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Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+; Manus was raising at a $2B valuation when Meta approached it; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Meta COO Javier Olivan — The deal for more than $2 billion is one of the first in which a major U.S. tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which makes an AI agent for SMBs; Manus said earlier in December its annual revenue run rate was $125M+ — Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to buy Manus, a popular Singapore-based artificial intelligence agent with Chinese roots …
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Meta just bought into the enterprise market with its Manus deal, which may eventually help it expand into cloud offerings like those of its Big Tech peers — Between Apple and Meta, I think it was a pretty close call in terms of which Big Tech company had the worse 2025 when it came to AI.| Meta: |
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Sources: SoftBank has completed its $40B investment in OpenAI — SoftBank has completed its $40 billion investment commitment to OpenAI, sources told CNBC's David Faber. — The Japanese investment giant sent over a final $22 billion to $22.5 billion last week, according to sources familiar …
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| Osmond Chia / BBC: |
China's draft AI rules have measures to protect kids, like time limits and parental consent, ban gambling promotion content, and add suicide chats restrictions — China has proposed strict new rules for artificial intelligence (AI) to provide safeguards for children and prevent chatbots …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks — Two former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint have pleaded guilty to targeting U.S. companies …
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| Zak Killian / Tom's Hardware: |
IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply — Memory shortages are expected to have a serious impact on the PC and smartphone market. … The International Data Corporation …
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing AI competition from Amazon and Google; Microsoft Deputy CTO Dee Templeton says Nadella is in “founder mode” — Software giant faces intense competition from Alphabet, Amazon and start-ups — Satya Nadella has overhauled …
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Sources: Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based AI21, which is building its own LLMs, for $2B to $3B; the deal would resemble an acquihire — EXCLUSIVE: The move would mark Nvidia's fourth major Israeli purchase and signal the limits of Israel's LLM ambitions.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, in a rule that is not publicly documented — China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, three people familiar with the matter said …
More: Tom's Hardware, The Information, Benzinga, and DigiTimes
| Themis Qi / South China Morning Post: |
Zhipu AI launches a share sale to raise ~$560M in a Hong Kong IPO at a valuation of ~$6.6B, which would make it the first LLM developer listed in Hong Kong — The company, marketed overseas as Z.ai, eyes US$6.6 billion valuation with Hong Kong's first large language model listing
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Review of Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold: sturdy but poor camera performance and has some unique design flaws that make it even less polished than regular foldables — Review: The $2,500 Galaxy Z TriFold is pricier than other foldables and also less polished. — Nearly seven years in …
More: Forbes, Mashable, and Tom's Guide
| Natallie Rocha / New York Times: |
Sources, PitchBook data, and news reports show the AI boom has produced new billionaires from smaller startups, including Perplexity, Figure AI, and SSI — Just like past tech booms, the latest frenzy has produced a group of billionaires — at least on paper — from smaller start-ups.
More: The Indian Express and The Straits Times
| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Sources: the US has granted an annual license to Samsung and SK Hynix to ship their chip manufacturing equipment to their facilities in China for 2026 — The U.S. government has granted an annual licence to Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (000660.KS) to bring in chip manufacturing equipment … | Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% gain in South Korea's Kospi, the world's best-performing major stock index in 2025 — South Korea's stock market renaissance in 2025 was one for the history books. Buoyed by world-beating gains in arms exporters … Sponsor Posts
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