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Meta is facing fresh scrutiny tonight after it was revealed the company exposed employee data internally from a controversial worker-tracking program. The initiative collects keystroke data from staff — ostensibly to train AI models — and employees had already raised concerns before this latest breach of internal trust came to light.
Shifting now to the server room, Arm-based processors have quietly staged a remarkable takeover of the data center market, now commanding over forty-five percent of server revenue according to IDC. X86 chips from Intel and AMD still hold a slim majority at fifty-two percent, but the momentum is clearly running in one direction, driven largely by GPU clusters and AI infrastructure buildout.
And in financial technology, Benchmark analysts are pushing back against comparisons between Bitcoin strategy firm Strategy and the collapsed Terra Luna project. The key distinction, they argue, is that Strategy's Stretch instrument cannot technically lose its peg the way an algorithmic stablecoin can — a meaningful difference, even if skeptics remain unconvinced.
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