Buy alert: Rezolve AI (RZLV) has increased its job postings by 1,250%, and institutions just bought $250 million of new stock at $4.00/share… while the market price is $2.60. What do they know that the market doesn’t?

Meanwhile, the AI industry is extra dystopian this week: Anthropic's senior AI safety leader resigned, stating that "the world is in peril.” Does he think they’ve created a monster?

More concerning: Anthropic’s newest model (Opus 4.6) made a mess of its safety testing in a number of concerning ways, which include helping create chemical weapons of destruction and performing sneaky sabotage.

We don’t love any of that.

But good news: the new jobs report blew expectations out of the water by 160%, and unemployment came in at 4.3% instead of the expected 4.4%.

Today:

Let's get into it.

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Markets are up this morning in response to a massive jobs report:

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Anthropic’s senior AI safety leader has stepped down, sharing a very intriguing post where he stated that “the world is in peril” because of a “poly-crisis” (see footnotes in his letter). The next day, Anthropic released a risk report for its newest model, Opus 4.6, and there were some disturbing notes. In testing, Opus:

→ Concerning, all as the company barrels toward a 2026 IPO. We’ll keep you updated on any new developments.

Two of xAI’s co-founders left the company, meaning that six of the twelve founding members are now gone. The timing is worrisome, as SpaceX, which now owns xAI, eyes a public listing in June. Once the company is public, any technical and performance-related issues will become extremely obvious.

January’s jobs report was much better than expected, coming in at 130,000 new non-farm payroll jobs as opposed to the expected 50,000 jobs. That’s a 160% higher outcome than experts predicted! What’s strange is that the White House even cautioned that the jobs numbers might be a bit lower than expected. Markets are loving it, with all three major indices up 0.4-0.5% at the time of writing.

December retail sales came in flat, a big miss versus the 0.4% growth economists expected. The flatline signals consumer spending hit the brakes through the holiday season after November's 0.6% jump. Eight of 13 spending categories contracted.

Two Fed voting members made it clear: rates aren't moving anytime soon. Cleveland's Beth Hammack said policy could stay on hold "for quite some time," citing sticky inflation near 3%. Dallas Fed's Lorie Logan echoed those concerns, saying she's "more worried about inflation remaining stubbornly high" than job losses.

Wealth management stocks tanked after AI startup Altruist unveiled a tool that lets advisers auto-generate personalized tax strategies. Charles Schwab, Raymond James, and LPL Financial all sold off more than 6% on fears the industry could face the same AI disruption that's been hammering software stocks.

Cisco threw its hat into the AI chip ring, launching its Silicon One G300 switch chip to compete with Broadcom and Nvidia in the $600 billion AI infrastructure market. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, the chip promises to speed up AI jobs by 28% by automatically rerouting data around network bottlenecks.

Robinhood tumbled 7% after hours following a revenue miss. Fourth-quarter revenue hit a record $1.28 billion, but fell short of the $1.35 billion Wall Street wanted. Crypto revenue came in at $221 million, well below the $248 million expected.

Coca-Cola sank nearly 2% after issuing a "prudent" 2026 outlook. Organic sales are forecast to grow just 4%-5%, below the 5% analysts expected. CEO James Quincey pointed to pressure in China, India, and Mexico, where a new soft drink tax just kicked in.

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