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Meta Gives Its Chatbot a Face, Because a Text Box Was Not Friendly Enough

Muse Voice reaches US users as Anthropic gives Claude a look at bank and card transactions.

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Jolly Gets a Face, and the Chatbot Gets a Better Seat at the Table

Meta has made Muse Voice available across the United States, letting users call or video chat with its consumer AI agent through a customizable animated avatar nicknamed Jolly. The feature, introduced at the company's Connect conference in September, uses two new models called Muse Realtime Avatar and Muse Realtime Voice. Users can ask questions or request help with tasks while looking at a character rather than a text box. Other AI assistants already offer voice conversations, but Meta is adding a face to the exchange. It is also preparing a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life. The combination puts a familiar consumer technology idea in a new outfit: make the interface pleasant enough that people want to keep using it. The customizable character provides a cheerful presence for a service that still depends on AI models to handle the actual request. Changing the face is easier than changing the answer. For Meta, the avatar and planned wearable offer more ways to put its assistant into daily routines. For users, the visible change is immediate: the software now smiles back. The next contest is whether a smiling character can make an ordinary question feel like an occasion worth dressing up for.

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Claude Studies Your Spending, Then Leaves You Alone With the Coffee Total

Anthropic's new Personal Finance feature lets Claude users connect bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask questions about their finances. A user can ask where the money went during the month and receive an overview based on connected transaction data. The feature puts a conversational interface in front of information that people might otherwise review in statements or banking apps. It also gives Anthropic a place in the increasingly crowded contest to make AI assistants useful in everyday life. A question that once sent someone hunting through a list of charges can instead begin with a single prompt. The appeal is obvious: a financial history is easier to approach when someone, or something, can help organize it. The tradeoff is equally concrete. The assistant needs access to sensitive account information to answer questions about that information. The convenience is not that the spending disappears, only that it arrives in a more conversational format. This may be the first budget review in which the auditor has infinite patience and no visible expression. Claude can help assemble the overview, while the account holder still gets the familiar privilege of discovering just how many small purchases can cooperate on one very large total. Even the most polished summary cannot persuade last month's transactions to become next month's savings.

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Robot Maker Joins Nasdaq, Bringing Its Own Reminder That the Future Is Not Yet at Scale

Agility's public debut meets a candid securities filing, while a tiny voice model makes a loud entrance.

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Agility Lists Its Robots, and Its Risk Disclosure Walks Beside Them

Agility Robotics has joined the Nasdaq as the first publicly traded US company dedicated to humanoid robots. The Salem, Oregon company arrives with a notable achievement and a warning: it reached full-time commercial deployment at a customer warehouse in 2024, but its securities filing says humanoid robots remain unproven at scale and have not achieved widespread commercialization. That distinction matters for a business asking public investors to assess a young market. A customer deployment is evidence that a robot can work in a real setting. Widespread adoption is a much larger claim, and Agility's own filing does not make it. Industrial robots, by comparison, have decades of established use in factories and warehouses. The listing puts a company building walking machines into a market accustomed to measuring progress in financial reports. Investors can now assess Agility's disclosures alongside its ambitions, rather than treating the appearance of a humanoid robot as proof of a mature industry. There is a pleasing contrast between a machine designed to resemble a worker and a filing written to discourage anyone from confusing potential with a finished business. The robot may be the star of the presentation, but the most grounded participant is the page explaining that a head start is not the same thing as a whole market.

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A 32MB Voice Model Asks the Cloud Giants to Use Their Indoor Voices

Startup Underdog has released a game built around Woof, a 32MB voice model that can generate speech and music. The demo places players in a retro room with a typewriter, a CRT monitor and a desk lamp that clicks when its switch is flipped. Its introduction warns of intrusive cloud providers in town. The playful setting points to a real division in AI development. Large models often require substantial processing power, while smaller models can be designed for devices such as phones and computers. Underdog's demo makes the compact approach audible as well as visible: the model's output includes music and speech despite its small file size. The game is a demonstration, not a complete accounting of how the model would handle every possible task. Its immediate argument is narrower and more entertaining. A small model can do something interesting without presenting itself as a vast remote intelligence occupying an entire corporate cloud. The cloud providers are cast as the intrusive neighbors, while a room full of old equipment hosts the alternative. It is an unusually cozy way to enter an infrastructure debate. Most AI launches ask for a bigger stage; Underdog has furnished a smaller room and made sure the lamp has a speaking part.

