Meta Buys Manus AI for $2B, China Enforces AI Safety Rules
TL;DR
* Meta acquires Manus AI for $2 billion, integrating 147T-token AI agent platform with 80M virtual computers into its ecosystem
* MiniMax releases M2.1 model with 42.8% HLE benchmark improvement, surpassing GPT-5 on mathematical reasoning tasks
* China drafts AI rules requiring emotional chatbots to disclose bot identity, ban