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How to Turn a Bad Market Into Your Startup's Biggest Advantage
Startups can succeed in economic downturns by solving urgent problems, as past successes like Airbnb and Uber demonstrate. Internal issues, rather than economic conditions, are often the true challenges facing startups in tough economies. Launching…
Meta buys startup Manus in latest move to advance its artificial intelligence efforts
DETROIT -- Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues an aggressive push to amp up AI offerings across its platforms. The California tech giant declined to disclose financial details of…
What is Manus, the Chinese-founded AI startup Meta is buying for over $2 billion?
Manus is back in the spotlight. The Chinese-founded artificial intelligence startup is being acquired by Meta in a deal reported to be worth more than $2 billion — one of the most high-profile instances of a US tech giant buying an Asian AI…
How a US startup is using AI to stop human trafficking
Human trafficking networks are complex. But for more than a decade, artificial intelligence has helped one Pittsburgh startup unravel the complexity to spot trends that can help rescue victims and even prosecute those responsible for their…
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity
Meet the tech industry's latest perk: nicotine-pouch fridges and vending machines. Nicotine pouches, which have grown in popularity in recent years, including among Wall Street bankers, have become a go-to stimulant for a subset of tech workers who…
Meta Buys AI Agent Startup for $2 Billion, Says It Will Cut All Ties With China
Meta did it again. The social media giant just bought another AI startup. This time, it's the Singapore-based AI agent company Manus. Meta is buying the AI company in a deal worth more than $2 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. It's the…
Meta just bought one of the fastest-growing AI startups you've probably never heard of
In a year defined by companies pouring shocking sums of money into AI, one more deal squeaked in just before 2026. Meta just made a play on Manus, the buzzy Singapore-based company with Chinese roots that turned heads earlier this year when it…
Meta buys Singapore startup Manus in latest move to advance its artificial intelligence efforts
FILE – Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco on March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) DETROIT (AP) — Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook…
Tech startup Hyphen is bringing AI to the lunch line - with help from Cava and Chipotle
Robotics startup Hyphen is attracting support from competitors in the restaurant space. Hyphen's automated makelines solve for an ongoing issue for restaurants in a hyper-competitive environment-- speedy throughput and good customer service. In…
Chinese AI startups beat Silicon Valley to the public markets in a massive IPO wave
Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Hong Kong's stock exchange had its busiest month since November 2019 in December, with at least 25 companies going public, roughly half of them from the technology sector. Chinese AI company Zhipu AI is…
How a San Diego startup's universal flu shot sold for $9 billion
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Inside a single-story brick building in Sorrento Mesa is a small lab sprinkled with beakers, test tubes and incubators that is worth billions of dollars. This is where Cidara, a small San Diego…
Chinese startup Z.ai seeks $560M raise in Hong Kong IPO listing
One of China's largest large language model developers, Z.ai, today filed plans for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It's scheduled to list its shares on Jan. 8 under the ticker “2513,” and claims that by…
Report: Nvidia could acquire LLM startup AI21 Labs for $3B
Nvidia Corp. is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire AI21 Labs Ltd., a startup that develops large language models and agent development tools. Calcalist reported today that a deal could be worth between $2 billion and $3 billion. At the top end…
Meta pays $3 billion for Manus AI after startup cut all Chinese ties to clear regulatory hurdles
Meta is buying Singapore-based AI startup Manus AI for over two billion dollars, according to Bloomberg, with plans to bring the autonomous AI agent technology into Meta AI and across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
5 trends that will shape tech in 2026, according to a Khosla Ventures investor
The year is 2026. Robots enter the home, while white-collar workers pour into the streets to protest artificial intelligence. That's the near future, according to one venture capitalist who's betting heavily on how AI reshapes daily life and work.
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