{"id":1006018,"date":"2026-04-30T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006018"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:00:46","slug":"meta-preparing-to-unwind-2-5-billion-manus-acquisition-let-co-founders-go-after-china-ban-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/meta-preparing-to-unwind-2-5-billion-manus-acquisition-let-co-founders-go-after-china-ban-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta preparing to unwind $2.5 billion Manus acquisition, let co-founders go after China ban: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is planning to unwind its acquisition of AI startup Manus after the Chinese government banned the transaction on Monday on national security grounds, according to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Mark Zuckerberg-led company had bought Manus AI last year for $2.5 billion and then worked on integrating the company&#8217;s technology into its systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is planning to unwind its acquisition of AI startup Manus after the Chinese government banned the transaction on Monday on national security grounds, according to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company had bought Manus AI last year for $2.5 billion and then worked on integrating the company&#8217;s technology into its systems.<\/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-1006018","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\/1006018","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=1006018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}