Beijing reversed the deal 4 months later and barred the founders from leaving China.
“Beijing ordered Meta to reverse its $2 billion acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, the first publicly confirmed use of China's foreign investment security review to unwind a cross-border AI transaction.”
Manus (announcement Aug 11); CNBC, Bloomberg, TechCrunch (reporting); Morgan Lewis (legal analysis), 11 August 2026
Recorded 17 August 2026. Our ruling means: we tried to break it and could not.
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