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Robot Training Discovers Reality Is Less Forgiving Than an Online Product Photo

Physicl raises seed funding for simulations as GitLab opens more of its platform to AI agents.

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Physicl Trades Perfect Product Images for Floors Robots Cannot Ignore

Physicl has raised $10 million in seed funding from Inovia Capital to develop more realistic simulations for robot builders and world model designers. Founder and CEO Alex de Vigan previously built nfinite, a business that helped brands and retailers create 3D product models for online display. The new venture is aimed at the sim-to-real gap: the difficulty of moving from a simulated training environment to the untidy physical world where a robot must actually work. The earlier platform was built to make products look appealing online. Physicl wants to repurpose that experience toward digital environments that are useful for training machines. The change in customers is significant. A retailer may want a convincing image of a product. A robot builder needs a simulation useful enough to prepare a machine for what happens beyond the screen. The two goals share digital tools, but their tests of success are not identical. The funding gives Physicl room to pursue the idea, not proof that the gap has been closed. Its premise is still a comic reversal: after years spent helping products look their best, the technology is being enlisted to make virtual environments behave more like the stubborn real thing. A robot cannot solve a misleading floor by improving the lighting.

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GitLab Invites AI Agents Inside, Then Gives Them a Governance Manual

GitLab 19.5, released October 15, puts agentic software development and governance at the center of its DevOps platform. The update makes its GitLab MCP server generally available and expands the ways external AI agents can interact with GitLab. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, gives AI tools a way to connect with software systems. General availability means the server is no longer merely an early idea for connecting agents to the platform. GitLab is positioning that connection alongside governance, reflecting the practical question of how teams should oversee automated participants in software work. The attraction is easy to see. Development teams already coordinate code and related work through shared platforms, so an agent that can interact with those systems could fit into an existing workflow. But the more an automated tool can reach, the more important it becomes to decide what it is allowed to do and who reviews the result. That makes the release a small portrait of the industry's larger ambition. Companies want AI to become a productive colleague, but they also want the colleague to respect permissions and process. GitLab's answer is to open the door and put the rulebook next to it. The agent gets a workspace; the humans keep the job of deciding what belongs there.

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Anthropic Pays for News and Discovers a Trillion-Dollar Price Tag Also Invites Questions

A first publisher licensing deal coincides with reported investor resistance to the company's proposed valuation.

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The News Subscription Arrives After the Chatbot Learned to Summarize

Anthropic has signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher, marking a change in how the company pays for news content. The agreement came shortly before the US midterm elections, a period when political reporting was particularly prominent. For publishers, licensing is one way to seek compensation as AI companies build services that can process and present information. For an AI company, a licensing agreement offers a formal relationship with a source of reporting. The deal is a concrete step, though one agreement does not by itself establish what arrangements will follow across the industry. The timing also puts the economics of journalism beside the ambitions of AI. Reporting requires people and resources, while a chatbot can make the finished information feel as though it simply appeared in response to a question. A payment agreement makes at least one part of that supply chain more visible. The transaction has a pleasingly old-fashioned quality for such a new business: a company has decided that access to news can be worth paying for. The assistant may deliver the result in a conversational answer, but somewhere behind the polished interface is a publisher with a bill. The digital future has rediscovered the subscription desk, even if it prefers to describe the visit as a licensing strategy.

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Investors Meet a $1.5 Trillion Valuation and Ask for a Smaller Number

Anthropic's planned initial public offering is facing investor resistance to a $1.5 trillion valuation as technology shares sell off, according to The Decoder. The reported pushback places a very large proposed price beside a market suddenly less inclined to accept large numbers without an argument. An IPO would bring the company into public markets, where prospective investors must weigh the price against their assessment of future growth and risk. A valuation is not the same thing as money already collected, and reported resistance is not a completed sale. The issue is what buyers are willing to support under the market conditions now facing the company. AI businesses have attracted enormous attention because of their potential to reshape software and other industries. They also operate in a competitive and costly field. The more ambitious the valuation, the more work it asks the future to do on behalf of today's price. That is an awkward assignment even for an industry fond of ambitious forecasts. A trillion-dollar figure can make a company look inevitable in a presentation, then look rather negotiable when investors arrive with their own calculations. The chatbot may be trained to produce an answer quickly; the market is taking its time over this particular prompt.

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The Always-On Coworker Arrives While Nations Keep Talking About Rules for Autonomous Weapons

Perplexity launches workplace agents as the US and Russia oppose a push for binding international negotiations.

