一封新年信标记了第12次年度致信，主张过去12个月通过“技术海啸”和“地缘政治地震”体现了加速变化，并将商业描绘为高点与低点的周期性起伏。

AI采用以数字量化：公司超过了面向聊天机器人Dustin的“1000万条消息”目标，据称其中一半以上是测试消息（“这算数吗？”），并为2026年设定了1亿条消息的挑战性目标——相当于相对先前目标约10倍的跃升。

人员与领导层事件以计数与时间呈现——在凌晨4点向数百人发送自动化裁员短信、一次拉斯维加斯团建让两位高管戴上颈托——同时提出2026年在每个办公室安装国旗并至少配备一个大型风扇、并从下周一早晨起要求员工合唱所在国国歌。

A New Year letter marks the 12th annual note, arguing the last 12 months showed accelerating change via “technological tsunamis” and “geopolitical earthquakes,” and framing business as cyclical highs and lows.

AI adoption is quantified: the firm surpassed its “Ten Million Messages” target for chatbot Dustin, with over half reportedly test messages (“Does this count?”), and sets a 2026 stretch goal of 100 million messages—an implied ~10× jump versus the prior target.

Workforce and leadership episodes are described with counts and timing—automated layoff texts sent at 4 a.m. to hundreds, a Las Vegas retreat that left two executives in neck braces—alongside a 2026 plan to install national flags and at least one large fan in every office and require anthem singing starting next Monday morning.

Source: A new-year message from the CEO

Subtitle: Stew Pidd rallies the troops

Dateline: 12月 31, 2025 01:03 下午