{"id":1005338,"date":"2026-04-28T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005338"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:24:26","slug":"china-orders-meta-to-unwind-2-billion-buy-of-ai-startup-manus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/china-orders-meta-to-unwind-2-billion-buy-of-ai-startup-manus\/","title":{"rendered":"China orders Meta to unwind $2 billion buy of AI startup Manus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China ordered US tech giant Meta to unwind its $2 billion-plus acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus on Monday, as Beijing tightens scrutiny of US investment in domestic startups in frontier technologies. <\/p>\n<p>The National Development and Reform Commission&#8217;s move highlights China&#8217;s commitment to stopping US firms acquiring AI talent and intellectual property, as Washington tries to cut off Chinese tech firms&#8217; access to advanced US chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China ordered US tech giant Meta to unwind its $2 billion-plus acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus on Monday, as Beijing tightens scrutiny of US investment in domestic startups in frontier technologies. The National Development and Reform Commission&#8217;s move highlights China&#8217;s commitment to stopping US firms acquiring AI talent and intellectual property, as Washington tries to cut off Chinese tech firms&#8217; access to advanced US chips.<\/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-1005338","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\/1005338","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=1005338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005340,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005338\/revisions\/1005340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}