The old playbook is dead.

For decades, the path to financial security was simple: work hard, save diligently, park your money in bonds or a high-yield savings account, and let compound interest do the rest.

But inflation and dollar debasement have turned "safe" assets into wealth incinerators. A 4.5% savings account kills wealth in this environment.

The game has changed. AI is rewriting the rules entirely; Anthropic’s CEO himself said AI could replace 50% of all white-collar jobs in just 5 years.

An AI company called Algorhythm Holdings, self-titled "the world's most well-orchestrated transportation platform," just triggered a 20% collapse in trucking and logistics stocks in a single session. This comes after Anthropic’s legal AI tools that tanked legal software stocks and the release of GPT Codex 5.3 and Claude Opus 4.6 as two of the most powerful coding models ever created.

Here’s the deal: If you believe AI might replace your job, or your children's future career, one of the only ways to actually build wealth is to own the companies doing the replacing. Their future gains will come at the expense of everyone who stayed on the sidelines.

You can either participate in the wealth creation, or watch it pass you by.

In today's news:

Let’s dig in.

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Markets tumbled Thursday as AI disruption fears spread beyond software into trucking, logistics, and commercial real estate.

Trucking and logistics stocks got crushed after the release of advanced AI tools by Algorhythm Holdings, whose stock (RIME), whose stock is up 44% at the moment. C.H. Robinson plummeted 16%, RXO cratered 20%, and J.B. Hunt fell hard as investors questioned how automation could reshape freight brokerage margins.

Commercial real estate services took a beating on fears that AI could slash office demand. CBRE collapsed as much as 15%, extending its two-day decline to 26%, the worst since 2008. Jones Lang LaSalle dropped 14%, Cushman & Wakefield fell 13%, and Newmark sank 11%.

Apple was the worst Mag 7 performer, sliding 5% amid the tech selloff and reports that its Siri upgrade could face more delays. Meta, Amazon, and Tesla all fell by over 2%. NVIDIA and Microsoft both shed more than 1%. Only Alphabet managed to stay green, up 0.4%.

Bitcoin slid to around $65,000, extending its 2026 losses to 22%. Standard Chartered slashed its year-end target from $150K to $100K, warning BTC could dip below $50K before recovering. Deutsche Bank said bitcoin is "no longer acting as digital gold," pointing to billions in ETF outflows.

Anthropic closed a monster $30 billion funding round at a $380 billion valuation, the second-largest private tech raise ever, behind only OpenAI's $40 billion haul. The Claude maker's annualized revenue hit $14 billion, with its coding tool Claude Code generating $2.5 billion alone. Microsoft and Nvidia participated.

Robinhood shares dropped 9% after missing revenue expectations, particularly in crypto. CFO Shiv Verma defended the company's "financial super app" ambitions, noting crypto is only 18% of revenue despite all the attention. Some analysts see the dip as a buying opportunity, pointing to solid EPS beats and record funded accounts.

BofA economists said Wednesday's surprise jobs report killed any chance of rate cuts under Powell. The path to cuts under a Warsh-led Fed also looks narrower. The bank called January payrolls "a feast for the hawks."

Mortgage rates dipped to 6.09%, hovering near three-year lows. The 15-year fixed fell to 5.44%. Freddie Mac noted housing affordability is "measurably improving" despite Wednesday's hot jobs data.

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