{"id":1005433,"date":"2026-04-28T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005433"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:07:42","slug":"china-obstructs-meta-platforms-2-billion-purchase-ai-firm-manus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/china-obstructs-meta-platforms-2-billion-purchase-ai-firm-manus\/","title":{"rendered":"China obstructs Meta Platforms\u2019 $2 billion purchase AI firm Manus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has opted to obstruct Meta Platforms Inc.\u2019s $2 billion purchase of agentic AI firm Manus, an unexpected reversal of a contentious merger criticized for transferring critical technology to the United States. The National Development and Reform Commission mandated the deal\u2019s termination via a concise announcement Monday. This ruling followed existing statutes, the influential state planner noted in a brief notification, offering no further clarification.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict will likely distress China\u2019s expanding AI industry, appearing just weeks before a significant summit between US President Donald Trump and China\u2019s Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has opted to obstruct Meta Platforms Inc.\u2019s $2 billion purchase of agentic AI firm Manus, an unexpected reversal of a contentious merger criticized for transferring critical technology to the United States. The National Development and Reform Commission mandated the deal\u2019s termination via a concise announcement Monday. This ruling followed existing statutes, the influential state planner noted in a brief notification, offering no further clarification. The verdict will likely distress China\u2019s expanding AI industry, appearing just weeks before a significant summit between US President Donald Trump and China\u2019s Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005433","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005434,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005433\/revisions\/1005434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}