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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 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…
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