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Mark Zuckerberg is defending employee monitoring at Meta, and the reasoning is as blunt as you might expect. In purportedly leaked audio, the CEO told staff that winning the AI race justifies keeping close tabs on how people work — a six-minute answer that raises real questions about where competitive pressure ends and workplace trust begins.
That story connects to a broader pattern of AI being pushed into uncomfortable territory. A Russian-speaking threat actor used a jailbroken version of Google's Gemini to impersonate an American veteran, run a fraudulent Telegram channel, steal credentials, and drain crypto wallets from conspiracy-minded targets. The campaign ran for roughly eight months, and it required surprisingly little technical skill — which tells you something about how accessible these tools have become for bad actors.
On a quieter but genuinely useful note, a developer has published Models dot dev, an open-source database cataloguing AI model specifications, pricing, and capabilities across the landscape. With dozens of competing models now in circulation, having a neutral, community-maintained reference point is exactly the kind of unglamorous infrastructure the industry actually needs.
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