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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’s multi-billion-dollar nuclear power partnerships designed to keep pace with AI demand.
They also cover OpenAI putting its IPO on hold due to rising safety and hacking concerns, Apple’s strict new macOS security controls targeting rogue AI agents, Cloudflare launching its own free public Certificate Authority, Cowbell introducing an AI-powered Risk Advisor for cyber insurance, and the official beta release of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray."
This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Alastair Cooke and Jay Cuthrell.
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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 and Komprise are building smarter governance tools to keep enterprise data safe and structured for AI workloads.
Finally, the team looks at Schneider Electric’s software-defined power upgrades for data centers and Florida State University’s new campus quantum network.
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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 OpenAI's eye-watering $278 billion negative cash flow projection and concerning reports of Google's Gemini escaping sandbox controls to access live corporate credentials.
They examine the political arena as Donald Trump and Barack Obama present contrasting AI regulation strategies, while Senate disagreement stalls the Ratepayer Protection Act regarding who pays for massive data center power infrastructure.
Finally, the duo covers the bipartisan GUARD Act targeting senior financial scams, the Department of Energy's $215 million Quantum Genesis Q Competition, and a landmark federal antitrust lawsuit alleging illegal safety coordination among major AI rivals.
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0:00 - Cold Open
0:32 - Welcome to the Tech Field Day News Rundown
1:16 - OpenAI Projects $280B Cash Burn Through 2030
2:56 - Gemini AI Escapes Sandbox and Breaches Real Systems
6:08 - Trump, Obama Offer Different Visions for AI Safeguards
9:25 - House Passes GUARD Act to Fight Senior Scams
13:16 - Senate Stalls Data Center Energy Cost Bill
17:17 - DOE Launches $215M Quantum Computing Competition
21:07 - AI Giants Face Antitrust Lawsuit Over Alleged Slowdown Pact
30:36 - The Weeks Ahead
33:04 - Thanks for Watching
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Big tech moves, security shakeups, and heated debates over artificial intelligence are completely transforming the tech world.
In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down the latest headlines reshaping enterprise IT.
OpenAI is making a major hardware play by acquiring camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300 million, while the NSA prepares a massive reorganization into five focused units. Meanwhile, Salesforce and Splunk are introducing new tools to help businesses govern AI agents and control data costs.
Finally, Cornelis Networks secures $205 million for open AI networking, as industry leaders clash over how fast artificial intelligence should advance.
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0:00 - Cold Open
0:35 - Welcome to the Tech Field Day News Rundown
1:36 - Maryland Data Center Deal Comes With $110M Community Price Tag
4:16 - NSA Reorganization Could Reshape Its Cybersecurity Mission
7:21 - OpenAI Expands Hardware Push With $300M Glass Imaging Deal
10:38 - Cornelis Targets AI Networking With New Fabric Architecture
13:27 - Salesforce Launches AI Harness for Enterprise AI Agents
16:46 - Splunk Brings AI and Cost Controls to IT Operations
20:52 - Trump and NVIDIA CEO Push Back on AI Slowdown Calls
29:18 - The Weeks Ahead: Upcoming Events
32:49 - Thanks for Watching the Tech Field Day News Rundown
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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 downloads and creating hurdles for migration tools, Anthropic scrapping its $6B Descartes buyout in favor of a partnership, and Solo.io open-sourcing its Agent Desktop to solve AI tool sprawl on developer laptops.
Plus, the duo covers Kansas cities fighting citizen-led data center bans in court, UN calls for binding AI regulations, NEC pausing quantum hardware development, and a concerning security investigation revealing LG Smart TVs harvest audio and network data even offline.
This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
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0:00 - Cold Open
0:30 - Welcome to the Tech Field Day News Rundown
1:20 - Broadcom Restricts VDDK Access
5:30 - Anthropic Says No to Decart Acquisition
9:11 - Solo.io Working on Agentic AI Governance
12:42 - Kansas Using Courts to Block Data Center Petitions
16:44 - UN Says AI Needs Rules
20:10 - NEC to Stop Development on Quantum Hardware
23:53 - LG TVs Can Hear You
32:31 - The Weeks Ahead
35:59 - Thanks for Watching the Tech Field Day News Rundown
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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 hand the reins to John Ternus, and Together AI partnering with HUMAIN on a 250MW Saudi data center to beat domestic power limits.
Plus, we look at dangerous new crypto AML wallet draining scams, Signal65 and Kamiwaza’s PINNACLE benchmark exposing real-world AI failure rates, CrowdStrike’s launch of Falcon IQ, and Cloudflare’s new Adaptive Intelligence bot defenses.
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As companies push artificial intelligence into every corner of software and hardware, everyday consumers and IT teams are starting to feel the impact on their budgets and security.
In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke examine Meta’s reported $200 monthly AI agent platform Hatch, Cerebras’ massive CS-4 wafer-scale system, and high-stakes acquisition rumors surrounding Hugging Face.
The hosts also break down how skyrocketing demand for AI data centers is fueling both local political battles and global memory shortages that drive up device prices across the industry.
Finally, they cover emerging security risks, from AI-accelerated web application scanning to modern audio browser fingerprinting.
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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 vulnerabilities, and a major VMware vCenter attack campaign.
They also look at NVIDIA’s potential $105 billion commitment to OpenAI’s Ohio data center, Google moving its A2A protocol under the Agentic AI Foundation, rising cyberattacks against law firms, and the cautionary Nine PBS cloud storage disaster.
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When mid-air Wi-Fi scares meet massive enterprise AI investments, IT teams are forced to rethink both security and cloud strategy.
On this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down a fake Wi-Fi network detected on a Delta flight post-DEF CON that temporarily shut down inflight internet.
They also explore NetApp acquiring JetStream Software to ease VMware cloud disaster recovery, along with NVIDIA releasing open-source tools like Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard to cut enterprise AI costs.
IBM and Together AI are building a $240 million AI cluster on IBM Cloud, Sectigo launched its Orchestration Gateway to automate certificate renewals before TLS lifespans drop to 47 days, Blumira introduced the Hearth AI security command center, and the FBI teamed up with Huntress to patch thousands of compromised Microsoft Exchange servers using an attacker backdoor.
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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 Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down NScale’s $1.65 billion acquisition of AnyScale and Nexus Data Centers' massive $15 billion campus built for Anthropic in Texas.
They also explore how attackers are manipulating Microsoft Copilot for business email compromise, Anthropic’s accidental real-world breach, Cursor’s credit donations to the open-source FFmpeg project, and Okta’s $200 million acquisition of Permiso.
Finally, they take a closer look at the European Union enforcing strict new governance rules under the EU AI Act.
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