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Perplexity Hires Teammates Who Never Ask Where the Coffee Went

Perplexity has launched Teammates, personal AI agents intended to help with ongoing work. The always-on agents can take multiple roles in a workspace and draw on existing projects, skills and memory from Perplexity tools, positioning the company against other providers of work-focused AI. The idea moves beyond a chatbot that answers one question at a time. A workspace agent is presented as a continuing participant in the tasks and materials people already use. Instead of introducing each request from scratch, users are promised help that can draw on an existing context. That is a tempting office proposition: more assistance without another calendar to coordinate. It also makes the human side of the arrangement important. A team must still decide what work to delegate, what information an agent should use and how to review what comes back. Always available is a description of access, not a guarantee that every task has been completed as intended. The name Teammates does a lot of work itself. It suggests cooperation, shared history and a colleague who understands the project. The actual product remains software operating inside a workspace. It may never ask for lunch or complain about a meeting, but it has already acquired the most common office perk: a reassuring title and a long list of responsibilities.

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US and Russia Give Binding AI Weapons Rules More Time to Remain Unwritten

The United States and Russia are leading a group of countries seeking to block proposals to negotiate legally binding rules on autonomous weapons at a United Nations conference, according to The Guardian. The meeting follows years of discussion about a gap in international governance for such systems. The extent of opposition is due to become clearer at a diplomatic retreat before the review conference in Geneva, which is expected to include 128 countries. The question is not whether a binding agreement has already been defeated, but whether negotiations toward one will move forward. The stakes reach beyond any single government. Autonomous weapons raise questions about how decisions to select and engage targets are made, and what limits countries should accept as technology advances. A binding international agreement would require governments to settle on obligations rather than simply acknowledge the subject is important. That is where diplomacy offers its familiar contribution: a great deal of machinery for deciding whether to start building the rules. Countries that rarely share a position can still find common ground in keeping their options open. Meanwhile, the conference calendar fills up with discussions about a technology that has not agreed to wait politely for the procedural agenda.

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Google Makes AI Video Cheaper, So Editors Can Spend More Time Choosing What to Keep

A longer video model reaches general availability as AWS prices a service that tests code vulnerabilities.

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Fifteen Seconds of Video, Now With Thirty Percent Less on the Bill

Google DeepMind has made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available, offering AI-generated video clips of up to 15 seconds and conversational, step-by-step editing. At 720p, the model costs $0.07 per second, which is 30 percent less than its predecessor, according to the reported pricing. The release gives people making short videos a longer clip and a lower stated cost per second. Users can also draft at low resolution and upscale the final result, potentially reducing costs further. The conversational editing feature lets a user make successive changes rather than treating each initial result as the only version. For creators and businesses, the price and duration are practical details. They affect how much experimentation fits into a budget and how much material can be produced for a project. They do not, on their own, settle whether a clip is useful or whether it belongs in the finished work. That leaves the editor with an updated version of an old problem. More affordable footage makes it easier to generate options, and each option still asks for attention. Google has made the seconds cheaper; it has not made the decision about which seconds deserve to survive any shorter. The final cut remains a scarce resource, especially when the machine is happy to make another draft.

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AWS Tests the Bug, Offers a Fix, and Meters the Whole Encounter

Amazon Web Services has made Continuum for code vulnerabilities generally available in two regions. The service tests whether vulnerabilities can be exploited by running real exploits in a sandbox, then opens proposed fixes as pull requests. The method goes beyond merely listing suspicious code. By attempting an exploit in an isolated environment, the service aims to show whether a finding is usable in practice. A pull request then gives developers a proposed change to review in their normal workflow. Published pricing charges per finding processed and per line of code. That gives customers two dimensions to consider when assessing the service, particularly if they have large codebases or many findings. Practitioners are also asking what would justify letting the tool merge fixes on its own, a separate question from opening a proposed change for review. The product promises a more useful conversation about security alerts: not just whether something looks risky, but whether an exploit works and what a fix might look like. The invoice has its own conversation, conducted in the language of findings and lines. AWS has found a way to make both the code and its problems count. The developer still gets the final review, along with a new reason to notice how much code the team has written.

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Airbnb Books Its AI Agent for 2027, While Security Firms Price the Agents Already Here

A travel assistant remains a plan, and Palo Alto Networks is reportedly in talks to buy Clutch.

