AI
Highlights
MLCommons Raises the Bar for AI PCs with MLPerf Client v1.0
MLCommons launches industry-standard benchmarks for LLM performance on PCs, cutting through marketing hype and giving developers and enterprises the transparent metrics they need.
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.
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
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.
Dell on Storage Innovation in the AI-Driven Enterprise
Dell and Solidigm leaders explore how modern storage—flash, SSDs, and flexible architectures—enables AI, accelerates performance, and helps enterprises manage data across edge to cloud.
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.
Optimizing AI Scale-Out: Cornelis Networks’ Vision with Lisa Spelman
Lisa Spelman, CEO of Cornelis Networks, discusses the future of AI scale-out, Omni-Path architecture, and how their innovative solutions drive performance, scalability, and interoperability in data centers.
AI on Your Desk with Uptime Industries’ Lemony
Join Sascha Buehrle of Uptime Industries as he reveals how Lemony AI offers scalable, secure, on-premise solutions, speeding adoption of genAI.
Ayar Labs' Mark Wade on Optical I/O Boosting AI Performance
Mark Wade, CEO of Ayar Labs, explains how optical I/O technology is enhancing AI infrastructure, improving data movement, reducing bottlenecks, and driving efficiency in large-scale AI systems.
AI Innovation, Energy Efficiency & Future Trends with Neeraj Kumar
Neeraj Kumar, Chief Data Scientist at PNNL, discusses AI's role in scientific discovery, energy-efficient computing, and collaboration with Micron to advance memory systems for AI and high-performance computing.
Exploring AI Innovation with Hitachi Ventures' Gayathri Radhakrishnan
Guest Gayathri “G” Radhakrishnan, Partner at Hitachi Ventures, joins host Allyson Klein on the eve of the AIHW and Edge Summit to discuss innovation in the AI space, future adoption of AI, and more.
Privacy, AI, and the Future of Cloud Computing with Rita Kozlov
Join Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski as they chat with Rita Kozlov from Cloudflare about their innovative cloud solutions, AI integration, and commitment to privacy and sustainability.
