China’s decision to press Meta to unwind a $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus marks a step unlike anything it’s tried before. https://t.co/syK7TgcZg0 ...

Let's start in China actually and we'll come back to the trial because I am curious given your experience as well. They're trying to block this meta deal. Uh and then we don't really talk about deepseek I don't feel like enough you know where they're raising money at and what they're what they're doing.So sort of take it away. >> Well let's first start with the metamis deal right so America forced the sale of Tik Tok and China just forced the return of Manis. So it seems that this sort of AI cold war that w ...

Meta Platforms wants to get some of its solar power from space https://t.co/dd808puIuf ...

China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus, making a surprise move to unwind a deal that’s drawn fire for the leakage of technology to the US. Bloomberg's Matt Bloxham explains https://t.co/A10mnUxnBL https://t.co/tYFOB16rUE ...

China is blocking Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus, making a surprise move to unwind a controversial deal that’s drawn fire for the leakage of technology to the US. Read more: https://t.co/H8EccFjBqO📷️: Raul Ariano/Bloomberg https://t.co/Zgwc48rufU ...

China has decided to block Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus, making a surprise move to unwind a controversial deal that’s drawn fire for the leakage of technology to the US https://t.co/Ka9eQeAGXf ...

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus's biggest challenge 2) Is turnover at Apple a good thing 3) The products Ternus will take to market 4) What is Apple's tabletop robot all about 5) OpenAI is communicating differently 6) Is TBPN helping OpenAI messaging? 7) Anthropic's Mythos rollout vs. OpenAI's Spud rollout 8) Meta's latest layoffs. 9) Meta tracks employees keystrokes 10) Is Meta's tracking a reinforcement learning ...

Meta is going to track everything their employees do on their computers to make sure their AI agents can click around like open windows, click on apps. They're gonna they just harvest that as training data. According to our friend Alex Heath and sources, Meta has experienced quote intense internal backlash to this program which is called the model capability initiative.Horrible thing to call it. The reason to be mad about this, right, is you are asking me to do my job while tacitly training a computer to do ...

That doesn't mean AI is totally off the hook, however. Julia Borston has more. Julia.>> Well, Kelly, uh, what we're seeing now is the fact that in the past 24 hours, Meta and Microsoft announced a combined 23,000 job cuts. And that speaks to how tech giants are doing more with fewer workers. And that speaks to new AI efficiency, enabling each worker to do more.CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in the company's last earnings call, quote, "We're investing in AI native tooling." so individuals at Meta can get more done ...

Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to a multi-year deal to use Amazon’s AI chips in a deal that AWS says is worth billions of dollars. https://t.co/y0OXPNTQdI ...