{"id":1005404,"date":"2026-04-28T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005404"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:47:39","slug":"china-blocks-meta-from-acquiring-ai-startup-manus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/china-blocks-meta-from-acquiring-ai-startup-manus\/","title":{"rendered":"China blocks Meta from acquiring AI startup Manus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG: China on Monday blocked Meta\u2019s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, which has Chinese roots but is Singapore-based. <\/p>\n<p>In a short statement, China\u2019s National Development and Reform Commission, the country\u2019s top planning agency, said it was prohibiting a foreign acquisition of Manus and had required all the parties to withdraw from the deal. It did not specifically name Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG: China on Monday blocked Meta\u2019s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, which has Chinese roots but is Singapore-based. In a short statement, China\u2019s National Development and Reform Commission, the country\u2019s top planning agency, said it was prohibiting a foreign acquisition of Manus and had required all the parties to withdraw from the deal. It did not specifically name Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005404","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=1005404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005485,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005404\/revisions\/1005485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}