Last week, Jensen Huang stood on stage at NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 and said something that should have stopped every CEO in America mid-sip on their morning coffee. He said engineers at NVIDIA will soon receive half their compensation in AI tokens. Not stock options. Not bonuses. Tokens…the fuel that powers AI systems. He’s literally paying
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Over the last year, everyone’s been talking about “sovereign AI” at the national level. Governments in the U.S., China, India, Europe, and beyond are racing to build their own AI infrastructure, trained on their own data, running under their own rules. That’s the geopolitical game. What most business leaders haven’t fully clocked yet is this…
AI is no longer a side project—it’s quickly becoming part of the basic infrastructure of doing business, and that shift is moving from the top of the global economy down to everyone else. If you run a small or mid-sized company, AI-enabled and AI-ready are not optional labels anymore…they’re becoming baseline expectations for staying competitive.
Step into any boardroom today and the air is thick with bold talk about artificial intelligence. Hundreds of executives invoke AI’s promise in earnings calls, investor meetings, and strategic planning sessions. The technology, they say, will supercharge productivity, streamline costs, and unlock new growth. But look closer, and a more complicated story emerges: Most leaders