Privacy

Meta has started installing tracking software on the work laptops of its US-based employees. It captures keystrokes, mouse movements, clicks, and occasional screenshots. The captured activity is fed back into training data for AI agents. There is no opt-out. The program was disclosed to staff in an internal memo in April 2026, and the response from inside the company has been about what you would expect. The program is called the Model Capability Initiative, and it sits under a broader effort branded as the Agent Transformation Accelerator within Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, the AI group now led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. ...

By early 2026, the “Local vs. Cloud” debate has moved past the experimental phase. We are no longer just “trying to see if Llama runs on a Mac.” Instead, professional engineers are building sophisticated Hybrid AI Stacks where local and cloud models work in tandem. The landscape has shifted because the hardware caught up to the software. With the prevalence of unified memory on Apple Silicon and the accessibility of 24GB+ VRAM cards like the RTX 50-series, the “local” ceiling has been smashed. ...