On April 23, Meta told 8,000 employees they would be walking out the door on May 20. The next morning, Microsoft announced the first voluntary retirement program in its 51-year history — up to 8,750 people eligible. Six weeks earlier, Block gutted 40% of its workforce, citing its own internal AI agent. The headlines write themselves: "AI is eating the tech industry," "the labor crisis is here." 📖 Read the full version with charts and embedded sources on ComputeLeap → That's the story everyone is telling. It's also the wrong one. The real story is happening inside Meta's own walls. The same week the company said goodbye to 8,000 people, it quietly began installing surveillance software on the computers of the employees it's keeping — a program called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI) that records every keystroke, mouse movement, and periodic screenshot across Gmail, GitHub, Slack, and hundreds of other sites. The stated purpose: to train AI agents that can automate white-collar work.…