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Meta's $2B Deal to Buy AI Startup Manus Blocked by China

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/04/27/china-blocks-metas-2-billion-acquisition-of-ai-startup-manus/
4•davidgomes•1h ago

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mockbolt•1h ago
not surprising tbh

AI is now national asset level, not just startup acquisition

- US blocks chips - China blocks acquisitions

both sides protecting models + talent + data

cross-border AI deals will only get harder from here

Hybrid calculation of hadronic vacuum polarization in muon g − 2 to 0.48%

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10449-z
1•bookofjoe•34s ago•0 comments

It's the Age of Electricity and America Isn't Ready

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/27/opinion/electricity-power-grid-infrastructure.html
1•JumpCrisscross•53s ago•0 comments

China blocks Meta's $2B acquisition of AI startup Manus

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0v0gr2yz7o
1•SimplyUseless•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: YubiClicker, a clicker game that requires a physical security key

https://yubiclicker.com/
1•k3wl•1m ago•0 comments

Loopix – Film camera for iPhone, source available (noncommercial)

https://github.com/ts-ign0re/loopix
1•palooka•3m ago•0 comments

How to Block Google Groups Spam Using Rspamd

https://mailmum.io/posts/howto-block-google-groups-spam-in-rspamd/
1•fa11enangel•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gnosis, a knowledge base for what the code can't tell you

https://github.com/skorokithakis/gnosis
2•stavros•4m ago•0 comments

We Will Be Driving Autonomously Long Before Any AI Is Liable for Generated Code

https://qameta.com/posts/ai-liability-vs-autonomous-driving/
1•fa11enangel•4m ago•0 comments

AI's Feeding Frenzy Killed My Sites (2023)

https://thessdguy.com/ais-feeding-frenzy-killed-my-sites/
2•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

You suck at dating apps because you're straight

https://viverricious.substack.com/p/you-suck-at-dating-apps-because-youre
2•eatitraw•6m ago•0 comments

The Work Worth Doing

https://nik.art/the-work-worth-doing/
1•herbertl•7m ago•0 comments

Techno-Optimism Archive

https://technooptimism.org/
1•pmm•7m ago•1 comments

We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/we-still-dont-have-a-more-precise-value-for-big-g/
1•rbanffy•8m ago•0 comments

Output Isn't Design

https://linear.app/now/output-isn-t-design
1•julian_digital•10m ago•0 comments

We Are Not Language Machines

https://www.shishyko.com/essays/we-are-not-language-machines.html
1•shishy•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Groundtruth – Stop hook that blocks Claude Code from saying done

https://github.com/vnmoorthy/groundtruth
1•vnmoorthy•10m ago•0 comments

FTWA – Free the Web Apps

https://ftwa.mathix.dev/why/
1•mathix•11m ago•0 comments

Creation of Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7178238
1•colinprince•12m ago•0 comments

AI gives back more equality than it takes away

3•Bashkiroff•15m ago•2 comments

The 2 Hour [Marathon] barrier has been smashed

https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-2-hour-barrier-has-been-smashed
2•lordleft•16m ago•0 comments

A Tiny Polish Startup Became the Multi-Billion-Dollar Voice of AI

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/12/01/how-a-tiny-polish-startup-became-the-multi-bil...
3•Anon84•17m ago•0 comments

Running DOS and Unix on an 8-bit Commodore (2024) [video]

https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2334-running-dos-unix-on-an-8-bit-comm...
4•michalpleban•19m ago•0 comments

17th-century astrolabe heads to London sale with £2.5M estimate

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/17th-century-jaipur-astrolabe-heads-to-london-sale-with-25m-...
3•geox•20m ago•0 comments

AI apathy is a tragedy, falling behind is a crime

https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar-18/
2•7777777phil•21m ago•0 comments

Maybe you should learn something

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/
2•ingve•23m ago•0 comments

Supabase Feature Preview: RLS Tester

https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/45233
2•siegers•26m ago•0 comments

On the LOC Controversy

https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/blob/main/docs/ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY.md
2•tie-in•26m ago•0 comments

China orders Meta to unwind $2B buy of AI startup Manus

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-blocks-foreign-acquisition-ai-startup-manus-2026...
3•kilroy123•27m ago•1 comments

Make Europe the Electro Union

https://www.norrsken.org/goodnews/make-europe-the-electro-union
2•imartin2k•27m ago•0 comments

Why QVC's Operational Excellence Became Its Undoing

https://gadallon.substack.com/p/the-inflexible-stack-why-qvcs-operational
3•JumpCrisscross•30m ago•0 comments