Is Avocado… Toast?

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Meta’s big new AI model is delayed because they still can’t get to state of the art. The social media addiction trial is winding down. All the video apps are going to end up looking exactly like one another eventually. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns (NYTimes) Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to the jury (AP) Peacock expands into AI-driven video, mobile-first live sports, and gaming (TechCrunch) Disney+ is rolling out its TikTok-like ‘Verts’ short-form video feed (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (David Oks's Blog) James Mason in a cave with a cat (Joel Morris's Substack) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.3	Welcome to the TechBoo Ride Home for Friday, March 13th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:39.2	Meta's big new AI model is delayed because they still can't get to state of the art, apparently.
0:44.6	The social media addiction trial is winding down.
0:47.2	All the video apps are going to end up looking exactly like one another eventually,
0:51.3	and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:53.6	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
1:03.1	Sources tell the times that meta has delayed the launch of its big avocado AI model to at least
1:09.4	May over performance concerns and also discussed temporarily
1:13.6	licensing Gemini to power its products in the meantime.
1:18.0	Quote, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta said in July that his company's new
1:22.4	artificial intelligence models would push the frontier in the next year or so.
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