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Airbnb's Trip Planner Has an Itinerary, Starting With a Future Launch

Airbnb plans to roll out an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027 to help users plan and book travel. The company says its eventual goal is an assistant that can help manage an entire trip. The announcement offers a timeline and an ambition, not a completed service that travelers can already use. Airbnb acknowledges that current AI agents are good at simple, routine tasks, such as making a restaurant reservation or scheduling an appointment. Managing a whole trip would bring many such decisions into a single experience. The travel company's interest is understandable. A vacation can involve comparing options, arranging a stay and keeping track of plans after the booking is made. An assistant that helps coordinate those steps would occupy a useful position between the traveler and the many details of a trip. It would also give Airbnb another way to keep customers interacting with its platform throughout the process. The company is promising less planning friction, while setting a launch date far enough away that the agent still has time to pack. For now, the only confirmed itinerary is the company's own: develop the assistant, aim for the first half of 2027 and eventually take on the larger job. Travelers can add the promise to their calendars, though the vacation itself still needs planning.

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Palo Alto Networks Considers Paying a Premium to Keep Agents in Bounds

Palo Alto Networks is in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500 million, TechCrunch reports. A source said Clutch, which is backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million. The reported purchase price is close to six times that previous valuation. The discussions are not a completed acquisition, and the figure describes the terms under discussion rather than a finalized deal. Even so, the size of the potential premium illustrates how much attention security for AI agents is attracting. Agents are designed to do more than respond to a question: they can interact with tools and systems as part of a workflow. That makes security a commercial opportunity as well as a practical concern for organizations considering their use. A larger security company may see value in adding a specialist rather than building every capability itself. The numbers also offer a compact account of the industry's priorities. First, make software able to act. Next, build tools to manage the consequences. Then discuss a price for the company offering those tools that makes its earlier valuation look like an introductory offer. The parties are still talking, so the paperwork has not caught up with the excitement. In this part of the AI business, even the potential guardrails come with an ambitious price tag.

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OpenAI Finds a Use for Public Promises, While AI Agents Find a Difficult Work Test

The company limits secrecy with public officials, and a new benchmark gives leading models modest scores.

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OpenAI Promises Fewer Secret Agreements After Voters Request a Say

OpenAI says it will not use non-disclosure agreements with public officials on data center projects, part of a set of community commitments announced after midterm votes showed strong opposition to data center expansion. The pledge addresses a form of secrecy that has drawn scrutiny around discussions of major infrastructure. A non-disclosure agreement can keep details of a negotiation private. When the other party is a public official discussing a local project, residents may have an interest in knowing what is being proposed and on what terms. OpenAI's commitment concerns agreements with those officials, rather than a blanket ban on every kind of confidentiality arrangement. Data centers require substantial infrastructure and can affect the communities where they are built. For a company seeking to expand its computing capacity, public trust can therefore be as important to a project as the equipment inside it. A pledge about negotiations is one response to the political resistance surrounding that expansion. The timing makes the corporate lesson especially clear. An industry accustomed to presenting the cloud as an invisible convenience has encountered voters who can see the land and facilities involved. OpenAI's answer includes a promise to keep some conversations out of the shadows. Transparency, it turns out, is easier to announce once the neighbors have already found the ballot box.

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AI Agents Enter a Work Benchmark and Leave With Less Than 12 Percent

No model scored above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new GDPx benchmark, which tests AI agents on simulated knowledge work ranging from chip design to quantitative trading. Claude Opus 5.5 led narrowly over Gemini 4 Carbon. The result offers a contrast to sweeping claims about agents taking over complex office work. GDPx asks models to perform tasks drawn from demanding fields rather than simply answer a general question. On this test, the leading score remained below 12 percent, with little separating the top two models. The benchmark also has limits. Critics point to a small number of tasks in each domain and uneven testing conditions, factors that can affect how much a score says about broader performance. A result on this particular set of simulated tasks is not a complete measure of every workplace use. Even with those qualifications, the figures make a memorable office report. Vendors can describe an agent as tireless, versatile and ready for responsibility, but a difficult assignment still has a way of asking for the work itself. The leaderboard provides a winner and an unusually modest margin for celebration. In the simulated workplace, the machines have discovered that being first in the class is not the same thing as passing the test.

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Social Media Seeks Its Next Act, While AI Films and Ads Borrow Familiar Human Tricks

A Reddit co-founder considers user-generated content, Grimes joins a film, and chatbot companies pursue advertisers.

