📌 TOPINDIATOURS Update ai: Mark Zuckerberg Secretly Training an AI Agent to Do CEO

Here’s one job we won’t be sorry to see get automated with AI.

According to a new scoop from the The Wall Street Journal, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO AI agent to help him do his job.

The AI agent helps Zuckerberg get information faster, such as by retrieving answers for him that he would typically have to go through layers of people to get, per the reporting, citing a person familiar with the project. Where this meaningfully differs from a run of the mill chatbot, or where its agentic capabilities come in, is unclear.

Credit to Zuckerberg: it seems he believes in his own tech’s hype enough to let it shadow his own role at the corporation. It’s that same kind of conviction he displayed when he renamed his entire multibillion dollar empire from Facebook to Meta in pursuit of building a sweeping virtual reality “Metaverse” to rival our mundane physical one. Just don’t ask how that experiment panned out, or about the roughly $80 billion it lost.

Part of Zuckerberg’s AI obsession is using it to de-bloat his 78,000 strong company, flatten its organizational structure, and accelerate productivity. In a January earnings call, Zuckerberg declared that it was “investing in AI-native tooling so individuals at Meta can get more done.”

“We’re elevating individual contributors and flattening teams,” he described, per the WSJ. “If we do this, then I think that we’re going to get a lot more done and I think it’ll be a lot more fun.”

This AI evangelism from the top has seeped into every nook and cranny of the company. Employees are encouraged to attend AI tutorial meetings several times per week, attend AI hackathons, and create their own AI tools to help them at work. And whether by their own accord or by Zuckerberg’s decree, the employees — whose performance reviews are now partly based on AI usage — seem to be on board.

An internal message board is filled with posts from employees enthusing about new AI use cases they discovered and new tools they built with AI. Some use AI agents like My Claw to act like personal secretaries, giving them access to their messages and work files, and deploying them to talk to their colleagues — or even their colleagues’ own AI agents. (My Claw is a more personalized version of Open Claw, an open source model that’s hyped in tech circles for being an AI that “actually does things.”) 

Another option gaining steam in the workforce was built by a Meta employee. Called Second Brain, its creator described it as acting like an “AI chief of staff,” and can purportedly index and query documents for projects, per the reporting.

On the internal messaging board, employees have created a group where their personal AI agents talk to each other, mirroring a social media site for AI agents called “Moltbook” that generated a frenzy of hype earlier this year, and which Meta recently acquired.

A recent critical security incident at the company illustrated how fostering a culture of rapid AI deployment can backfire. When a software engineer used an in-house AI agent to break down a technical question posed by a colleague on the internal messaging board, the AI went “rogue” by posting its answer without the employee’s approval. Another employee read the post and acted on the AI’s erroneous advice, leading to troves of sensitive company and user data being exposed to engineers without proper access for nearly two hours.

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📌 TOPINDIATOURS Update ai: World’s first beer made with CO2 captured from thin air

A California craft brewery has launched what it claims is the world’s first beer carbonated with carbon dioxide captured directly from the air, marking a shift in how a critical industrial input can be sourced.

Aircapture, a company focused on direct air capture (DAC), partnered with Almanac Beer Co. to debut Flow – Clean Air Edition (Flow – CAE).

The system sits inside Almanac’s brewery in Alameda, California. It pulls CO₂ from ambient air and refines it to beverage-grade quality before feeding it into the brewing process.

The launch follows a turbulent period for U.S. manufacturers.

A nationwide CO₂ shortage in 2022 disrupted operations and raised costs across food and beverage sectors, with breweries among the hardest hit.

The shortage exposed a structural weakness. Most commercial CO₂ comes from fossil-fuel-linked processes such as ammonia and ethanol production.

When those slow or divert supply, downstream users feel the shock.

Breaking CO₂ supply chains

Aircapture’s system bypasses that dependency. It captures CO₂ onsite, eliminating reliance on external industrial supply chains.

The unit produces liquid CO₂ at 99.999% purity, exceeding standard beverage requirements.

This approach reframes carbon dioxide as a localized input rather than a volatile byproduct.

For brewers, it reduces exposure to supply disruptions and price swings. It also offers a more predictable production environment.

“Until now, CO2 has been a volatile byproduct of fuel and chemical production,” said Matt Atwood, CEO and Founder of Aircapture.

“With Flow – Clean Air Edition, we’re making high-purity CO2 from the air right where it’s needed, and delivering it at a cost that works for business owners,” said Matt Atwood, CEO and Founder of Aircapture.

He described the system as an early signal of a broader shift in how industries source carbon dioxide.

Instead of relying on fossil-fuel-linked production, companies can generate CO₂ onsite from ambient air.

He pointed to its potential across sectors, including food, refrigeration, concrete, and agriculture, and said the approach is now commercially viable rather than experimental.

Large DAC projects often require years of construction and significant capital.

Aircapture took a different route. Its modular system integrates with existing brewery infrastructure and can go live within weeks.

Almanac installed the unit without building a new facility or disrupting production.

The system now feeds captured atmospheric CO₂ directly into its brewing line.

That creates a closed-loop process where carbon becomes a reusable resource.

“Brewing is both science and craft,” said Damian Fagan, CEO of Almanac Beer Co.

He said the brewery no longer depends on distant industrial CO₂ supply.

Instead, it now sources carbon dioxide directly from ambient air at its Alameda facility, creating a more localized and circular production process.

Policy push and market test

The launch also ties into broader U.S. carbon removal efforts.

A portion of proceeds from Flow – CAE will support Carbon180, a nonprofit advancing carbon removal policy.

Almanac introduced the beer during a public event at its Alameda brewery on March 21.

Visitors toured the DAC system and saw how captured CO₂ enters the brewing process.

Flow – Clean Air Edition is now available at the brewery and across more than 800 retail accounts statewide.

Distribution includes major chains such as Safeway, Whole Foods, Total Wine, and BevMo.

The project serves as a real-world test case for decentralized carbon sourcing. If scalable, it could reshape how industries secure one of their most overlooked inputs.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com