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Reuters 2026-04-23-1

Meta to Capture Employee Keystrokes and Screen Snapshots for AI Agent Training

Meta just made the harvest-then-replace cycle an explicit corporate program: install tracking software, capture employee keystrokes and screen snapshots, feed an Applied AI team building the agents that will handle the work, then lay off 10% in May. The surveillance framing will dominate headlines; the investment signal is quieter and bigger. Every F500 employer with more than 10,000 knowledge workers now holds a latent AI training asset on its balance sheet, and the first to build the governance layer around it will define the next decade of enterprise software economics.

Bloomberg 2026-04-07-3

What Is ARR? Behind the Least-Trusted Metric of the AI Era

ARR has no SEC definition, no audit standard, and no standardized calculation: the metric Silicon Valley uses to price AI startups is whatever the founder needs it to mean. The real problem is structural, not behavioral: consumption-based, credits-based, and outcome-based AI pricing models don't map to the subscription framework ARR was built for. Every 25-30x multiple applied to unverified AI ARR is a bet on retention data that doesn't exist yet.