359: Tokenomicon Sounds Metal, but it’s Just Cloud Budgets
Episode 359 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, AI Tokens, Anthropic,Oracle, FinOps, Earnings, Brazo, Data Centers
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358: AI Spend Limits Because Frontier Models Aren’t Free Therapy
In Episode 358 of The Cloud Pod, Justin, Matt, and Ryan dive into the latest industry shifts, including Anthropic’s contradictory call for an AI development pause while prepping for an IPO, and GitHub’s massive scaling challenges amidst a surge in AI-generated code. The team also breaks down significant announcements from Snowflake, Google, and Azure, alongside a discussion on managing your AI Spend Limit as new agentic tools and compute-intensive workflows become the norm. Listen now to get the full rundown on the week’s biggest cloud news.
357: Cache Me If You Can – Now With Durability
Are tech executives suffering from “AI psychosis”? Is AI more expensive then the people it was meant to replace? This week, Justin and Matt dive into the reality behind the hype. From Uber burning its entire 2026 AI coding budget (in just four months if you believe the word on the street) to Microsoft shifting employees away from Claude Code due to costs, the economic tension of AI adoption is officially here. Turns out, you still need a human in the loop!
TCP-Talks: Keep the Raccoons Out: Service Mesh, MCP, and Securing Agentic Workloads.
Linkerd creator William Morgan joins TCP Talks to explain why your data center now has a raccoon problem. We get into service mesh ten years on, why he thinks MCP is a red herring, and how to keep unconstrained agentic workloads from wandering into production and deleting the database. The fix, as it turns out, is mostly remembering to lock the door.
356: Holy Labor Displacement, Batman! The Vatican Weighs In
Pope Leo on AI ethics and Labor, spy agencies buying models, and GitHub’s latest supply chain attack. Catch up on all the cloud news in Episode 356.
355: The Cloud Pod’s AI Pleads Not Guilty, Blames Philip K. Dick
Welcome to episode 355 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin is out, so Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt are holding down the fort to bring you…
354: US-Tirefire-1 lives up to its Stellar Reputation
Welcome to episode 354 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! This week was sort of a tire fire for the cloud, with US-East-1 losing power, TanStack…
353: Don’t Be Evil Unless the Government Asks Nicely
Episode 353 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, OpenAI, Don’t be Evil, deep sea cables, earnings, and GitHub
352: Google Next: Rebrandapalooza
Episode 351 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from Google Next, AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, Looker Studio, Gemini 3D, Mythos, and Artemis
351: IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money
Episode 351 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, AI Money, Looker Studio, Gemini 3D, Mythos, and Artemis