Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on the company’s first‑quarter earnings call that its Superintelligence team is developing AI agents designed to help users achieve personal goals and assist businesses in reaching customers. Built on the recently unveiled Muse Spark model, the agents aim to be more approachable and easier to set up than existing tools such as OpenClaw. While no launch date was given, Zuckerberg emphasized a focus on polish, accessibility and a ready‑made infrastructure that could even be handed to a non‑technical user. Read more →

Meta is preparing to reverse its roughly $2 billion purchase of AI startup Manus after China’s National Development and Reform Commission issued a formal order canceling the transaction. The regulator gave the companies a few weeks to restore Manus’s Chinese assets to their pre‑acquisition state. The move forces Meta to write down a major AI investment and raises questions about how China will treat foreign‑owned tech firms with links to the country. Read more →

China’s National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI firm founded by Chinese engineers and now based in Singapore. The regulator gave no public explanation, demanding the parties pull the deal and imposing exit bans on the startup’s founders. About 100 Manus staff have already moved into Meta’s Singapore offices, and the block threatens Meta’s push into AI agents while raising fresh concerns in Washington about Chinese‑linked technology investments. Read more →

China’s decision to halt Meta’s purchase of AI firm Manus has thrown the deal into limbo, raising fresh uncertainty for both companies’ artificial‑intelligence plans. Manus founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao had already moved most of their staff to Meta’s Singapore office and stripped the startup of Chinese ties. The cancellation could prevent Manus from using Anthropic’s Claude models and marks a setback for Meta’s pivot toward AI after years of investing in the metaverse. Industry observers say the move underscores the growing tech rivalry between Washington and Beijing. Read more →

The S&P 500’s Shiller CAPE ratio now sits at 38‑40, the highest level in 155 years aside from the March 2000 dot‑com peak. While market concentration and lofty valuations echo 2000, leading AI firms such as Nvidia, Microsoft, and Alphabet generate cash at historic rates. Analysts debate whether the AI rally will end in a bust or prove sustainable, hinging on whether the $660‑$690 billion annual hyperscaler capex delivers returns. The outcome will decide if today’s prices look like a bubble or a justified premium for a profitable new wave of technology. Read more →

Meta has agreed to power its expanding artificial‑intelligence services with millions of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graviton processors, the company announced Friday. The ARM‑based CPUs, designed for AI inference tasks, will replace the cloud provider’s previous reliance on competitors such as Google Cloud. The move underscores a broader industry shift toward specialized CPUs for real‑time reasoning, code generation and other agentic workloads, and highlights AWS’s growing portfolio of custom chips, including its Trainium GPU for training and inference. Read more →