Tech Field Day News Rundown
2 Seasons
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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White House AI Roadmap Pushes to Block State Rules | Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 25, 2026
Episode 1
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 ...
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Qlik Answers, SpaceX vs Amazon, & Practical Quantum | Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 11, 2026
Episode 2
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 Pro...
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AI in Overdrive with Chips, Networks, and Robots | Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 4, 2026
Episode 3
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, str...
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AI’s Soaring Power Needs Push Tech Giants to Build Private Energy Networks | Tech Field Day News Rundown: February 25, 2026
Episode 4
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 digni...
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Putting the Brakes on Agentic AI: Human Control Comes to OpenClaw | Tech Field Day News Rundown: February 18, 2026
Episode 5
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-...
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EU Challenges Meta Over WhatsApp AI Restrictions - Tech Field Day News Rundown: February 11, 2026
Episode 6
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...
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AI Agent Skills are a New Malware Supply Chain Risk | Tech Field Day News Rundown: February 4, 2026
Episode 7
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 trainin...
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NVIDIA $2B AI Play, Blue Origin TeraWave, & More | Tech Field Day News Rundown: January 28, 2026
Episode 8
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 se...
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Rushing AI to Market Creates Dangerous Security Gaps | Tech Field Day News Rundown: January 21, 2026
Episode 9
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 ...
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Predict 2026: AI is Shaping Business and Technology | Tech Field Day News Rundown: January 14, 2026
Episode 10
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, accelerate...
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NVIDIA Unveils Rubin Platform & Open AI Vision at CES | Tech Field Day News Rundown: January 7, 2026
Episode 11
At CES 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a sweeping vision for the future of AI, led by the Rubin platform—the company’s first extreme-codesigned, six-chip AI architecture designed to dramatically reduce AI computing costs while scaling performance across data centers, enterprises, and devic...