{"id":223057,"date":"2026-01-08T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:41:08","slug":"china-to-assess-investigate-metas-acquisition-of-ai-startup-manus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223057\/","title":{"rendered":"China to assess, investigate Meta&#8217;s acquisition of AI startup Manus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">BEIJING, Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; China will assess \u200band investigate Meta&#8217;s \u200cacquisition of <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> startup \u200cManus, the Chinese commerce ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Companies engaging in \u2060activities such \u200cas foreign investment, technology exports, data \u200dtransfers abroad and acquisitions must comply with Chinese \u200blaws and regulations, \u200cministry spokesperson He Yadong said at a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The ministry will work with relevant \u2060departments to conduct \u200ban assessment \u200band investigation into the consistency of this \u200dacquisition \u2060with laws and regulations, He said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by \u2060Joe Cash and Jing \u200cXu; Editing by \u200cJacqueline Wong)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING, Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; China will assess \u200band investigate Meta&#8217;s \u200cacquisition of artificial intelligence startup \u200cManus, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[14837,365,363,364,607,41626,133696,65669,111,139,69,145,133695],"class_list":["post-223057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-acquisition","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-commerce-ministry","tag-data-transfers","tag-foreign-investment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-technology-exports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}