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First off, check out Jyoti’s Wednesday scoop about Meta’s latest AI model efforts. In sum, Meta is telling its employees “we’re back in the game!” and setting high expectations for the company’s next open-weight large language model, codenamed Avocado.Yes, Meta AI leaders did the same last year with Llama 4 and we all know how poorly that turned out! But given what happened then, we imagine that this time will be different.On to today’s column…As viral tools like OpenClaw bring AI agents back into the tech-

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