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There’s a certain poetry in naming your flagship AI model after a fruit famous for going from “not ripe” to “completely rotten” in about six hours. Meta’s next-generation model, codenamed Avocado, was supposed to prove that $135 billion in annual AI spending could buy a seat at the frontier table. Instead, it’s become the most expensive guacamole in history — and the fallout is reshaping the entire tech industry. The Avocado Debacle The New York Times reported last week that Meta has delayed Avocado’s release from March to at least May. The reason: internal testing revealed the model trails leading systems from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic in logical reasoning, programming, and writing. ...

For years, Apple was the trillion-dollar company that couldn’t say “AI” out loud. While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic sprinted toward frontier models, Apple clung to “machine learning” like a security blanket — a term that by 2025 felt about as current as “World Wide Web.” That era just ended. The Rebrand That Says Everything According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will unveil Core AI at WWDC 2026 this June. It replaces Core ML, the machine learning framework that’s been powering on-device inference since 2017. Two letters change. The entire signal shifts. ...