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Potential investors include IDG Capital, Boyu Capital and CATL alongside existing backers Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund. Meta agreed to pay about $2B in December 2025 in a deal the NDRC blocked on national security grounds in April 2026. Manus is also reported to be weighing a restructuring ahead of a Hong Kong IPO. TechCrunch
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The Natrium design delivers 345 MW baseload and ramps to 500 MW for over five hours using integrated molten salt thermal storage, roughly 45% above baseload without burning more fuel. That load-following profile is what datacenter operators actually need, and it's the pitch be...
Co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners with Mubadala Capital participating, against the $10B valuation from its $1.38B round last October, and following a $13B five-year GPU cloud contract with Jane Street. Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI are all customers. TechCrunch
The FT reported Chloé Bakalar departed after joining in August 2025, under a year, with no announcement and no plans to fill the role (FT). She came from Meta, where she was Chief Ethicist from November 2021 to August 2025, and worked on model development ethics, human-AI inte...
Meta confirmed a flaw in its AI-assisted account-recovery chatbot let attackers hijack at least 20,225 accounts between April 17 and early June. Ask the bot to change an account's email, and it fired a password-reset link to an unverified address. Meta only noticed on May 31 a...
Expands prior $3B November 2025 contract by 9x. First large-scale Vera Rubin NVL72 buildout. Meta simultaneously plans 20% workforce reduction (~15,800 positions) to fund $135B AI capex. Nebius TechCrunch
Hard deadline. Back up by 07:59 SGT on August 23, 2026, or lose it. Manus posted on August 11 that it will "soon return to operating as an independent company," reversing the Meta acquisition that closed December 29, 2025, citing regulatory requirements in specific jurisdictio...
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