In 2025, the internet’s fragility and AI’s complexity collided in public. The big vendors responded by buying the pieces they need to sell the integrated story that they have AI risk under control.
Robots aren’t going to fold your laundry by February. But Voice of Innovation Niv Sundaram predicts that an urgent caregiver shortage will move humanoids “from warehouses to living rooms” in 2026.
Marvell is inking a deal for optical interconnect startup Celestial AI in a massive bet that the industry has shifted from being compute-constrained to bandwidth-constrained.
As AI training pushes data centers to unprecedented power densities, researchers reveal an affordable solution that lets computing thrive on fluctuating renewable energy.
In Part 1 of Voice of Innovation Matty Bakkeren’s 2026 predictions series, he explores how AI, power, cooling, and supply chains are reshaping data center infrastructure for a utility-scale future.
As up to 10 million jobs disappear and quality content moves behind paywalls, the question isn’t if AI will reshape society. It’s whether 2026 is the year we’ll control the burn or watch it spread.
From 122TB QLC SSDs to rack-scale liquid cooling, Solidigm and Supermicro are redefining high-density, power-efficient AI infrastructure—scaling storage to 3PB in just 2U of rack space.
At NVIDIA’s GTC, Supermicro and Solidigm showcased advanced storage and cooling technologies, addressing the growing demands of AI and data center infrastructure.
At OCP Dublin, Bel Power’s Cliff Gore shares how the company is advancing high-efficiency, high-density power shelves—preparing to meet AI’s demand for megawatt-class rack-scale infrastructure.
At OCP Dublin, ZeroPoint’s Nilesh Shah explains how NeoCloud data centers are reshaping AI infrastructure needs—and why memory and storage innovation is mission-critical for LLM performance.
From full rack-scale builds to ITAD, Circle B is powering AI-ready, sustainable infrastructure across Europe—leveraging OCP designs to do more with less in a power-constrained market.
In this TechArena interview, Avayla CEO Kelley Mullick explains why AI workloads and edge deployments are driving a liquid cooling boom—and how cold plate, immersion, and nanoparticle cooling all fit in.
Runpod head of engineering Brennen Smith joins a Data Insights episode to unpack GPU-dense clouds, hidden storage bottlenecks, and a “universal orchestrator” for long-running AI agents at scale.
From CPU orchestration to scaling efficiency in networks, leaders reveal how to assess your use case, leverage existing infrastructure, and productize AI instead of just experimenting.
From the OCP Global Summit, hear why 50% GPU utilization is a “civilization-level” problem, and why open standards are key to unlocking underutilized compute capacity.
In the Arena: Allyson Klein with Axelera CMO Alexis Crowell on inference-first AI silicon, a customer-driven SDK, and what recent tapeouts reveal about the roadmap.
In this episode of Data Insights, host Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Dr. Rohith Vangalla of Optum to discuss the future of AI in healthcare.
From OCP Summit, Metrum AI CEO Steen Graham unpacks multi-agent infrastructure, SSD-accelerated RAG, and the memory-to-storage shift—plus a 2026 roadmap to boost GPU utilization, uptime, and time-to-value.
TechArena host Allyson Klein interviews Netflix’s Tejas Chopra about how Netflix’s recommendation engines require memory innovation across performance and efficiency in advance of his keynote at MemCon 2024 later this month.
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Physia about their generative AI based patient care platform and how they aim to create a new AI + doctor model to improve patient care and transform the medical industry.
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Artefacto’s Anna Giralt Gris about her views on the future of film and the impact that AI will make in re-shaping one of humanity’s most creative mediums.
TechArena host Allyson Klein talks to MemryX VP of Product and Business Development Roger Peene about how his company is transforming AI at the edge with their silicon and how we’re sitting in an AI revolution.
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Unravel Data CEO Kunal Argawal about how his organization is tapping AI to disrupt the data observability arena.
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.