Meta Surveils Employees to Train its AI & What Happens When You Give Cocaine to Salmon?

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Episode 830: Neal and Toby chat about Meta’s plans to track employee mouse movements and keystrokes to help train its AI models. Next, Anthropic’s all new powerful Mythos model has some unwelcomed users. Then, a new Looney Tunes film just dropped a trailer, even though it was nearly scrapped in 2023. Plus, it’s Neal’s Numbers on gas prices in the US, college weather, and cocaine salmon. Finally, Spirit Airlines may be resurrected. Learn more at https://www.schwab.com/oninvesting Visit https://www.iherb.com Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.8	Good morning, Brue Daily show. I'm Neil Fryman.
0:27.8	And I'm Toby Howell.
0:28.7	Today, why are gas prices so much lower in the U.S. than everywhere else?
0:32.7	Then Meta is surveilling its employees to train its AI models.
0:37.0	It's Thursday, April 23rd.
0:39.3	Let's ride.
0:44.3	Good morning.
0:45.3	Well, you all came through.
0:47.3	Excited to announce that Morning Brew Daily won the Webby for Best Business Podcasts,
0:52.3	People's Voice winner.
0:57.6	Appreciate everyone who voted for us, who got their friends and family to vote.
0:59.6	It all made a huge difference.
1:01.7	Toby, what should we say in the acceptance speech?
1:04.6	So the Webby's does acceptance speeches a little bit differently. They only give you five words, which maybe the Oscars should think about, but also got us
1:10.3	thinking, what should we say?
1:12.9	I need you guys to show out once more, reply to an email, reply on an Instagram, reply in the
1:17.8	comment section of what our big five-word acceptance speech should be, because right now all I have
1:23.2	is let's ride, let's ride, let's. Yeah. So we're clearly in need of some help right now. So,
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