Meta's aggressive AI restructuring in 2026 has triggered employee backlash, including forced reassignments, keystroke surveillance, and 8,000 layoffs, while internal metrics show a 220% increase in co…
Meta Platforms Inc. reassigned approximately 6,500 to 7,000 engineers to its Applied AI unit in spring 2026, triggering a drop in employee favorability from 74% to 55%, and later cut about 8,000 jobs …
Meta paused its Model Capability Initiative AI training program after a data leak exposed sensitive employee data company-wide. The program, which tracked keystrokes and mouse movements without opt-ou…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed that a researcher moved sensitive employee keystroke and mouse-tracking data to an unauthorized internal location, forcing the company to pause its Model Capability I…
Meta paused its employee computer tracking program after sensitive data, including AI prompts, performance data, and private conversations, was leaked internally. The program, intended to train AI mod…
Meta paused its program tracking employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training after an internal leak exposed private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions across the company. …
Meta paused its Model Capability Initiative, an AI training program that tracked employee keystrokes and mouse movements, after sensitive data including private conversations and performance data was …
Meta left sensitive employee data, including keystrokes and screen content, exposed internally due to misconfigured access controls in its controversial employee-tracking program for AI training. The …
Meta employees in at least five US offices posted flyers on May 12 to protest the company's Model Capability Initiative, which collects employee computer use data to train AI models, with over 1,600 w…
Meta has scaled back its employee keystroke and mouse-click tracking program after worker backlash, now allowing staff to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes or request full exemptions. The ret…
Meta is scaling back its plan to track employee computer activity after internal backlash, allowing workers to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes at a time or request exemptions. The tracking …
Meta will allow employees to pause its AI training tracking program for up to 30 minutes to handle personal matters, according to a company memo reported by The Information. The concession follows emp…
Meta is collecting email contents, browsing history, and clipboard data from its U.S. employees to train AI agents capable of automating human workflows, according to internal company materials review…
Meta has begun tracking its employees' mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots through a new tool called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), with no opt-out option, to train proprietar…