Gestalt It Rundown

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 training, as unions accuse AI companies of using copyrighted works without consent. They also cover growing security concerns around agentic AI after researchers discovered serious vulnerabilities in MCP servers from Anthropic and Microsoft. Snowflake and OpenAI’s $200 million partnership to bring governed, production-ready AI into the enterprise data cloud, mounting financial pressure on Oracle with potential mass layoffs and a possible sale of Cerner, high-severity vulnerabilities in the n8n AI automation platform that allow remote code execution. They also discuss a critical Broadcom Wi-Fi chipset flaw capable of taking entire 5 GHz networks offline and new warnings from researcher Jason Meller about AI agent “skills” being