Yea, it doesn’t matter if they “legally” moved their HQ to Singapore and cut ties with China before the acquisition. Also doesn’t matter if they were based in Singapore. The Chinese government summoned them back for questioning and hit them with an exit ban.
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Space Data Centers: Bold New Direction for AI Infrastructure
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one of the boldest ideas in ai infra right now: data centers in space excited to have @philipjohnston
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Google Completes Fucked SEO Update; Google Sites Still Active
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The "Fucked SEO" update is done. It was fast. mhmm "google sites" is still alive
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Energy and Efficiency: Key Breakthroughs for Industrial-Scale Intelligence
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The two constraints to Industrial-scale Intelligence are energy and efficiency!
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 25 mars 2026
Solving here, massively, for the latter. A big breakthrough @GoogleResearch. https://t.co/eiT2MLoWzBThe two constraints to Industrial-scale Intelligence are energy and efficiency! Solving here, massively, for the latter. A big breakthrough @GoogleResearch
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Trump’s PCAST lacks diversity, dominated by tech industry interests
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Looking at the newly announced PCAST, a few things stand out: — This group is heavily concentrated in AI and adjacent emerging tech like AI, crypto, semiconductor exports, data centers, etc. It’s also just 2 women and 11 men. — Most members have clear financial interests in the policy outcomes they’ll be advising on. Many are also very friendly to the administration and against regulation. — Members’ companies are among the most prominent tech firms to be targeted with future regulations. — By comparison, PCASTs under Obama and Biden were generally filled with academics, research scientists, university leaders, physicians, and others alongside some corporate execs. Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) Trump announces a "Council of Advisors on Science and Technology" led by Sacks and Kratsios, with members including Ellison, Huang, Zuckerberg, Dell, Brin. — https://nitter.net/josh_wingrove/status/2036795154992926900#m
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Meta’s $700B AI Investment Fails to Produce Competitive Models
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I did a calculation. Meta invested ~700b in AI overall. ScaleAI acqui-hire ~$14.3
Manus accquisition ~$2-3b
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Chinese AI Founders Face Exit Bans After Meta Acquisition
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Manus was founded by Chinese engineers who relocated HQ from China to Singapore in 2025, then sold to Meta. They were summoned back to Beijing and hit with exit bans. Not a good signal for other Chinese founders and tech talent overseas with same aspirations.
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Apple’s Siri: Decades of Consistent Quality and Innovation
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I love to dunk on Apple, and Siri in particular, as much as the next guy, but I absolutely admire and respect the level of *consistent* quality and improvements that they’ve been able to pull off over the course of several decades. Absolutely unheard of in the tech world. They
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Meta convicted of endangering children, Zuckerberg joins Trump AI panel
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The day after a jury convicts Meta of illegally endangering children, Trump puts Mark Zuckerberg on a panel overseeing AI regulation.
→ View original post on X — @martyswant, 2026-03-25 13:30 UTC
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AI Royalty: Risk of European Competitiveness Loss
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Arthur Mensch proposes a royalty on AI actors to compensate creators and secure model training in Europe. Understandable intention. But you don't become competitive by making AI more expensive. The real risk is encouraging dominant players to cut off our access. [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @alex_tsico, 2026-03-25 11:22 UTC