New Token Machines

About this Episode

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

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