Yang says AI will kick millions of white-collar workers to the curb in 12-18 months. He's being generous. The layoffs aren't coming — they're already here, moving in slow motion under names like 'efficiency gains' and 'not backfilling.'
Wall Street just discovered what builders already knew — AI doesn't create value for incumbents. It destroys their moats. The February 2026 selloff isn't about technology failing. It's about the market finally pricing in a world where most existing business models become obsolete.
The same newsrooms publishing fear-driven AI stories are using AI to write headlines, generate summaries, and automate their workflows. The hypocrisy isn't accidental. It's the business model.
Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI. Wall Street holds two contradictory fears. 341 malicious AI agent skills found. Tesla puts Grok in European cars. What the signals are saying.
Every sixty years, the world catches fire. A specific convergence of forces ignites a transformation so intense that the world that emerges barely resembles the one that entered it. Four cycles. Two hundred and forty years of evidence. The pattern is starting again.
Every 60 years, a specific convergence of forces creates an acceleration window. 2026 is that window. Here is what the patterns reveal — and why timing is the strategy most people overlook.