AI
Highlights
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.
Arm’s AI Infrastructure Advantage: Efficiency Meets Innovation
AWS now ships 50% Arm-based compute, and other major cloud providers are following, as efficiency in the gigawatt era and software optimization drive a shift in data center architecture.
Cerebras Soars with $1.1 B of Pre-IPO Investment
Backed by top U.S. investors, Cerebras gains $1.1B pre-IPO funding, boosting its AI vision, market traction, and challenge to NVIDIA with silicon-to-services expansion.
AI-Generated Code: Unlocking Speed – with Guardrails
TechArena Voice of Innovation Tannu Jiwnani explains how to blend GenAI-assisted coding with continuous threat modeling, automated validation, and expert review to accelerate work without compromise.
AI Infra Summit 2025: Agents, Utilization, and Innovation
From cloud to edge, agentic workflows are moving from pilots to production—reshaping compute, storage, and networks while spotlighting CPU control planes, GPU utilization, and congestion-free fabrics.
Dell Highlights Four Shifts Powering the AI Storage Revolution
Dell outlines how flash-first design, unified namespaces, and validated architectures are reshaping storage into a strategic enabler of enterprise AI success.
AI Benchmarking Hits New Heights with MLPerf Inference 5.1 Release
Three groundbreaking inference benchmarks debut reasoning models, speech recognition, and ultra-low latency scenarios as 27 organizations deliver record results.
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Podcasts
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.
AI-Driven Chip Design with Synopsys
Allyson Klein talks with Synopsys’ Anand Thiruvengadam on how agentic AI is reshaping chip design to meet extreme performance, time-to-market, and workforce challenges.
MLCommons: Setting the Standard for AI Performance
From storage to automotive, MLPerf is evolving with industry needs. Hear David Kanter explain how community-driven benchmarking is enabling reliable and scalable AI deployment.
Solidigm on Building Future-Ready AI Storage
Solidigm’s Ace Stryker joins Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski on Data Insights to explore how partnerships and innovation are reshaping storage for the AI era.
Iceotope’s Sustainable Cooling Vision for the AI Era
With sustainability at the core, Iceotope is pioneering liquid cooling solutions that reduce environmental impact while meeting the demands of AI workloads at scale.
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.
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.
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.
