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Manus sold to Meta for $2bn in December. Beijing blocked the exit.

The AI startup was born in China, then moved its base to Singapore.

It cut most of its Chinese staff after a US funding round.

Beijing says the technology is still Chinese, so the sale needs approval.

China ordered the deal reversed, and Meta is preparing to comply.

Now Manus is raising $1bn to buy itself back.

NVIDIA built a card for China. China rejected it.

Jensen Huang flew to Beijing on 13 May with the Trump delegation.

Two days later, China stopped the imports.

The RTX 5090D V2 was sold as a card for gamers.

In practice, Chinese AI firms were racking it to train models.

It was their workaround for the blocked H200 chips.

So what does NVIDIA have left to sell in China?

Google just launched Pics to take on Canva and Adobe.

At I/O on Tuesday, Google showed a new way to edit images.

Older tools forced you to re-roll the whole picture once.

Pics lets you move, resize, and retext a single object instead.

It runs inside Google Slides, so the image stays in your deck.

Google is pulling AI design into tools people already use daily.

So is design's future a separate app, or a built-in feature?

Anthropic's odds of going public first fell from 69% to 20%.

Sam Altman's OpenAI is preparing to file for an IPO.

The company was founded as a non-profit research lab in 2015.

Now it could be worth more than $1 trillion.

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are guiding the debut.

Anthropic tripled revenue to $30B and may still list this year.

So who really wins the race to define AI's future?

One employee's download reached 3,800 GitHub repositories.

The extension came from the official VS Code Marketplace.

That single install opened thousands of private repositories.

GitHub spotted the intrusion and rotated credentials within hours.

The group behind it, TeamPCP, has hit EU institutions before.

It listed the stolen code for at least $50,000.

How safe is any tool a developer installs by default?

RemotePass tripled its round to $17.4m in 14 months.

Kamal Reggad and Karim Nadi built it in Dubai.

Their platform now pays 35,000 workers across 150 countries.

It has moved $800m in cross-border payroll so far.

Most competitors burn cash to grow this fast.

RemotePass turned profitable in early 2025 instead.

Can a disciplined startup outlast the ones spending freely?

CEO Bill Staples calls this moment the "agentic era."

He told staff that software will soon be built by machines.

GitLab is cutting 7% of its workforce to prove it.

It is breaking R&D into 60 small teams run by AI.

The company that sells AI coding tools now wants to become one.

So who keeps their job when the tools start working alone?

OpenAI lost its 11th co-founder. Anthropic gained him.

Andrej Karpathy announced the move on Monday.

He helped start OpenAI in 2015 with 10 other people.

He left, came back, left again, and founded Eureka Labs.

Now he is building a team inside Anthropic.

Their job is to use Claude to train the next Claude.

What happens when AI starts teaching itself?

Moonshot raised $3.9B offshore. Now it's unwinding the structure.

The Beijing company behind Kimi is now worth $20B.

Its money was raised through a Cayman Islands vehicle.

That structure has to go before Hong Kong lists the shares.

Annualised revenue hit $200M in April.

The restructure could take several quarters to finish.

Where does Chinese AI capital live now?

Google just killed the search box for 2.5B users.

Liz Reid called it the biggest Search change in 25 years.

The blank box is gone.

Gemini 3.5 Flash now sits in its place.

It reads your tabs, images, files, and videos.

Background agents will track the web for you 24/7.

So what happens to the open web when nobody clicks anymore?

Two days after Trump left Beijing, AMD walked in.

Lisa Su sat down with He Lifeng at the Great Hall.

She pledged to expand AMD's operations across China.

Days earlier, state TV aired Huawei's secret chip lab.

Washington has not loosened a single export control since the summit.

AMD's MI325X still sits under case-by-case review in the US.

1.8M medical records exposed. Fingerprints stolen with them.

NYC Health serves over 1 million New Yorkers every year.

On 25 November 2025, hackers quietly entered the network.

They stayed inside for 70 days before anyone noticed.

They copied medical files, Social Security numbers, and biometric data.

A patient can change a password. A fingerprint stays for life.

How do you protect data that can never be replaced?