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Reddit's Co-Founder Finds That Social Apps Have Lost Their Cool

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says building social media apps is no longer cool, and he is looking for what comes next for user-generated content. He describes an internet that feels increasingly compromised. The question comes from someone associated with a platform built around people posting, discussing and organizing communities. As AI-generated material becomes easier to produce, the familiar distinction between a person's contribution and manufactured content can become harder to navigate. Ohanian's search does not identify a settled replacement for social media. It highlights a problem for anyone hoping to build the next gathering place: the value of user-generated content depends in part on what users contribute and whether others want to engage with it. The old pitch was that everyone could have a voice. The new challenge is making a crowded room worth listening to when software can supply extra voices on demand. Even the co-founder of a giant forum is now looking around for the next conversation.

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An AI Film Adds Grimes, Because Even the Future Likes a Famous Name

Pop star Grimes will appear in Gods Don't Give Gifts, an AI-generated science fiction film billed as the first AI film to come to theaters. The project is a test of whether a film associated with AI production can attract a commercial audience beyond online demonstrations. The theatrical claim is part of the film's billing, not an independently established record. What is clear is that the production is pairing its technology story with a recognizable performer. That gives audiences two familiar reasons to notice a release: a distinctive premise and a known name. The combination creates a useful reversal. A project marketed around a new way to make a movie is also relying on one of the oldest promotional devices in entertainment. The machinery may be novel, but the marquee still appreciates a star.

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Chatbot Ads Seek a Friendly Way to Interrupt the Friendly Assistant

Chatbot companies are racing to attract advertisers without antagonizing users, according to WIRED, while Anthropic maintains its pledge to keep ads out of Claude. The industry is testing how commercial messages fit into a product built around conversation. The challenge is familiar from other online services, but the setting is different. An assistant's response can feel like a direct answer to a personal question, making the placement and presentation of advertising especially important to the experience. Companies want a business model that does not make users regret asking for help. Anthropic's ad-free position offers a different pitch from rivals pursuing advertising. Both approaches depend on retaining people who find the service useful. The chatbot industry's newest design problem is therefore not simply what to say, but how to make room for a sponsor without turning every helpful reply into a suspiciously enthusiastic shopping trip.

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Markets Reprice the AI Future, Which Still Needs Security Tests and Real Materials

The Nasdaq falls, OpenAI introduces a cyber model, and a startup offers a prize for unsolved science problems.

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Nasdaq Discovers the AI Boom Comes With a Rulebook

The Nasdaq fell 5.5 percent Thursday, its worst day in 19 months, as investors weighed the possibility of tougher AI regulation and limits on data centers after the midterms. The Guardian reported that more than $2 trillion had been shaved from the index's value by the end of trading, as it entered correction territory. The decline brought infrastructure politics into a market assessment of AI growth. Investors had to consider not only demand for computing but also the rules and local decisions that could shape expansion. The cloud, it seems, has a very earthly permitting problem.

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OpenAI's Cyber Model Finds Flaws and Supplies Its Own Repair List

OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Cyber to find software vulnerabilities, develop exploits and suggest patches. The company says the model found 81 previously unknown Firefox vulnerabilities and developed 948 working exploits in the Linux kernel. Those figures are OpenAI's account of its model's performance. The product combines the ability to identify a security weakness with the ability to propose a response, giving defenders a tool for both investigation and repair. It is a busy job description: find the broken lock, demonstrate the problem and then write up the locksmith's bill of work.

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A Million-Dollar Materials Challenge Asks AI to Leave the Blackboard

A Y Combinator startup is putting $1 million behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI. The challenge focuses on advanced materials, where complex physical behavior remains difficult even as frontier models have made progress on mathematics problems and in life sciences. The prize offers a concrete test of whether AI can contribute to questions about the physical properties of matter. Materials research matters to technologies such as chips and batteries, but a promising result still has to contend with the demands of the field. An elegant answer is welcome; the material gets a vote too.

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Meta's Cloud Ambitions Meet Neighbors With Opinions

Meta has warned that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investment. The concern follows community resistance to large infrastructure projects needed for expanding computing capacity. The warning puts a practical constraint beside the company's AI ambitions. Data centers occupy real locations, and their expansion can become a public issue rather than a purely technical decision. Meta may describe its services in the language of the cloud, but its investment plans still have to contend with the ground underneath. The future has arrived at a neighborhood meeting and must wait for its turn to speak.

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