Meta gives every US adult free AI, yet coverage fixates on a 27-year-old quitter
neil_chilson · x · 2026-09-11
- Neil Chilson notes Meta this week announced free, powerful AI access for every adult in the U.S., capable of helping solve all sorts of problems.
- He laments that news coverage instead fixated on a 27-year-old who quit his job, drowning out the far bigger story of mass free AI availability.
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