{"id":1005895,"date":"2026-04-30T09:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005895"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:09:59","slug":"chinas-meta-backlash-renders-manus-model-officially-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/chinas-meta-backlash-renders-manus-model-officially-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Meta backlash renders Manus model \u2018officially dead\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AI startup Manus, once hailed as a breakthrough that would challenge Silicon Valley\u2019s dominance, is turning into a cautionary tale for Chinese entrepreneurs after Beijing authorities ordered Meta Platforms to unwind its $2 billion takeover of the company. <\/p>\n<p>With a chilling 54-character decree from the top state planner, Beijing demonstrated its determination to prevent the transfer of sensitive technology to geopolitical foes at all costs. That follows a recent decision to bar major tech firms including ByteDance Ltd. and Moonshot AI from taking American capital without approval, and a clampdown on offshore Chinese companies seeking to list in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI startup Manus, once hailed as a breakthrough that would challenge Silicon Valley\u2019s dominance, is turning into a cautionary tale for Chinese entrepreneurs after Beijing authorities ordered Meta Platforms to unwind its $2 billion takeover of the company. With a chilling 54-character decree from the top state planner, Beijing demonstrated its determination to prevent the transfer of sensitive technology to geopolitical foes at all costs. That follows a recent decision to bar major tech firms including ByteDance Ltd. and Moonshot AI from taking American capital without approval, and a clampdown on offshore Chinese companies seeking to list in Hong [&hellip;]<\/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-1005895","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\/1005895","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=1005895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005926,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005895\/revisions\/1005926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}