Tech Field Day News Rundown

Tech Field Day News Rundown

13 Episodes

This weekly news show from Tech Field Day breaks down the IT new for the week that was with a variable degree of snarkiness, hosted by Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.

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Tech Field Day News Rundown
  • Tariffs hit Enterprise Cloud || Tech Field Day News Rundown: June 4, 2025

    Episode 1

    New global tariffs are making it more expensive and complicated for enterprises to manage their cloud services across regions. These changes are causing unpredictable costs and creating challenges for global cloud strategies. To stay ahead, companies need to improve visibility, automate processes...

  • OpenAI Acquires io for $6.4 Billion || Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 28, 2025

    Episode 2

    OpenAI has announced its largest acquisition to date, agreeing to acquire io, an AI device startup founded by former Apple executive Jony Ive, in an all-equity deal worth approximately $6.5 billion. The acquisition includes OpenAI’s existing stake in io. As part of the merger, Jony Ive will assum...

  • US Signs Take It Down Act || The Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 21, 2025

    Episode 3

    The US government signed a new act into law that has opponents concerned about the ramifications of what it will be used to do. The Take It Down Act was proposed to allow for the rapid takedown of non-consensual intimate images, or NCII, from the Internet. The law requires social media platforms ...

  • Futurum Group Foresees Cybersecurity Futures || Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 14, 2025

    Episode 4

    Last week saw the release of a big new report from the Futurum Group around cybersecurity. The research says that the market is going to grow by 11.6% per year for the rest of the decade. By then it should be worth almost $300 billion. Fernando Montenegro states that cybersecurity is a cornerston...

  • AI Growth Driving Cloud Provider Investment || Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 7, 2025

    Episode 5

    The demand for AI services is driving more growth in public cloud platforms, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have all continued investment in the public cloud platforms to keep up with generative AI. Andy Jassy highlighted triple-digit growth in AI revenues, Microsoft has committed to 40% more capa...

  • Another Round of Layoffs for Intel as they Streamline || Tech Field Day Rundown: April 30, 2025

    Episode 6

    Intel is still looking to smooth out their operations under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The announcement came last week that Intel is going to be cutting more positions. Initial reports rumored that it could be as much 20,000 employees but CFO David Zinsner refuted that number last Friday. Instead, each ...

  • Chris Krebs Resigns from SentinelOne || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 23, 2025

    Episode 7

    Half a century is a long time for an IT business, and Microsoft is justified in making a lot of noise to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The celebration brought together three Microsoft CEOs: Gates, Balmer, and Nadella. Microsoft CoPilot isn’t quite as old as the company, but it was still at...

  • Embracing Physical AI at Intel Vision 2025 || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 16, 2025

    Episode 8

    At Intel Vision 2025, CEO Lip-Bu Tan emphasized a customer-centric strategy, focusing on advancements in AI PCs, Gaudi 3 accelerators, and the 18A process node. He introduced the concept of “Physical AI,” highlighting Intel’s commitment to integrating AI into hardware solutions across various sec...

  • Microsoft Turns Fifty || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 9, 2025

    Episode 9

    Half a century is a long time for an IT business, and Microsoft is justified in making a lot of noise to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The celebration brought together three Microsoft CEOs: Gates, Balmer, and Nadella. Microsoft CoPilot isn’t quite as old as the company, but it was still at...

  • Lip-Bu Tan Lays Out Intel Recovery Plans || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 2, 2025

    Episode 10

    During the keynote for Intel VIsion 2025, new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told the attendees about his vision for the return of Intel. He said that intel needs to attract engineering talent, fix the balance sheet issues, and look at manufacturing processes. One of the biggest ways to take care of those last t...

  • Just How Secure Is Signal? || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 26, 2025

    Episode 11

    This week has been a big one for messaging privacy. The news broke on Monday that the Editor-in-Chief for The Atlantic magazine was accidentally added to a Signal group where members of the US government were talking about highly classified military actions. The report kicked off a firestorm of C...

  • NVIDIA Reveals Rubin AI and Blackwell Ultra || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 19, 2025

    Episode 12

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    NVIDIA unveiled new AI-focused chips at its GTC conference, including the Blackwell Ultra series launching this year and the next-gen Vera Rubin GPUs set for 2026. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the company’s shift to an annual release cycle, a departure from it...

  • Is The CHIPS Act Crushed? || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 12, 2025

    Episode 13

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    NVIDIA unveiled new AI-focused chips at its GTC conference, including the Blackwell Ultra series launching this year and the next-gen Vera Rubin GPUs set for 2026. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the company’s shift to an annual release cycle, a departure from it...