Tech Field Day News Rundown

The global AI landscape is shifting fast as Chinese tech giants disrupt hardware norms and infrastructure demands trigger real-world community backlash. In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke dive into DeepSeek's ambitious move to develop its own AI silicon to bypass U.S. export caps, coupled with a surprising trend of U.S. companies turning to...

Big Tech and the space industry are completely rewriting the rules of infrastructure, from low-Earth orbit down to the safety guardrails of generative AI. In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke tackle Rocket Lab’s massive $8 billion acquisition of satellite operator Iridium and its play for total space infrastructure dominance. They also dive into...

The AI arms race is no longer just about software, it’s becoming a global battle for power, infrastructure, and control. This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down how Microsoft’s 20-year Chevron deal signals massive energy demands for AI data centers, why Accenture is building a $4.2B cybersecurity platform through acquisitions like Dragos, runZe...

The AI industry just hit several major inflection points at once. This episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, recorded live from HPE Discover 2026 in Las Vegas, features Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke breaking down Anthropic’s sudden shutdown of Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 following a U.S. export control directive, the growing server memory crisis impacting Dell and HPE, and Apple’s sur...

AI is reshaping every corner of the technology industry and this week’s headlines prove it. On this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Vincent Celindro break down AWS’s new AI-powered FinOps Agent designed to control runaway cloud costs, SpaceX’s massive $920 million-per-month AI infrastructure deal with Google, and OpenAI’s confidential IPO filing that could redefin...

AI is moving beyond chatbots and into the fabric of business, infrastructure, and even filmmaking. In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Alastair Cooke and Guy Currier examine Microsoft’s transformation of Microsoft 365 Copilot into a workflow-native AI platform, NVIDIA’s unveiling of its custom Arm-based Vera CPU, and the growing battle to control the enterprise AI agent workforce....

What happens when three developers burn through $1.3 million in AI compute in just 30 days? This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down the explosive cost of AI coding agents after OpenClaw revealed massive token usage powered by OpenAI systems, raising serious questions about whether autonomous development workflows are financially sustainable. Th...

The AI infrastructure race is escalating fast, and the stakes are now measured in billions of dollars, gigawatts of power, and global regulatory pressure. This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown , Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down Google and Blackstone’s massive proposed AI cloud partnership, the environmental controversy surrounding Utah’s gigantic Stratos AI data center campus...

AI infrastructure is evolving faster than ever, and this week’s biggest tech stories could reshape the future of cloud, compute, and enterprise IT. This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown , Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke disucss Mirantis being acquired by IREN to accelerate open AI infrastructure, Lumen’s acquisition of Alkira to modernize hybrid networking, and Red Hat’s push toward AI...

The AI gold rush is continuing to change the future of infrastructure, but at what cost? In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Alastair Cooke is joined by Vincent Celindro to break down the biggest enterprise tech stores of the week. Belden’s $1.85B acquisition of RUCKUS Networks signals a major push toward full-stack IT/OT convergence, Meanwhile, Broadcom rolls out VMware Cloud Foun...

The AI arms race is shifting from apps to infrastructure, devices, and pricing models. On this week’s Tech Field Day News Rundown, Alastair Cooke is joined by guest co-host Guy Currier to break down the IT news of the week with a variable degree of snark. Google unveils its Virgo network, a massive AI backbone built to connect over 100,000 chips and push scale to a new level, while the Federal Com...

AI agents are getting more powerful and a little more concerning. In this episode of Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down a packed week of IT news, from ServiceNow and Qlik teaming up to improve AI data workflows, to Anthropic pushing boundaries with Claude controlling your desktop and accidentally leaking parts of its own code. The conversation also covers...

AI isn’t just a technology race, it’s a trillion-dollar gamble that could reshape the global economy. On the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Alastair Cooke and guest host Gina Rosenthal discuss how OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing toward major IPOs while facing massive costs that could delay profitability for years. At the same time, IBM and Arm are helping enterprises adopt AI across mixed systems w...

