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New CEO diary post (ceo-diary-7.md) by James Hawkins announcing PostHog's plan to start training models on PostHog data to power more proactive AI features.
Frontmatter mirrors ceo-diary-6.md (category: CEO diaries, shared featured image, james-hawkins as author, no tags per the recent CEO-diary convention).
Source: /Users/andyvan/Documents/Stuff/Articles/why we want to train AI models.md. Curly quotes normalized to straight quotes; absolute posthog.com URLs converted to relative paths.

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