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.
Dell’s AI Data Innovation: When Storage Takes Command
PowerScale delivers unmatched performance and scale for AI-driven transformation, while 122TB drives reshape enterprise infrastructure, proving storage is AI’s competitive edge in today’s data era.
‘Open to Work’: The Quickening of AI & the Future of Jobs
From Intel’s layoffs to stealth automation, AI is reshaping work at a pace that outstrips human adaptation—driving record stress, uneven gains, and a scramble to reskill before the next downturn hits.
Lightwave Logic’s Robert Blum on Polymer Optics for AI
Allyson Klein and Robert Blum of Lightwave Logic unpack how electro-optic polymers, paired with silicon photonics, lower power and boost density on the road to 400G-per-lane optics— with a 2027 volume ramp in sight.
Privacy-First AI in Healthcare: Optum’s Dr. Rohith Vangalla
From federated learning and zero-trust to confidential computing, Dr. Rohith Vangalla shares a practitioner’s playbook for explainable, scalable AI that moves healthcare from reactive to proactive.
Permission Debuts a Digital Mini-Me for the Agentic Era
Permission Agent turns user-approved signals into auditable datasets—paying contributors in $ASK—so teams can train and personalize AI with verifiable consent and enforceable revocation.
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.
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Podcasts
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.
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.
