‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

GitClear, another company in this space, published a report in January that found AI tools increased productivity, but also ...

What Is Tokenmaxxing? Inside the New Productivity Hack That CEOs Adore and CFOs Fear

Engineers are racing to burn AI tokens to prove their productivity. Inside the tokenmaxxing trend at Meta that has CEOs ...
Reuters

Crypto for a home? Coinbase brings token-backed down payments to housing market

A prospective homeowner will be able to secure ‌a loan against the bitcoin or USDC in their Coinbase account to cover the down payment, the companies said on Thursday. The loan will be separate from ...
Gizmodo

Tech Employees Are Reportedly Being Evaluated by How Fast They Burn Through LLM Tokens

According to a column by the New York Times’ Kevin Roose, employees at companies including Meta and OpenAI compete on “internal leaderboards that show how many tokens[…]each worker consumes.” At Meta ...
Forbes

How Token Economics Could Define Success With AI

Anand “Andy” Logani is executive vice president and chief digital and AI officer at EXL, a global data and AI company. As enterprise AI deployments scale from pilot to production, CXOs are discovering ...
Business Insider

Jensen Huang floated AI tokens as part of engineers' compensation. Sam Altman says they could one day be a form of universal basic income.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said companies need to be bestowing huge AI token budgets on their engineers. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has an even grander plan for these basic components of large language models ...
Business Insider

Jensen Huang floats giving engineers tokens worth half their annual salary on top of pay as a recruiting strategy

Nvidia's Jensen Huang becomes one of the first CEOs to float tokens as a recruitment strategy. Huang said engineers will soon be asking "how many tokens comes along with my job?" Nvidia engineers ...
Computerworld

Nvidia CEO Huang talks up ‘tokenomics’ — the new currency for AI

Tokens are rapidly becoming the coin of the realm for a tech industry rushing to embrace AI tools and services, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at GTC. AI tokens are emerging as a kind of currency that ...
Psychology Today

What If API Tokens Became a Universal Monetary Standard?

In Greek mythology, the Horae—Eunomia, Dike, and Eirene—were keepers of heaven's gates and guardians of the seasons' rhythm. Good Order, Justice, and Peace: daughters of Zeus and Themis, encoding the ...
Inc

Crypto Scam? Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams Just Launched a Token That Immediately Lost Most of Its Value

When Eric Adams took office as New York City’s mayor in January 2022, he asked that his first paycheck be converted into cryptocurrency—an early show of faith in the alternative ecosystem of ...
CoinDesk

Lighter DEX launches LIT token with 25% airdrop

Perpetuals-focused Ethereum-based Layer 2 decentralized exchange (DEX) Lighter has announced the debut of its native cryptocurrency, the Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT), to align traders, builders, ...