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China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI platform Manus
“China has blocked Meta's two billion dollar acquisition of artificial intelligence platform Manus after regulators reviewed whether the deal violated Beijing's investment rules.”
Patel: Manus Is Complementary to US AI Foundation Labs
“Manus seems like in the middle ground here where I wouldn't want to just generally try to harm China by tariffing batteries or cars or something. This is an application of AI and it's complimentary to American AI Foundation Labs because they're using the cloud…”
Meta hits $72B in capex and acquires AI startup Manus for $2B
“Meta's been ramping up AI spending on AI, pushing its capital expenditure to seventy-two billion last year with plans to accelerate that spending this year. It's also doled out offers worth tens of millions 1000 of millions of dollars to AI researchers and eng…”