China’s state planner has prohibited the foreign acquisition of the Chinese artificial intelligence startup Manus and ordered the parties involved to cancel the transaction, the National Development and Reform Commission said on Monday. AI startups Moonshot AI and StepFun were among the companies that received the guidance, the report said. Regulators have also imposed similar…
HONG KONG (AP) — China on Monday blocked U.S. tech giant Meta’s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, in an unexpected move to reverse a deal that apparently aroused Beijing’s concerns about the transfer of advanced technology. In a one-line statement, China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top planning agency, said it…
HONG KONG (AP) — China on Monday blocked U.S. tech giant Meta’s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, in an unexpected move to reverse a deal that apparently aroused Beijing’s concerns about the transfer of advanced technology. In a one-line statement, China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top planning agency, said it…
Google’s 2025 Ads Safety Report says Gemini AI improved real-time detection of malicious advertising, helping remove 483.7 million policy-violating ads and suspend 1.7 million advertiser accounts in India. Globally, Google blocked or removed more than 8.3 billion bad ads and suspended 24.9 million advertiser accounts, stopping over 99 per cent before users saw them. Business…
Apple has hit the pause button on several popular “vibe coding” applications, preventing them from releasing new updates to the App Store, according to a report by The Information (via MacRumors). The move targets a new generation of AI-powered tools like Replit and Vibecode, which allow people to build entire apps and websites using nothing…
The Philippine government has moved to block access to the website of Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, as concerns intensify worldwide over the misuse of generative AI to create explicit and sexualized images. Authorities in the Philippines say the decision was driven by growing alarm over the chatbot’s ability…
