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Capital and Code: Nvidia's Bid to Secure the Agent Economy
How Compute Dominance Became Control Over Autonomous AI

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Capital and Code: Nvidia's Bid to Secure the Agent Economy The AI revolution isn't being won in the model layer—it's being locked down in the silicon. While the world obsessed over chatbots, Nvidia quietly constructed the only infrastructure capable of verifying, bounding, and insuring autonomous agents at scale. *Capital and Code* exposes how a graphics chip monopoly became the sovereign of the synthetic workforce: from CUDA's decades-long moat and NVLink's interconnect stranglehold, to confidential computing enclaves that make unforgeable digital identity a hardware primitive. This is the definitive account of how compute scarcity was weaponized into governance authority—and why every enterprise, intelligence agency, and sovereign wealth fund now pays tithe to Santa Clara to run a synthetic worker they can trust.

Spanning twenty-five chapters of forensic detail, the book traces the full vertical integration: the capital tsunami that disciplined Wall Street into ecosystem enforcement, the venture engine that preempted open-source alternatives, the sovereign AI alliances redrawing geopolitical borders around EUV supply chains, and the emerging black markets for Tier-One silicon. You'll see how NeMo Guardrails shifted safety from aspiration to architecture, why hyperscalers are locked in co-opetition they cannot escape, and how "digital feudalism" now rations access to post-human labor. The threat models are visceral: memory poisoning, algorithmic collusion, rogue agents moving at millisecond speeds across financial ledgers and critical infrastructure.

For technologists, executives, policymakers, and anyone trying to navigate the next economic paradigm, *Capital and Code* is the essential map of the new power structure. The algorithms may propose—but the silicon dictates. Understand the machinery now, or negotiate your access later.

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Silicon Foundation: The Architecture of Hardware Hegemony
  • Chapter 2 From Pixels to Parallelism: The Strategic Origins of CUDA
  • Chapter 3 The Capital Tsunami: Wall Street and the Valuation of Scarcity
  • Chapter 4 Rise of the Synthetic Worker: Defining the Autonomous Agent Economy
  • Chapter 5 The Bottleneck as Leverage: How Compute Allocations Dictate Innovation
  • Chapter 6 The Silicon Gatekeepers: Establishing the Hardware Root of Trust
  • Chapter 7 Confidential Computing: Securing Agent Memory in the Data Center
  • Chapter 8 NeMo Guardrails and the Shift from Hardware to Governance
  • Chapter 9 The Software Moat: How Proprietary Stacks Preempt Open Source
  • Chapter 10 Packaging Trust: Enterprise Security in Multi-Agent Deployments
  • Chapter 11 The Venture Engine: Nvidia’s Strategic Investments Across the AI Ecosystem
  • Chapter 12 Sovereign AI: Nation-States, Data Borderlines, and Infrastructure Alliances
  • Chapter 13 The Alignment Layer: Translating Safety Protocols into Silicon Primitives
  • Chapter 14 The Interconnect Monopoly: NVLink, Networking, and Ecosystem Lock-in
  • Chapter 15 Agentic Identity: Hardware Verification for Autonomous Digital Entities
  • Chapter 16 The Cloud Wars: Co-opetition with Hyperscalers for the Agent Runtime
  • Chapter 17 The Security Cartel: Standardizing Autonomous Threat Prevention
  • Chapter 18 Shadow Compute: The Illicit Trade and Black Markets for Tier-One Chips
  • Chapter 19 Algorithmic Collusion: When Autonomous Financial and Supply Agents Interact
  • Chapter 20 Regulatory Enclosure: How Compliance Standards Solidify Market Control
  • Chapter 21 The Geopolitics of Extreme Ultraviolet: Securing Supply Chains for the Agent Age
  • Chapter 22 The Edge Imperative: Deploying Guarded Autonomous Systems into Physical Space
  • Chapter 23 The Threat of Commoditization: Competing Accelerators and Custom Silicon
  • Chapter 24 Digital Feudalism: The Power Dynamics of Compute-Backed Authority
  • Chapter 25 The Controlled Horizon: Governing the Post-Human Labor Economy
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Dylan R. Powell

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