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Meta Paid $3 Billion for a Chinese AI Agent. Both Governments Want to Kill the Deal. (mothasa.substack.com)
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Meta acquired Butterfly Effect (Manus) for ~$3B. US Treasury investigating the VC. China investigating export controls. The agent runs on Anthropic Claude โ€” a competitor's model.

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[โ€“] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 1 points 23 hours ago

You say "both governments". I think this is inadvertently accurate since Meta is basically it's "own government" at that level of power.