20260312 - AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money
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20260312 - AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money
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Sources:
- Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3
- I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2024635825997459841
the inference compute available to you is increasingly going to drive overall software productivity https://x.com/gdb/status/2024662197692223857 - Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSM0xd8xHUM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
- Sam Altman: This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #599 (2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYn8VKW6vXA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
- Nvidia CEO hints at end of investments in OpenAI, Anthropic https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-will-not-be-able-invest-100-billion-openai-due-ipo-ceo-jensen-says-2026-03-04/
- Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/
Previously on Pivot to AI:
- Sam Altman rebrands Worldcoin to 'World', still wants your eyeballs https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/20/sam-altman-rebrands-worldcoin-to-world-still-wants-your-eyeballs/
- What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/21/what-satya-nadella-actually-said-at-davos-about-ai/
- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOPPKG7XLZk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
- OpenAI's '$110b' funding round is $25b and some promises https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/03/openais-110b-funding-round-is-25b-and-some-promises/
- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXdofxSKtDg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
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