Companies traded people for tokens. The returns haven’t shown up

Jensen Huang has a test for whether an engineer is worth keeping, and it comes with a token budget attached. On the All-In Podcast at the close of GTC 2026, the Nvidia chief executive said that if a US$500,000 engineer’s annual AI token consumption came in under US$250,000, half their salary, “I am going to be deeply alarmed.” Nvidia, […] The post Companies traded people for tokens. The returns haven’t shown up appeared first on AI News.