NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has proposed incorporating AI tokens into engineers' compensation packages, highlighting their growing importance in Silicon Valley hiring negotiations. During his GTC 2026 keynote, Huang emphasized that token allocations could significantly boost engineer productivity. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions a future "Universal Basic Compute" model, where citizens receive a quota of GPT-7 computing power for personal use or sale. Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella cautioned that without clear efficiency gains in sectors like healthcare and education, the energy demands of AI data centers could become unsustainable.