President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology | Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 8, 2026

President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology | Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 8, 2026

From Tech Field Day News Rundown by Tech Field Day

April 8, 2026 · 35 min

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The episode discusses the high-stakes AI race involving major companies and the implications for the global economy.

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 profitability for years. At the same time, IBM and Arm are helping enterprises adopt AI across mixed systems without replacing existing infrastructure, while Maine considers slowing new data center builds over energy concerns. Komprise is working to reduce rising storage costs, and Amazon is looking to expand its satellite network with a potential acquisition of Globalstar to better compete with SpaceX. Meanwhile, Microsoft is improving developer workflows with Project Nighthawk, and in Washington, Donald Trump has tapped leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Larry Ellison, and Sergey Brin to help guide AI policy, showing that the future of AI will be decided not just by innovation, but by who can manage the cost, infrastructure, and regulation behind it. In the end, the winners of the AI race won’t just be the most innovative—but the ones who can afford to sustain it at scale. Time…

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