{"id":984239,"date":"2026-01-09T07:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984239"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:58:10","slug":"china-is-investigating-metas-latest-ai-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/china-is-investigating-metas-latest-ai-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"China is investigating Meta&#8217;s latest AI acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is investigating whether Meta&#8217;s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus violated its laws on technology exports and outbound investment. <\/p>\n<p>Those rules say that the Chinese government must approve the export of certain technologies, including interactive AI systems. Manus is based in Singapore but was founded by Chinese engineers and had a Chinese parent company. Beijing has used the same grounds to claim final sign-off on any sale of TikTok&#8217;s US operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is investigating whether Meta&#8217;s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus violated its laws on technology exports and outbound investment. Those rules say that the Chinese government must approve the export of certain technologies, including interactive AI systems. Manus is based in Singapore but was founded by Chinese engineers and had a Chinese parent company. Beijing has used the same grounds to claim final sign-off on any sale of TikTok&#8217;s US operations.<\/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-984239","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\/984239","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=984239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}