Top stories in AI today: – Meta acquires Manus for $2B+
– SoftBank completes $40B OpenAI investment
– Design better websites with Cursor’s new editor
– Satya Nadella's AI outlook for 2026
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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Meta Acquires Manus; SoftBank Completes $40B OpenAI Investment
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Waymo predicts bicycle rider; AI predicting your next move in newsletter
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A @waymo predicts the future. It predicts where that bicycle rider will be in a few seconds, then makes its plan accordingly. What if you had an AI that could predict your next move? That's the topic @IrenaCronin and I wrote about in our newsletter this week. Personal time
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Meta acquires Manus, OpenAI seeks preparedness lead, AI hardware advances
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Top stories in tech today: – Meta snaps up AI startup Manus for $2B
– OpenAI hunts ‘head of preparedness’ – Nest co-founder’s Mill snags Whole Foods deal
– Nvidia and Samsung test AI hardware at CES
– Quick hits on other tech news Read more: https://
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OpenAI’s 2025 Ship Cycle: GPT-5 Releases and AI Agents
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OpenAI’s 2025 ship cycle was relentless: GPT-5 (Aug 7), GPT-5.1 + Codex-Max (Nov), GPT-5.2 + GPT-5.2-Codex (Dec), plus new ChatGPT Images (GPT-Image-1.5) with 4x faster, more consistent edits. Agents are the real story. Track the tools and more on Futurepedia.
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AI Content Quality, Claude Tests, and Meta’s Bug Detection Tools
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Top stories in AI today: – 21% of YT videos to new users are “AI slop”
– Phase 2 of Claude’s shopkeeping test
– Automate pre-meeting work with Perplexity
– Meta's AI finds and fixes its own bugs
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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Meta Acquires Manus AI Agent Startup in Major Deal
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BREAKING: Meta Acquires Manus—AI Agent Game Changer Meta has officially acquired Manus, a Singapore-based AI agent startup, marking its 3rd largest acquisition ever (after WhatsApp & Scale AI). The deal, announced Dec 29th, adds a major asset: Manus reached $100M ARR in
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Meta acquires Manus in year-end technology acquisition
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OJO Ahora es Meta la que saca la billetera para adquirir Manus! Vaya compras de última hora para cerrar el año
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Meta’s Manus AI scores 2.5% on Remote Labor Index
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Manus AI, acquired by Meta, is a current SOTA with a 2.5% achievement on the "Remote Labor Index" benchmark (Introduced by Meta). The Remote Labor Index measures AI automation of remote work. Soon to know how much 2.5% is worth
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Robert Scoble interviews Leon Ming about Chinese AI competition
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The AI competition from the Chinese side of the fence.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 29 décembre 2025
Leon Ming, @LEON_0xx0, cofounder of @youware joins me for a long conversation about what's happening in China (he is one of the top entreprenurs there, and also was a cofounder of @capcutapp, among others).
YouWare is one… pic.twitter.com/A2dqyuBsU6The AI competition from the Chinese side of the fence. Leon Ming, @LEON_0xx0, cofounder of @youware joins me for a long conversation about what's happening in China (he is one of the top entreprenurs there, and also was a cofounder of @capcutapp
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Meta acquires AI company to become agentic
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Another interesting AI company gets acquired. Well now we know how Meta will turn agentic.