artificial intelligence

Last month, China blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Chinese-founded, Singapore-based AI startup. The timing is not incidental. At the peak of US-China AI competition, breakthrough technologies are no longer just commercial assets; they are instruments of national strategy. There is no longer a purely commercial decision for tech companies in the age of cross-border AI. The new reality dictates that tech companies need to reconcile the fact that geopolitics and tech development are inextricab
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