Pope Leo XIV issued a categorical condemnation of Iran's Islamist regime engaging in the widespread massacre of protesters on Thursday, urging the parties involved in the conflict in that country to seek peace, but stating "obviously" he hoped for an end to the execution of dissidents.
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A new report claims that internal memos at Meta say the company will be harvesting data from employees to train artificial intelligence.
The training software Meta plans on using will go directly onto employees' computers and will track what the employees are doing at work.
'Agents primarily do the work and our role is to direct.'
The new directive will track U.S.-based employees' activities on their computers, Meta reportedly told staffers, capturing mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes. In turn, this data will train Meta's AI models so that the automated agents can perform work tasks autonomously, Reuters reported.
In a statement to Return, a Meta spokesman said that if the company is "building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them."
This includes not only the aforementioned mouse movements and clicks, but also "navigating dropdown menus," for example.
The recent report stated that Meta will use a Model Capability Initiative that runs on work-related apps or websites and takes snapshots of what appears on the employees' screens.
Meta described the initiative as launching an internal tool that will capture the mouse clicks and movements "on certain applications to help us train our models."
At the same time, the spokesman said employee data would remain safe.
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"There are safeguards in place to protect sensitive content, and the data is not used for any other purpose," the spokesman asserted in his statement.
The data is only collected for "model training purposes" and will "not be used in performance reviews, and managers cannot access it," the statement concluded.
Meta was asked to clarify what "everyday tasks" they were looking to have their AI agents perform and if this amounted to tasks that would otherwise be performed by a human, but the company did not provide an answer to those questions.
While the internal memos have not been published, Reuters claimed to have reviewed multiple, including one that was posted internally to the Meta SuperIntelligence Labs team.
"This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work," it allegedly said.
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Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, allegedly shared a different memo this week that told employees internal data collection would increase at the company, as roles transform into directing AI agents to do work.
"The vision we are building towards is one where our agents primarily do the work and our role is to direct, review, and help them improve," Bosworth reportedly stated.
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The wide distance between movie critics and Normal People was again on display with the early success of Michael, director Antoine Fuqua’s jukebox biopic about the late King of Pop.
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There have been dozens of these killings by the IDF of senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders, Basij leaders, nuclear scientists, heads of the air force, ballistic missile scientists, government spokesmen, and many others. A long list, that recently got longer by one, with the announcement by Israel that it had killed the IRGC naval commander, Alireza Tangsiri, who among other duties had organized the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Tangsiri was a very big fish. Now he sleeps with the fishes.
Paige Shiver, the former mistress of former Michigan Wolverines head coach Sherrone Moore, says she became pregnant during her affair with the married coach.
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Retired Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino has added his voice to the list of those left seething after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said no one respects Border Patrol and ICE in this country during a late-night debate on a Department of Homeland Security funding package. Bovino told Breitbart Texas the comment epitomizes what the Democrat party stands for.
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The U.S-Iran conflict is unpopular at home with 58% of American adults signaling opposition in a recent Economist/YouGov poll, and surveys conducted both prior and immediately after the initial U.S.-Israeli strikes in late February revealed a general aversion to getting dragged into another foreign entanglement.
While the military intervention is unpopular in the U.S., the opposition to it is significantly greater in Europe, particularly in Spain, where such opposition has proven politically expedient for the ruling Socialist Party.
'No worries.'
In addition to criticizing the conflict, leftist Spanish officials have in recent months publicly underscored their unwillingness to materially assist the U.S., going so far as to refuse the U.S. to use the jointly run bases at Morón and Rota to strike Iran.
A U.S. official claimed to Reuters that, in an internal email, the Pentagon has floated the idea of pushing Spain out of NATO and punishing allies that failed to toe the line on the Iran conflict.
The email reportedly expresses annoyances over certain allies' reluctance or outright refusal to permit the U.S. access, basing, and overflight rights for the Iran conflict, which the official said were altogether described as "the absolute baseline for NATO."
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The email identifies a number of sanctions for such noncooperation that might serve to "decreas[e] the sense of entitlement on the part of the Europeans," including suspending "difficult" countries from important positions at NATO, the official claimed.
While base closures in Europe were not among the proposed responses, ousting Spain from the alliance — a move the email said would be symbolic but have a limited impact on U.S military operations — is on the table, the official added. It's unclear how such an ouster would be accomplished given NATO's founding treaty does not contain a formal mechanism to eject a member.
The email reportedly also raises the possibility of rethinking U.S. diplomatic support for European "imperial possessions" such as Britain's Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina.
When asked about the email, Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told Reuters, "As President Trump has said, despite everything that the United States has done for our NATO allies, they were not there for us."
"The War Department will ensure that the President has credible options to ensure that our allies are no longer a paper tiger and instead do their part," said Wilson. "We have no further comment on any internal deliberations to that effect."
President Donald Trump said in a March interview with the New York Post that Spain "is a loser" and "very hostile to NATO."
"Not a team player, and we’re not going to be a team player with Spain either," added Trump, suggesting elsewhere that the U.S. could just co-opt the Spanish bases and slap Madrid with a trade embargo.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose country's defense spending has chronically fallen short of NATO targets, brushed off the email, telling Politico, "No worries."
"We are fulfilling our obligations toward NATO," said Sánchez.
"The Spanish government's position is clear: absolute cooperation with our allies, but always within the framework of international law," added the socialist prime minister.
Following the report about the Pentagon memo, a spokesman for the German government suggested that Spain's membership was safe, reported the BBC.
"Spain is a member of NATO. And I see no reason why that should change," said the German spokesman.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told NATO members on Friday to stick together, noting the alliance is a "source of strength."
"We must work to strengthen NATO's European pillar ... which must clearly complement the American one," added Meloni, who was recently criticized by Trump over her defense of Pope Leo XIV.
The Department of War did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
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