{"id":1005504,"date":"2026-04-28T10:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005504"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:08:01","slug":"china-blocks-metas-acquisition-of-artificial-intelligence-startup-manus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/china-blocks-metas-acquisition-of-artificial-intelligence-startup-manus\/","title":{"rendered":"China blocks Meta&#8217;s acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China on Monday blocked Meta&#8217;s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, which has Chinese roots but is Singapore-based. <\/p>\n<p>In a short statement, China&#8217;s National Development and Reform Commission, the country&#8217;s 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>China on Monday blocked Meta&#8217;s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, which has Chinese roots but is Singapore-based. In a short statement, China&#8217;s National Development and Reform Commission, the country&#8217;s 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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005504","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=1005504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005506,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005504\/revisions\/1005506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}