This Week in Startups · 2026-08-11 · 80 min · 14,722 words

Zuck's AI manifesto is a data center PR masterclass | E2323

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There is a PR group for meta. That says, How can we turn the narrative on data centers around? Cause we need to build more data centers. We need to catch up here. When you're behind, you go open. When you're ahead, you go closed. I'm in your corner, and we're gonna be the company that gives you an agent, a tutor, free design tools, and makes your life better. The only thing we ask. Is that you let us build some data centers. This is the best version of Zuckerberg I've seen in his career. And he is thinking about the ramifications of. For the first time in the history of the company. This week in Startups is brought to you by Y Security, the on demand security team for startups. Need enterprise grade security without hiring a 400k CISO? Y Security gives you 40 plus expert engineers matched to exactly what you need by the hour with your first six hours completely free.

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This thing is long. I went on a ruck this morning and I listened to it. Sixty five hundred words. Sixty five hundred words in Zox. He writes nine more, he's got a book. So a book is typically sixty thousand words. So if he does nine more essays, you could have Zuckerberg's essays and he's getting Pretty active on X, which he never did. His handle is Fink D, if you don't know that, at F-I-N-K-D, which was his online handle when he was in college. Yes, he's he has not ever changed his uh his handle online. So uh yeah, the the essay is titled The Future is for Everyone, The Path to a Positive AI Future. Uh Here is arguments in a nutshell. Basically, superintelligence's biggest risk is centralization, not the tech itself, he expresses.

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