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Nvidia, Uber Report AI Token Costs Outpace Salaries

4/28/2026

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  • U.S. firms Nvidia and Uber say AI token expenses now surpass the cost of human employees.
  • Nvidia’s Bryan Catanzaro noted compute costs exceed salaries, prompting CEO Jensen Huang to propose AI tokens worth half engineers’ base pay.
  • Software engineer Max Linder in Stockholm says he likely spends more on Anthropic’s Claude than his salary.
  • Uber engineers using Claude Code exhausted the company’s entire 2026 AI budget.