On this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, the future of tech gets bigger, faster, and more secure. Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke discuss Starcloud raising $170 million to build orbital data centers in space, Cisco’s new tools to secure AI agents announced at RSA Conference 2026, and record-breaking cloud spending driven by AI across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. They also cover a...

From AI-powered satellites in orbit to a seismic shift in how we pay for enterprise software, the global tech landscape is being redrawn in real-time. Guy Currier⁠ , Research Director for ⁠The Futurum Group⁠ , joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alastair Cooke on this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown to discuss SAP’s pivot toward value-based AI pricing, Blue Origin’s ambitious "...

AI’s next phase is arriving fast—and it’s reshaping everything from cloud performance to cybersecurity. This week, Amazon Web Services and Cerebras unveiled a new approach to dramatically accelerate AI inference by pairing specialized chips through Amazon Bedrock, while Dell, Nutanix, and CrowdStrike rolled out infrastructure and security innovations at GTC 2026 to support the rapid rise of agenti...

From AI sandboxing to billionaire battles in space, this week’s Tech Field Day News Rundown dives into the tech stories shaping our future. On this episode of Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Chris Grundemann cover a whirlwind of tech developments. Security researcher Niels Provos introduces IronCurtain, an AI assistant built to enforce strict security policies, while Qlik Answer...

The AI race is no longer just about models — it’s about infrastructure, security, and who controls the pipes. On this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down NVIDIA’s $4 billion investment in optical networking leaders Lumentum and Coherent, strengthening its AI supercomputing supply chain as competition with AMD and Meta intensifies. They examin...

On this week’s Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke unpack a pivotal moment for artificial intelligence. Privacy regulators coordinated through the Global Privacy Assembly warned about AI-generated images and videos created without consent, raising alarms over dignity, safety, and basic rights. In U.S. politics, governors like JB Pritzker, Josh Shapiro, and Wes Moore a...

The open-source ClawBands project aims to restore human oversight to OpenClaw, a wildly popular autonomous AI assistant capable of executing shell commands, modifying files, and accessing APIs. Created by software engineer Sandro Munda, ClawBands intercepts every tool call and enforces “human-in-the-loop” approval before actions are executed, creating an auditable decision trail. The project emerg...

European regulators are taking action against Meta over concerns that it is restricting competition by blocking third-party AI assistants on WhatsApp. The European Commission says Meta’s recent policy changes may violate EU antitrust rules and is considering interim measures to restore access for rival AI developers while the investigation continues. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundow...

This week’s Tech Field Day News Rundown dives into the biggest AI, security, and enterprise shakeups. Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke deliver this week’s Tech Field Day News Rundown, starting with a global push by actors and musicians calling for a “permission-first” approach to AI training, as unions accuse AI companies of using copyrighted works without consent. They also cover growing secu...

Tom Hollingsworth and guest host Jay Cuthrell bring the latest tech news straight to you in this week’s Tech Field Day News Rundown! They kick things off with Obsidian Security’s new SaaS updates, giving tighter control over third-party integrations and reducing breach risks. Fidelity’s legal settlement with Broadcom over VMware software gets discussed, showing why vendor changes can ripple throug...

A critical ServiceNow vulnerability shows how quickly deployed AI features can turn into major security risks. By rushing agentic AI into production without proper authentication, authorization, and safeguards, organizations are creating new attack paths that bypass traditional defenses. Experts warn that AI agents need zero-trust controls, least-privilege access, and lifecycle management—or enter...

For 2026, AI is no longer a trend—it’s becoming foundational infrastructure, transforming how software is built, how cloud and data centers operate, how security is enforced, and how businesses compete. Predict 2026, hosted by Futurum, explores these shifts with sessions on agentic AI, accelerated development, trust and security, data infrastructure, and the physical limits of AI. Leaders will gai...