Earnings360 Newsletter for 1/14/2026

The radio took 38 years to reach 50 million users, television took 13 years, the internet took four, and ChatGPT hit 100 million users in two months. America is entering a New 1776 Moment, a convergence of economic, technological, and political forces we haven't seen in 250 years, but this time we're compressing the same level of displacement that took half a century during the Industrial Revolution into just a few years. Layoffs have hit recessionary levels with 1.21 million job cuts last year at companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Intel, and UPS—white-collar jobs, the bedrock of the American middle class, being gutted in real-time. McKinsey says AI can already perform tasks that occupy 44% of U.S. work hours, and as Elon Musk put it, we have entered the Singularity, with a Nobel Prize winner saying this will be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution and maybe 10 times faster.