JOB LAYOFFS Surge AS BIG Companies REPLACE EMPLOYEES With AI...

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[00:00:00]Every CEO on Wall Street is about to say the same four words, and every one of them will be performing the legally defensible version of the truth. By the end of this video, you're going to understand exactly why Intuitit lost $21 billion in a single session despite beating earnings. What the market actually read inside that report that the headline number was specifically designed to obscure and what this one company's meltdown reveals about the most dangerous blind spot in the entire US labor market at this moment. Now, let me set the scene into it reported fiscal third quarter earnings earlier this week. Adjusted earnings per share came in at 12.8. 8, beating the Wall Street consensus estimate of 1257. Revenue was up 8.56 billion, up 10% year-over-year.

[00:00:46]Fullyear guidance was raised to between 21.34 billion and 21.37 billion. That is a 13 to 14% growth for the fiscal year. Guys, on paper, every box checked. Management had every right to pop a bottle at that very moment.

[00:01:05]Instead, they filed the paperwork to hand 3,000 people their walking papers.

[00:01:11]That is 17% of the company's entire global workforce, completely gone. The restructuring tab runs between 300 million and 340 million landing in the fourth quarter. And on the same day, CEO Cassan Gdarzi sent the internal memo to his staff. He named Anthropic and OpenAI as the company's new strategic partners.

[00:01:35]multi-year deals, guys. AI models embedded across the Turboax, Quickbook, QuickBooks, and Credit Karma offerings.

[00:01:43]Then he went on CNBC and told the anchor with a straight face that none of it had none of the layoffs had anything to do with AI. Well, that's the act one surface read. And here is why the market threw it in the trash. If you like this type of content, guys, please click like and consider subscribing. It's important to be the know about this kind of stuff and we'll hope you do it with us every day. Now, let's talk about what was actually in that report because the headline revenue number and the headline guidance rays were doing a lot of heavy lifting to completely obscure one very specific detail. Turbo Tax, the flagship product, the brand that Inuit built its entire identity around for decades, had its fullear revenue growth guidance trimmed down to roughly 7% growth for the year. That is a downward revision to the most important line in the entire business, buried inside an otherwise clean headline number. And the market found it in about well, I'd say 30 seconds. Here's the deeper structural truth. into it sits on pabytes of the most valuable financial data in the country. Decades of tax returns, small business bookkeeping records, credit profiles. It's not a software company that stumbled into AI, guys. It is an AI company that has been training on your financial life for years and is only now getting around to admitting that. Now, that data advantage is exactly why the Open AI and enthropic partnerships are so interesting and so threatening at the same time. When a CEO announces a massive AI partnership on the same day he fires 70% of his workforce and then walks into a camera and says the two things are unrelated, he's not lying exactly. He's doing something more elegant. He is performing the legally defensible version of the how should we call it truth. Because what he can't say, what no CEO in his position can say is that the humans being shown the door are being shown the door precisely because the machines are moving in. You don't pay $300 million in restructuring charges and sign multi-year contracts with the two of the most powerful AI companies on earth because you are reorganizing a few middle management layers. You do it because you've looked at your cost structure and made a decision about which part of it have a future. Let me give you the shadow data.

[00:04:14]You know, I love the shadow data. That's the number that nobody in the mainstream coverage is leading with. The disruption from this shift is fractal. Intuitit is not just licensing models. It's embedding its proprietary financial intelligence into claude and chatbt.

[00:04:30]Which means that the same tools coming for its workforce are also coming for the accountants, the tax preparers and the bookkeepers who built their entire professional identities around services that into its products helped commoditize in the first place. This is like commoditization on steroids, guys.

[00:04:50]Layer one disrupts the workers inside Intuitit, but layer two that disrupts the professionals who depend on Intuit's products as their competitive mode.

[00:05:00]That's the fractal and it's already in motion, guys. Now, let's zoom out a little bit because Intuitit is not only not the only one in the water right now.

[00:05:11]Block cut 4,000 jobs in February. If you remember, Meta cut 8,000 workers the same week in it made its announcement.

[00:05:18]Oracle eliminated 30,000 positions after a record revenue quarter. More than 179 technology companies, guys, have now cut a combined 113,000 jobs so far in 2026.

[00:05:31]And in an increasing share of those announcements, guys, the companies are no longer hiding behind vague language about efficiency. They are naming the machine. AI cited as a contributing factor in layoff announcements has gone from less than 8% in 25 to more than 20% in the first quarter of 2026 alone. The acceleration isn't subtle, guys. And here's the part that should keep you up at night. The unemployment rate sits at 4.3%. Monthly payrolls continue to print positive. On the surface, the labor market looks pretty resilient. Beneath the surface, what economists have started describing is a freeze. Low hiring, low firing, suppressed quit rates. Companies are not laying off workers in ways that show up in these filings. They're simply not replacing the ones who leave, letting the headcount drift downward through attrition, quietly signing the AI contracts that will eventually make the question of replacement moot. The disruption doesn't arrive as a collapse, guys. It arrives as a slow exhale. The Fed is watching this and doing the monetary policy equivalent of looking at the stars through a periscope. Rate cuts are the playbook for cyclical unemployment, guys. The kind caused by demand shocks that reverse when credit gets loosened by the Fed. They're not the playbook for structural displacement. structural displacement.

[00:06:58]Remember that for an entire category of labor that doesn't bounce back because the technology that replaced it doesn't go away when the Fed funds rate moves 25 basis points. The Fed can't refinance a displaced tax prepareer back into relevance. Guys, the market understood all of this in this session with intuitive. Shares finished down over 20% in the session after the announcement, erasing roughly $21 billion in market cap in a single day. The stock has now lost more than half its value in 2026, sitting 62% below its all-time high, reached just last summer. Investors who took the earnings beat at face value woke up the next morning to discover the market was reading a completely different document. The one that said the moat is narrowing. Rose and Jack from the Titanic did not know what was coming when they danced around the deck on that dark night. They were in the moment. They were feeling unsinkable.

[00:07:58]But the cold, dark water was already rising in the lower decks of the Titanic. The headline labor market data looks just like that. And just like the Titanic, the danger is not on the surface, guys. It is in what lurks beneath. So your truth bomb for today is this. into it didn't get punished for a bad quarter. It got punished because the market read the real document. And the real document says the mode is narrowing. The machines are moving in and the labor market's 4.3% unemployment rate is a headline number that hasn't met the structural shift that is already rewriting it. Guys, join me every day for Wall Street Truth Bombs, where I drop them right here before the market figures them