AI
Highlights
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.
Agentic AI in Engineering: From Vision to Workforce Transformation
At the crossroads of Synopsys and Microsoft innovation , agentic AI is no longer a future vision – it’s a catalyst for technical acceleration and a redefinition of engineering roles.
Stanford’s Daniel Wu on Trust, Agents & the Future of AI
From agentic and embodied AI to trust and human capacity, Stanford’s Daniel Wu shares how infrastructure and intentionality will shape the next era of AI transformation.
From GPU to Model: Together AI Powers the AI Pipeline
From open-source models to enterprise partnerships, Together AI drives multidimensional growth — accelerating adoption, engagement, and impact across the entire AI development lifecycle.
Silicon Shakeups & More: Allyson Klein's 2025 Predictions Scorecard
From AI scandals to quantum breakthroughs, Allyson Klein shares what’s tracking with her 2025 tech forecast — and what caught her off guard halfway through the year.
Examining AI’s Role in FinTech Innovation
AI Expert Anusha Nerella shares how financial institutions are laying the groundwork for responsible AI adoption, balancing innovation with compliance at scale.
Optum’s AI Health Care Vision: Privacy-First Innovation
From predicting sepsis before symptoms appear to enabling rural clinics to make specialist-level diagnoses, a privacy-first approach to AI in health care promises to transform lives.
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.
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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.
Real-Time Supply Chain Control with Oii
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Oii CEO Bob Rogers about his team’s AI-based solution for real-time modeling and management of supply chains and the opportunity for AI to drive actionable solutions for business and society.
Futurecasting Technology, Society and You
TechArena host Allyson Klein talks with futurist Brian David Johnson about future and threatcasting, and how taking agency to envision our future places us in the drivers seat to shape it.
Fantasy Football Supremacy with WalterPicks’ Sam Factor
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with WalterPicks co-founder Sam Factor about how AI helps deliver 17% superior recommendations to fantasy football lineups vs. the major recommendation sites.
AI Assisted Therapy with Lyssn’s Zac Imel
TechArena host Allyson Klein talks with Lyssn co-founder Zac Imel about how his company intends to change the shape of mental health using artificial intelligence.
