Wax figure of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Harmony Video Production / Shutterstock.com) Daily active users across Meta's properties slipped from 3.58 billion to 3.56 billion last quarter, the first decline the company has ever reported. Julia Angwin, writing in a New York Times opinion piece , says Meta has caught the same stink that AOL did in 2003 and that Yahoo did in 2015. She calls this the start of Meta's zombie era. Mark Zuckerberg burned $80 billion on the Metaverse from 2021 to 2026, trying to get users into headsets to hang out as legless avatars. He shut that down, then spent roughly $100 billion on an open-source AI model so unwieldy that almost nobody could run it. He scrapped that too and has told investors that Meta will spend at least another $115 billion on AI next year on a system that currently performs worse than its rivals. To pay for it, Meta has been borrowing.…