Anyone have info on whose regulatory restrictions they are referring to?
The Chinese government blocked Meta’s acquisition. https://archive.is/yFCIt
Interesting to know that Meta has business in China and needs the government's approval.
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Chinese government blocked Meta’s acquisition. https://archive.is/yFCIt
Interesting to know that Meta has business in China and needs the government's approval.
About 10% of Meta's ad revenue comes from Chinese companies reaching a international audience. They also manufacture most of their wearable devices in China.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
No it’s Chinese state who is preventing founders from leaving China https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/12/meta-reportedly-begins-d...
just to be clear, they did this to make sure they follow the governments order instead of running away to Singapore and going on with the acquisition. they will most likely get released when the unwinding process is complete. its not a general national security thing where AI founders cant leave the country.
It actually is. For example, Deepseek higher ups already had similar implications in the Chinese underground news. CCP has great control over the corporations.
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#64Does anyone here use Manus actively? I found it worse than alternatives in the similar space (Claude, genspark, kagi research, etc.) and slightly baffling they were being acquired at a $2B valuation in the first place.
Manus did a lot of harness work to make up for gaps in Opus 4.5 tier models. I tried it for a time - they had a great deep research/PDF generation pipeline, parallelization, etc. The bitter lesson has now come for them: the latest models no longer have these gaps and the entire premise of having a unique product focus on this area is no longer relevant. Even Ant/OAI have let their "Deep Research" capabilities fall by the wayside, you can largely get the same result by asking for subagents or simply "keep going" style prompting.
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#65I bet Demis wishes the UK had blocked the DeepMind acquisition by Google. He will have a lot of time to think now that he has been kicked out of his own company
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#66Does anyone here use Manus actively? I found it worse than alternatives in the similar space (Claude, genspark, kagi research, etc.) and slightly baffling they were being acquired at a $2B valuation in the first place.
In my experience, Manus is a very capable agent for daily non-coding tasks. Their cron job ability also shined out
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Chinese government blocked Meta’s acquisition. https://archive.is/yFCIt
Interesting to know that Meta has business in China and needs the government's approval.
This was pressure on the founders and the fact that they have their families effectively hostage, not on Meta.
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This is deeply troubling.
Maybe for the accountants! I have always done my own taxes, but used arcane custom spreadsheets that accumulated cruft each year. I told cowork to pretend it was an accountant and reorganize them using best practices, and the result is much better than what I had before. It also helped me complete a task I had been deferring for years (tracking down the history of money in my IRAs that had been transferred between di…
I’ve been having Claude do my business books for the past year or so, operating on a beancount ledger and it’s worked quite well
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#69What does this product do? There's absolutely nothing on the main screen of the app except a chat box.
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#70What does this product do? There's absolutely nothing on the main screen of the app except a chat box.
Money. They have AI on the pitch deck and therefore make obscure amounts of money.