{"id":983196,"date":"2026-01-03T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983196"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:15:02","slug":"no-continuing-china-link-facebook-parent-meta-clarifies-after-2-billion-manus-ai-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/no-continuing-china-link-facebook-parent-meta-clarifies-after-2-billion-manus-ai-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No continuing China-link\u2019: Facebook-parent Meta clarifies after $2 billion Manus AI deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has confirmed that its acquisition of Singapore-based AI startup Manus in a deal reportedly valued at more than $2 billion. It has been reported that the Manus has Chinese roots but a Meta spokesperson clarified that there would be \u201cno continuing Chinese ownership interests in Manus AI\u201d post-transaction.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesperson (via Fortune), to comply with Meta\u2019s operational standards and geopolitical considerations, Manus will also shutter all services and operations within mainland China, refocusing its efforts entirely on its Singapore headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has confirmed that its acquisition of Singapore-based AI startup Manus in a deal reportedly valued at more than $2 billion. It has been reported that the Manus has Chinese roots but a Meta spokesperson clarified that there would be \u201cno continuing Chinese ownership interests in Manus AI\u201d post-transaction. According to the spokesperson (via Fortune), to comply with Meta\u2019s operational standards and geopolitical considerations, Manus will also shutter all services and operations within mainland China, refocusing its efforts entirely on its Singapore headquarters.<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983196","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=983196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}