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Meta is training AI systems to replace employee tasks by monitoring what those employees actually do at work. The company is collecting detailed behavioral data from staff as they go about their daily routines, essentially using workers to teach the systems designed to automate them out of a job. It raises serious questions about consent, transparency, and what exactly employees signed up for.
On the energy front, renewables have officially overtaken coal as the world's leading source of electricity generation. Solar growth in particular hit levels analysts describe as the largest ever observed for any single energy source. It marks a genuine structural shift, not just a milestone on a chart, suggesting the economics of clean power have reached a tipping point that policy alone did not create.
And in the semiconductor world, Elon Musk has revealed new details about TeraFab, his ambitious chip manufacturing venture. The plan involves Intel licensing its fourteen A process technology, Tesla building a pilot production line, and SpaceX taking on high-volume fabrication. It is an unusual three-company arrangement, and whether it holds together in practice remains very much an open question.
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