China just blocked Meta's $ 2B December acquisition of Manus and told Zuck to unwind the deal. Manus is technically Singapore-incorporated, but its founders, parent company, and offices in Beijing and Wuhan are all Chinese. Awkwardly, the teams are already merged, with Manus
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China Blocks Meta’s Manus Acquisition Deal
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Heads up! CTRL+Z to Meta's acquisition of Manus, after China blocked the deal
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Understanding AI Service Usage and Payment Complexity
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im not compromised (except from myself and my agents) just stupidly fucked how borked and hard it is to understand your own usage and payments.
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Alibaba HappyHorse-1.0 Dominates Video Generation Arena
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HappyHorse-1.0 from Alibaba is here. 🐎💨
— Replicate (@replicate) 27 avril 2026
This surprise 15B-parameter model has claimed the #1 spot on the @ArtificialAnlys Video Arena, outperforming every major lab in text-to-video and image-to-video quality.
It features a unified pipeline for 1080p output with joint audio… pic.twitter.com/pIQI6bBCQZHappyHorse-1.0 from Alibaba is here. This surprise 15B-parameter model has claimed the #1 spot on the @ArtificialAnlys Arena, outperforming every major lab in text-to-video and image-to-video quality. It features a unified pipeline for 1080p output with joint audio
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Microsoft loses exclusive OpenAI IP license, ends payments
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Microsoft's license to OpenAI IP becomes non-exclusive Microsoft and OpenAI just restructured their partnership: OpenAI can now serve its products across any cloud provider, not just Azure, and Microsoft's license to OpenAI IP becomes non-exclusive. Microsoft stops paying
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Cloud Next Conference: AI Infrastructure Discussion with Industry Experts
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The video of my conversation with Amin Vahdat, @gilbert
, and @djrosent at Cloud Next last week is now up. https://
youtu.be/BpnJYJmbXcM?si
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Anthropic Account Support Scaling: Claude vs Human Managers
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This is kinda interesting. Anthro probably needs to scale up Account Support via Claude or via humans (traditional account managers). Would be funny if they chose humans. Alternatively, more and more companies can probably go multi-AI with open harnesses. Similar problems to
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Microsoft Partnership Update: Multi-Cloud AI Strategy Through 2032
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we have updated our partnership with microsoft. microsoft will remain our primary cloud partner, but we are now able to make our products and services available across all clouds. will continue to provide them with models and products until 2032, and a revenue share through
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VisionBanana: Google DeepMind unified vision model beats SAM 3
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9/ VisionBanana (Google DeepMind)—Unified vision model beats SAM 3 on seg/depth. Prompt-only switching, synthetic-trained. arXiv/demo: https://
buff.ly/kGZUiOC