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News & Current Events Apr 27, 2026 at 10:44 AM

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

Posted by mdchaara


China blocks Meta's $2 billion takeover of AI startup Manus
CNBC
China blocks Meta's $2 billion takeover of AI startup Manus
China said Monday it has decided to block Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese roots.

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YoungRichBastard26s 1 day ago +70
Finally somebody stopping mark from buying up competition and adding it to the dying meta ecosystem but mostly like the tik tok deal with trump caused this
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Previous-Height4237 1 day ago +22
Nah, there's plenty of other cases of Chinese companies being blocked from the US market that can be feeding the tit for tat. But also, there has been a ton of anti-China AI regulation passed in the US such as prohibiting exports of GPUs to China (for awhile) which is now "pay the US a tax to send them to China" and other nonsense. Basically they have alot more reasons than just TikTok for this and China is flexing.
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tegat 1 day ago +36
The 1980s change in the US antitrust doctrine (exemplified by [The Antitrust Paradox ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox)) cased an untold damage to the US citizens. It essentially gave free pass to nearly any merger and default answer changed to "yes." Mergers mean less competition. Apply the doctrine for few decades and now basically everything is owned by one or two conglomerates and hundreds of subsidiaries.
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Haru1st 1 day ago +7
Are you alluding to monopolies being anti-competitive, or something? Who wouldda thunk
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KhausTO 1 day ago +5
I thought this was already done?  They've  been adding manus into Facebook for a while now
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imminentjogger5 1 day ago +1
how is that pronounced?
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Royal_Airport7940 1 day ago +33
M'a***
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santathe1 1 day ago +4
M’thanks.
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Haru1st 1 day ago +1
What does Meta want with M’a***?
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MalFido 1 day ago
"Mah-noose", just with a short "oo"-sound.
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ryanknapper 1 day ago -1
May zuckerberg feel the Hands of Fate.
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Sugarfiltration01 1 day ago
is on you now.
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