China blocks Meta's $2B Manus deal

TechCrunch

China blocked Meta's $2-3 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus despite the company relocating to Singapore, creating a complex unwinding process as 100+ employees have already integrated into Meta offices and founders face exit bans from China.

OpenAI

OpenAI open-sourced Symphony, an orchestration system that connects Codex coding agents to Linear issue trackers, enabling autonomous task completion and resulting in a 500% PR increase for some teams by eliminating human context-switching bottlenecks.

OpenAI

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 represents a major leap in agentic AI, excelling at autonomous coding, computer use, and scientific research while maintaining fast inference speeds through co-design with NVIDIA GB200/GB300 systems. The company deployed strengthened cybersecurity safeguards and introduced Trusted Access programs to balance capability democratization with responsible deployment.

Wall Street Journal

OpenAI missed key user and revenue targets, raising doubts about its ability to sustain massive infrastructure spending and threatening its path to a planned IPO, prompting the company to implement cost controls.

CNBC

China blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup with Chinese roots, marking an escalation in U.S.-China tech tensions and undermining the 'Singapore-washing' strategy used by Chinese AI companies to avoid regulatory scrutiny.