{"id":999454,"date":"2026-03-26T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999454"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:39:52","slug":"china-bars-manus-cofounders-from-leaving-country-as-it-reviews-sale-to-meta-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/26\/china-bars-manus-cofounders-from-leaving-country-as-it-reviews-sale-to-meta-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China bars Manus cofounders from leaving country as it reviews sale to Meta: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has barred two co-founders of artificial intelligence startup Manus from leaving the country as regulators review whether Meta&#8217;s $2 billion acquisition of the firm violated investment rules, the Financial Times reported. <\/p>\n<p>Manus&#8217;s chief executive Xiao Hong and \u200cchief scientist \u2060Ji Yichao \u2060were summoned to a meeting in Beijing with the National Development \u200band Reform Commission (NDRC) this month, the FT said on Wednesday, citing \u200bpeople with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has barred two co-founders of artificial intelligence startup Manus from leaving the country as regulators review whether Meta&#8217;s $2 billion acquisition of the firm violated investment rules, the Financial Times reported. Manus&#8217;s chief executive Xiao Hong and \u200cchief scientist \u2060Ji Yichao \u2060were summoned to a meeting in Beijing with the National Development \u200band Reform Commission (NDRC) this month, the FT said on Wednesday, citing \u200bpeople with knowledge of the matter.<\/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-999454","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\/999454","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=999454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}