Tech Field Day News Rundown | Futurum Media
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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Rogue AI Hits Banks, Anthropic Files Historic IPO | Tech Field Day News Rundown: October 28, 2026
From autonomous AI agents infiltrating customer bank accounts to Anthropic’s jaw-dropping $100 billion IPO filing, enterprise technology is colliding head-on with an aggressive new reality.
This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Alastair Cooke and guest Ed Weadon discuss major U.S. banks...
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Nuclear Data Centers, Anthropic IPO, & HyperArmor | Tech Field Day News Rundown: October 21, 2026
Could Russian nuclear power actually fuel the next wave of global AI infrastructure, or will escalating sanctions and cyberwarfare pull the plug before breaking ground?
On this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollin...
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AMD Helion, Cloudflare Absorbs Deno & $40B Deepfakes | Tech Field Day News Rundown: October 14, 2026
Can data centers rethink compute balance to survive the surging overhead of autonomous AI agents?
On this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth an...
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Google's Nuclear AI Power Play & OpenAI IPO Delay | Tech Field Day News Rundown: October 7, 2026
From massive nuclear energy deals to sudden delays on Wall Street, big tech is fundamentally reshaping both its infrastructure power grid and its security standards. Join hosts Alastair Cooke and Jay Cuthrell on this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown as they break down Google and Oracle’...
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Muse AI Agent Goes Rogue & Better Governance | Tech Field Day News Rundown: September 30, 2026
Are autonomous AI agents pushing the boundaries of data access too far? On this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke tackle growing security concerns as OpenAI and Meta agents face scrutiny over unauthorized data access. They also explore how MongoDB an...
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OpenAI Cash, Rogue AI & Grid Power | Tech Field Day News Rundown: September 23, 2026
From runaway AI agents breaching real-world systems to hundreds of billions on the line in compute and energy grid wars, the tech landscape is moving faster and getting more volatile than ever. In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Dave Graham analyze Ope...
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OpenAI’s $300M Hardware Acquisition, NSA Overhaul, & AI Debates | Tech Field Day News Rundown: September 16, 2026
Big tech moves, security shakeups, and heated debates over artificial intelligence are completely transforming the tech world. In this clip from the Tech Field Day News Rundown, hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down the latest headlines reshaping enterprise IT. OpenAI is making a ...
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LG TVs Are Listening, Anthropic, Broadcom, & More | Tech Field Day News Rundown: September 9, 2026
Is your smart TV secretly recording your conversations even when turned off?
In this post-Labor Day episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down the top enterprise tech and AI headlines.
They discuss Broadcom pulling public VMware VDDK down...
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NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face & Tim Cook Steps Down | Tech Field Day News Rundown: September 2, 2026
Big tech is shifting fast as massive acquisitions, executive shakeups, and real-world AI challenges redefine the industry landscape.
In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, we break down reports of NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face for $13 billion, Apple CEO Tim Cook stepping down to ha...
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Cloud Costs, Critical Vulnerabilities & PBS Issues | Tech Field Day News Rundown: August 19, 2026
Cloud storage costs, security threats, and AI infrastructure are creating new challenges for IT teams.
This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke discuss Lucidity expanding cloud optimization to Azure object storage, Microsoft patching nearly 400 vulnera... -
Rogue AI Agents, Copilot Exploits, & EU AI Enforcement | Tech Field Day News Rundown: August 5, 2026
From rogue AI models accidentally breaching live servers to cybercriminals hijacking corporate copilot tools, keeping up with rapid tech developments can feel like a wild ride.
In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, hosts Tom Holl... -
AWS Outage, NVIDIA’s $500B Bet & US Army’s Token Crisis | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 29, 2026
What happens when "unlimited" AI usage runs out of cash in six weeks, or a single cloud outage takes down everything from food delivery to digital payments?
On this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down the latest disruption in AWS's US West...
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VMware Pressure, AI Compute Wars & Data Center Limits | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 15, 2026
Is your IT strategy quietly giving up control?
Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke examine VMware’s rising costs and lock-in risks, AI-driven cybersecurity, the escalating open-versus-closed model race, and the strain AI data centers place on local infrastructure.
They also explore concerns ...
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DeepSeek Builds AI Chips & Microsoft Datacenter Lawsuit | Tech Field Dasy News Rundown: July 8, 2026
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 ...
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Rocket Lab’s $8B Mega-Deal, Windows 10 Saved & AI Safety | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 1, 2026
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...
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AI Infrastructure Wars, Supercomputers, and $60B SpaceX Deal | Tech Field Day Rundown: June 24, 2026
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 ...
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AI Export Bans, Memory Shortages & Apple’s Nvidia Deal | Tech Field Day News Rundown: June 17, 2026
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 ...
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AWS FinOps Agent, OpenAI IPO & SpaceX $920M Cloud Deal | Tech Field Day News Rundown: June 10, 2026
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 millio...
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NVIDIA Vera, Anthropic’s IPO & Cisco’s AI Platform Play | Tech Field Day Rundown: June 3, 2026
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 ...
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AI’s $1.3M Coding Bill, Quantum, & the Pope's Message on Artificial Intelligence | Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 27, 2026
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, r...
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Google vs NVIDIA, Power Grid Strain, & AI Infrastructure | Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 20, 2026
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 cl...
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$725B Bets, Belden Buys RUCKUS, & Broadcom’s Cloud Play | Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 6, 2026
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 ...
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Google Cloud Next Announcements & Microsoft adds Mythos | Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 29, 2026
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 ma...
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Ubuntu Heats Up, NVIDIA Goes Quantum, Apple's New Era | Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 22, 2026
Everything in enterprise tech is changing faster than teams can keep up.
This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down the biggest stories, from Canonical unveiling Ubuntu 26.10 to NVIDIA pushing deeper into quantum AI, and SUSE doubling down on en...