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Meta has ordered its employees to stop using Manus tools for internal projects and is blocking the Singapore-based firm's staff from accessing the Facebook parent company's internal data systems from this month. The operational split comes as Manus and Meta move to comply with Chinese regulators' demands to reverse the deal, which CNBC says has become a test case for how far Beijing will go to safeguard its strategic technology and talent. Bloomberg observes that Meta’s landmark acquisition of Manus, which was initially celebrated as a blueprint for Chinese AI startups keen to expand on a global stage, quickly drew criticism for handing over key technology to a geopolitical rival.
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EU regulators have hit out at Apple for blaming the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for its decision not to launch its upgraded assistant Siri AI in the region for now, saying they had rejected the company's request for an 18-month exemption from the act's obligations. "The decision not to roll out Siri AI in the EU is Apple's and Apple's only," spokesperson Thomas Regnier said, observing there was nothing in the DMA to stop the company from introducing new products in the EU. "Apple was simply unable to develop interoperability solutions that meet essential EU privacy and security standards," Regnier said. "In essence, [the] commission [is] asking us to conduct a very risky experiment on many, many, many tens of millions of users," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's marketing chief, "and we only want to ship these capabilities when we can do so safely."
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