in conservation, healthcare, and edge computing for a sustainable future.
Unpacking AI Inference at the Edge with Untether AI
Untether AI's Bob Beachler explores the future of AI inference, from energy-efficient silicon to edge computing challenges, MLPerf benchmarks, and the evolving enterprise AI landscape.
AI-Era Computing Drives Innovation in Memory Interconnects
Explore how OCP’s Composable Memory Systems group tackles AI-driven challenges in memory bandwidth, latency, and scalability to optimize performance across modern data centers.
