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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Scaling AI Without Control Creates Business Value Gap
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Everyone thinks they’re scaling AI. Most are just scaling chaos. What I’m seeing, including in conversations with @collibra
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Will Cursor and AI Code Startups Survive Tech Competition?
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People often get excited about the battles between the rich and famous, such as between Elon Musk and Jensen Huang. It may not matter that much in the long run, however. Cursor might just be gone before it matters All these companies such as Cursor and Replit and Lovable are
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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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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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Enterprise AI Shifts From Prompting to Autonomous Agents
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👥 For a while, prompt engineering was treated as the must-have AI skill. Enterprise AI is moving into agents, autonomous systems that chain tasks, make decisions, and act across real workflows.
— Bernard Marr (@BernardMarr) 27 avril 2026
In this video, I explain:
✅ Why prompting matters less as AI becomes agent-driven… pic.twitter.com/vNo9n1YoE5For a while, prompt engineering was treated as the must-have AI skill. Enterprise AI is moving into agents, autonomous systems that chain tasks, make decisions, and act across real workflows. In this video, I explain: Why prompting matters less as AI becomes agent-driven
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AI Value Chain Global Acceleration Accelerates Worldwide
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AI value chain is global and only set to accelerate in velocity
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Advanced Networks Critical for AI Supercycle Success
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Why the AI Supercycle Will Fail Without Advanced Networks AI growth depends on robust infrastructure — without advanced networks, the full potential of AI may never be realised. Read more https://
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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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Leon Panetta on AGI, China, and America’s AI Leadership
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"Whoever leads in AI will rule the world"
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 27 avril 2026
– Vladimir Putin (2017).
Here's what Leon Panetta, former Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense has to say on AGI, China, and if this is America's moment. pic.twitter.com/9GlAlrpIXP"Whoever leads in AI will rule the world" – Vladimir Putin (2017). Here's what Leon Panetta, former Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense has to say on AGI, China, and if this is America's moment.