Future-of-Work

Sam Altman predicted it. He said AI would enable “one-person billion-dollar companies.” For most of 2024, that was a provocative thought experiment. In April 2026, it’s a Forbes article with case studies. The Three Companies Forbes Profiles Medvi is the headline data point. A telehealth company valued at $1.8 billion. Built in 14 months. Staff at time of valuation: 2 people. Total startup capital: $20,000. That last number deserves a full stop. Twenty thousand dollars. The kind of money that, five years ago, wouldn’t have lasted six months in a San Francisco office before running out on rent and coffee. ...

At GTC 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made a proposal that’s already circulating widely in enterprise AI circles: give engineers an AI token budget worth nearly half their base salary — a dedicated pool of compute credits to fund their personal fleet of AI agents. It’s a provocative idea, and it signals something important about where NVIDIA thinks enterprise AI is headed. The Token Budget Concept The premise is straightforward: just as companies provide employees with compute resources, travel budgets, or software licenses, Huang argues that a token allocation — the currency of LLM inference — should become a standard line item in employee compensation and resource planning. ...

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott didn’t mince words on CNBC last week. Asked about the impact of AI agents on the workforce, he said graduate unemployment “could easily go into the mid-30s in the next couple of years.” That’s a striking statement from the head of a $200 billion enterprise software company that sells AI-powered automation to the same enterprises that hire those graduates. It’s also, increasingly, not a fringe view. ...