The year is off to an interesting start. In January 2026, five very significant people said pretty much the same thing. And that matters.
First, who they are: Elon Musk. Jensen Huang (Nvidia). Sam Altman. Mark Zuckerberg. Dario Amodei (Anthropic).
This wasn’t a joint statement. Not a podcast. Not a panel. So it doesn’t look like they got together just to mess with us.
Each of them said, more or less, one thing: the timeline has collapsed. The future has already happened. (Or it’ll happen tomorrow, 12:30 sharp.)
When one CEO says “the world is about to change” — that’s marketing. (Remember Zuckerberg and his metaverse, the thing he renamed the whole company for, four-plus years ago.) When five CEOs — who compete with each other, by the way — all say the same thing, that’s data worth taking seriously.
By our schedule, the future was supposed to arrive by 2030. Instead it’s going to land on an ordinary Tuesday in 2026.
Why am I telling you this? Some people feel like they can’t keep track of it all. Do you feel the FOMO sometimes? I live in it. And then there’s this OpenClaw… because of it I’ve completely lost my peace and my sleep. Last night (this morning?) I was building new features for PRO and Linked Coffee until 5 a.m. Okay — that’s a topic for another post.
Anyway. If you’re feeling a little anxious about the future, here’s a calming pill. Altman just admitted he could be using AI far more than he actually does. “I use AI less than I could myself.” Well, if Altman says so, then I’ve got nothing to worry about.