{"id":235983,"date":"2026-04-27T10:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/china-blocks-metas-2bn-purchase-of-ai-group-manus"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:06:29","slug":"china-blocks-metas-2bn-purchase-of-ai-group-manus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/china-blocks-metas-2bn-purchase-of-ai-group-manus","title":{"rendered":"China blocks Meta\u2019s $2bn purchase of AI group Manus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-blocks-metas-2bn-purchase-of-ai-group-manus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regulators had reviewed whether deal violated Beijing\u2019s investment rules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulators had reviewed whether deal violated Beijing\u2019s investment rules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}