FILE – A Meta logo is shown on a video screen at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference, in Menlo Park, Calif., April 29, 2025. Jeff Chiu/AP/AP
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HONG KONG — China on Monday blocked U.S. tech giant Meta’s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, in an unexpected move to reverse a deal that apparently aroused Beijing’s concerns about the transfer of advanced technology.
In a one-line statement, China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top planning agency, said it was prohibiting a foreign acquisition of Manus and had required all the parties to withdraw from the