Software Defined Talk

Episode 564: New Token Machines

Software Defined Talk

Show Notes

This week, we discuss NVIDIA GTC, token machines, token budgets, and an AWS outage that may or may not involve AI. Plus, Matt reviews The Wizard of Oz at The Sphere.

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Runner-up Titles

Let's T this up.

One Trillion Dollars

Leader to laggard

My terms of service

Someone should come up with a term

Networking FOMO

Slide crimes

It’s token machines all the way down.

The Claude-ning

So why Nemo Cloud?

You’re just selling token machines

Billionaire version of Gallagher

I’ve seen too much

Upward Replicability

Rundown

NVIDA GTC

Nvidia bets on AI inference as chip revenue opportunity hits $1 trillion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: $1 trillion in chip sales coming

Keynote at NVIDIA GTC San Jose 2026

AI Roundup

Amazon just called an emergency engineering meeting after AI coding tools caused multiple outages.

2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far)

Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause millions of lost orders

Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models

MCP vs. CLI for AI-native development - CircleCI

Relevant to your Interests

YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company

The Lobster That Moved $50 Billion

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work

Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

How to Do Code Reviews in the Agentic Era

Elon Musk Says He's Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding "From the Foundations"

The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing

Introducing Chainguard Commercial Builds: Secure-by-default containers

Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines

The State of AI in the Enterprise - 2026 AI report

Agents Over Bubbles

"Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question."

Listener Feedback

Recap of SCALE 23x with Barton George

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