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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Anthropic Accidentally Leaks Claude Code | Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 15, 2026
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...
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President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology | Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 8, 2026
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 profita...
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AI Urgency and AI Fatigue AT RSA Conference 2026 | Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 1, 2026
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...
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White House AI Roadmap Pushes to Block State Rules | Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 25, 2026
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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NVIDIA Blackwell & Vera Rubin $1 Trillion Projections | Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 18, 2026
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 CrowdSt...
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Qlik Answers, SpaceX vs Amazon, & Practical Quantum | Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 11, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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AI Booms, Quantum Breakthroughs, Cloud Wars, & Massive Acquisitions Took Over Enterprise IT in 2025
2025 was a year of seismic shifts in tech, as AI surged into a critical growth phase with massive investments, partnerships, and global trade battles over chips. Intel and HPE restructured for the AI era, quantum computing made strides with Microsoft, Google, and Cisco advancing real-world applic...
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Micron Exits Consumer Memory to Focus on AI Chips | Tech Field Day News Rundown: December 10, 2025
Micron is leaving the consumer memory market, including its Crucial brand, to focus on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI data centers. The company will continue selling consumer products until February 2026. The move comes amid a global chip shortage, and HBM sales are growing fast, making AI-fo...
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Apple Replaces AI Chief After Apple Intelligence Struggles | Tech Field Day News Rundown: December 3, 2025
Nokia is investing $4 billion to expand U.S. AI-ready network infrastructure, focusing primarily on Bell Labs and additional facilities in New Jersey, Texas, and Pennsylvania to strengthen connectivity, national security, and its NVIDIA partnership. At the same time, AWS is committing $50 billion...
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Nokia & AWS Unveil US AI Infrastructure Investments | Tech Field Day News Rundown: November 26, 2025
Nokia is investing $4 billion to expand U.S. AI-ready network infrastructure, focusing primarily on Bell Labs and additional facilities in New Jersey, Texas, and Pennsylvania to strengthen connectivity, national security, and its NVIDIA partnership. At the same time, AWS is committing $50 billion...
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Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Parts of the Internet | Tech Field Day News Rundown: November 19, 2025
Web infrastructure provider Cloudflare experienced a global disruption that caused widespread “Error 500” messages and took down major platforms including X and ChatGPT. The outage, triggered by a sudden spike in unusual network traffic, impacted thousands of websites early Tuesday and highlighte...
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CNCF, Arm Standardize AI on Kubernetes at KubeCon | Tech Field Day News Rundown: November 12, 2025
At KubeCon 2025, the CNCF launched the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to standardize AI and ML workloads on Kubernetes, ensuring portability across hybrid and sovereign clouds and preventing platform lock-in. Supported by companies like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Broadcom, and Red Ha...
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Commvault's Data Rooms for Easier AI Data Access | Tech Field Day News Rundown: November 5, 2025
Commvault’s Data Rooms let data science teams quickly access and prepare backup data, while a new AI-powered interface simplifies querying and managing it. Using data already classified during backup, teams can reduce manual prep, apply role-based access and sensitivity tags, and share data secur...
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U.S. Government Looks to Invest in Quantum Startups | Tech Field Day News Rundown: October 29, 2025
The U.S. government is considering taking stakes in quantum computing startups like Atom Computing, D-Wave, IonQ, Rigetti, and Quantum Computing in exchange for federal funding of at least $10 million each. Managed through the Commerce Department’s CHIPS program, the plan aims to support U.S. qua...
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Amazon Web Services Recovers After Major Global Outage | Tech Field Day Rundown: October 22, 2025
AWS is restoring operations after a massive outage disrupted internet access worldwide, affecting major platforms like Snapchat, Facebook, Fortnite, Delta, Coinbase, and several banks. The issue stemmed from a DNS failure that temporarily prevented access to data stored in AWS systems, causing wi...