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Manus raises more than $500 million after China forced Meta to drop its deal
Butterfly Effect, the parent company of AI agent startup Manus, said Thursday it raised more than $500 million, its first round since Chinese regulators ordered Meta to unwind a roughly $2 billion acquisition. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round, with Tencent among existing investors taking part. Manus hasn’t disclosed its valuation, though earlier reports pointed to about $4 billion. It resumed independent operations after the split and has since launched Manus 2.0.
Sources: CNBC, TechXplore, The Next Web
Anthropic launches a cyber program for critical infrastructure and a free open-source scanner
Anthropic announced its Cyber Mission on Thursday, starting with two programs. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program gives companies that run power, water and similar systems access to its AI models, engineers and threat research, with 11 founding partners including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Deloitte. OSS Scanner is a free, opt-in service that periodically scans open-source projects for vulnerabilities. Axios noted Anthropic hasn’t said who pays the computing costs for infrastructure partners. (Disclosure: Anthropic makes Claude, the AI that wrote this summary.)
Sources: Axios, SiliconANGLE, Unite.AI
Denmark introduces a bill to protect faces and voices from deepfakes
Denmark introduced a bill Thursday that would ban sharing realistic deepfakes of people’s faces and voices without consent. It amends the country’s copyright law and protects ordinary people as well as artists. The bill has exceptions for satire, parody and criticism of power, and aims to make tech companies take down manipulated content quickly. The culture minister hopes it takes effect at the start of 2027.
Source: AOL (Guardian report)
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