{"id":1005319,"date":"2026-04-28T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005319"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:28:04","slug":"in-blocking-meta-manus-2-billion-ai-deal-china-is-trying-to-stem-brain-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/in-blocking-meta-manus-2-billion-ai-deal-china-is-trying-to-stem-brain-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"In blocking Meta-Manus\u2019 $2 billion AI deal, China is trying to stem brain drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Monday ordered the cancellation of Meta&#8217;s acquisition of Manus, the agentic AI firm that had been dubbed the country&#8217;s &#8220;next DeepSeek&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Manus was born in China, repackaged in Singapore, and sold to Silicon Valley giant Meta for $2 billion amid one of the most competitive geopolitical rivalries between the two superpowers. Then Beijing slammed the door. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling, issued in a single line citing only &#8220;laws and regulations&#8221;, was months in the making. But why was it done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Monday ordered the cancellation of Meta&#8217;s acquisition of Manus, the agentic AI firm that had been dubbed the country&#8217;s &#8220;next DeepSeek&#8221;. Manus was born in China, repackaged in Singapore, and sold to Silicon Valley giant Meta for $2 billion amid one of the most competitive geopolitical rivalries between the two superpowers. Then Beijing slammed the door. The ruling, issued in a single line citing only &#8220;laws and regulations&#8221;, was months in the making. But why was it done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005350,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005319\/revisions\/1005350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}