Gestalt It Rundown

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 dignity, safety, and basic rights. In U.S. politics, governors like JB Pritzker, Josh Shapiro, and Wes Moore are cooling on AI incentives as voters push back on energy costs and job disruption. On the engineering side, Microsoft shares lessons on designing MCP servers that align with how AI agents actually work, while Lasso Security introduces real-time behavioral monitoring to keep agentic AI in bounds. Meanwhile, Amazon disputes claims—reported by the Financial Times—that AI coding tools caused recent AWS outages. Add in a real-world quantum teleportation milestone by Deutsche Telekom and Qunnect, plus growing scrutiny of behind-the-meter data centers from firms like Meta and Oracle, and it’s clear: AI’s next chapter will