AI
Highlights
Ai4 2025: Agents, RAG, and the Enterprise AI Reality Check
From arena keynotes on education and RAG to 50 tracks and 250+ exhibitors, Ai4 2025 leans into agentic systems, governance, and real-world deployments for buyers who need proof, not promises.
Verizon Business’ Nikhil Tyagi on Edge AI Innovation
Nikhil Tyagi of Verizon Business discusses scaling AI at the edge, from small language models and multimodal experiences to infrastructure challenges and adaptive inference.
Storage Is the Catalyst Revolutionizing Enterprise AI
Learn how Solidigm SSDs are delivering 10x-20x performance gains and 40% cost savings for enterprise AI during Supermicro’s Open Storage Summit this August.
GPT-5 Lands With Market-Leading Performance, a Nod to Openness
OpenAI’s GPT-5 outperforms rivals in coding, context retention, and accuracy—setting a new bar for enterprise AI while signaling a subtle shift toward openness.
Mid-Year Report: AI’s Biggest 2025 Surprises Revealed
Market share shakeups, pricing shocks, and a tectonic shift in the open internet: Intel’s Lynn Comp unpacks developments in AI trends in 2025 that no one could have predicted.
MLPerf Storage v2.0 Eclipses Records in AI Benchmarking
Global surge in submissions reveals the pivotal role of storage in scaling AI training, with new checkpoint tests tackling failure resilience in massive accelerator clusters.
Stanford’s Daniel Wu on the Future of AI Infrastructure
Stanford’s Daniel Wu unpacks AI democratization — exploring agentic & embodied AI, multi-modal models, and trustworthy systems. Learn more at Daniel’s AI Infra Summit 2025 live presentation.
CoreWeave Goes Vertical With $9B Core Scientific Deal
CoreWeave acquires Core Scientific in a $9B all-stock deal, unlocking 1.3 GW of power and advancing its vision of vertically integrated AI infrastructure for next-gen hyperscale workloads.
Clio Acquires vLex for $1B in Legal Tech’s AI Data Arms Race
A bold $1B move unites Clio and vLex to build the first AI-native platform connecting legal practice with firm management — signaling a new era of AI-driven legal transformation.
Google’s AlphaGenome Shines a Light on DNA ‘Dark Matter’
Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome uses AI to decode the mysteries of non-coding DNA — a leap that could transform how we understand disease, evolution, and what it means to be human.
Intel's AI Marketing Move: Sign of the Times or CEO Sideshow?
Intel's decision to outsource marketing to Accenture and generative AI sparks debate: is this a visionary leap into the future of work or a symptom of a deeper retreat from innovation leadership?
Who’s Who in the AI Zoo?
Feeling overwhelmed by AI? You’re not alone. This new series cuts through the hype to explore practical tools, evolving trends, and smart strategies to help you navigate the AI ecosystem.
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Podcasts
Ushering in a New Era of AI Silicon with Tenstorrent’s David Bennett
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Tenstorrent’s David Bennett about the company’s vision for RISC-V + accelerator solutions to usher in a new era of AI compute and how customers are hungry for alternatives including custom designs.
A Mathematical Revolution in AI with Lemurian Labs CEO Jay Dawani
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Lemurian Labs co-founder and CEO Jay Dawani about his vision for a mathematical revolution in AI and how his company plans to change the game on AI performance.
Unleashing Generative AI for the World with Microsoft’s Nidhi Chappell
Allyson Klein chat’s with Microsoft GM Nidhi Chappell about her team’s amazing journey delivering the compute power to train Chat GPT and integrate generative AI power for the world.
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.
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.
Carrier’s Arun Nandi on Early AI Adoption and the Infra Edge
Recorded at AI Infra Summit 2025 in Santa Clara: Carrier CDAO Arun Nandi on infra as AI’s backbone, how early adopters win on ROI and speed, and what changed in the last 12–24 months.
Inside Data-Centric Strategy with Equinix and Solidigm
Equinix’s Glenn Dekhayser and Solidigm’s Scott Shadley join TechArena to unpack hybrid multicloud, AI-driven workloads, and what defines a resilient, data-centric data center strategy.
Powering AI: Solidigm’s Vision for the Future of Storage
Industry leader Scott Shadley reveals how Solidigm’s innovations in SSDs, partnerships, and architecture are reshaping data centers to meet the rising demands of AI, edge, and enterprise workloads.
