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| Mon, April 27 at 6:00 AM |
| Meta is spying on its own employees 👀 |
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Meta just rolled out a tool called the Model Capability Initiative that installs directly on US staff computers and records mouse movements, keystrokes, and screen activity. All of it gets funneled into training Meta's AI agents to do white collar work autonomously.
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Not well. Internal messages leaked to CNBC show workers calling it "dystopian," with concerns about sensitive data exposure covering everything from passwords to immigration status. The tracked apps include Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, GitHub, Slack, and Atlassian.
Would you let your employer record your keystrokes to train an AI?
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Meta is gearing up to cut 10% of its workforce starting in May while simultaneously asking the other 90% to train their digital replacements. The memo tells concerned employees they can always just "not do personal work on your work computer." Cool, very reassuring.
Meta says the data won't be used in performance reviews. We'll see how long that holds.
Deloitte: Robot “Adoption is Accelerating Exponentially”
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| Google just turned Cloud Next into an agent arms race ☁️ |
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Google unveiled the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, pitched as an end-to-end system for building, governing, and orchestrating AI agents at scale. Think of it as the operating system layer for the agent era, with a dedicated Agent Inbox where your bots post progress updates like coworkers.
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Yes, and arguably the bigger deal. Google announced its 8th generation TPUs with a dual chip approach (TPU 8t for training, TPU 8i for inference) scaling up to 9,600 chips in a single superpod.
Sundar Pichai also dropped the stat that 75% of all new code at Google is now AI-generated and approved by engineers, up from 50% last fall. With all of these AI announcements, it’s pretty clear: we’re entering a new phase of the AI revolution.
| weekly scoop 🍦 |
| 🗣️ weekly challenge: build your personal AI operating manual |
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Build a permanent "operating manual" for yourself your AI can reference in every chat to give advice that actually fits your life.
Here's what to do:
🔍 Step 1: Run the interview Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini: "Interview me for 20 minutes to build my personal operating manual. One question at a time about my values, decisions, energy patterns, and stress."
🧩 Step 2: Dump the real data Add raw material: recent calendar events, journal entries, Slack messages, books you've loved. The more unfiltered, the less generic.
📄 Step 3: Generate the manual Ask: "Write my operating manual. Include how I actually make decisions, my top energy drains, where I self-sabotage, and three blind spots."
⚙️ Step 4: Lock it in Save as a Custom GPT, Claude Project, or Gemini system prompt. Every future chat now starts with an AI that knows you.
🎯 Step 5: Test it Bring a decision you've been stuck on and watch the advice stop sounding like a generic life coach.
Will Meta employees quietly poison the training data, or just quit? And between GPT-5.5 and DeepSeek V4 landing in the same 48 hours, which model are you switching to?
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