Meta Begins Unwinding Manus Deal as Founder Seeks $1B Buyback
INSIDE 硬塞 AI2 days agoRegulationMeta is moving into the execution phase of unwinding its $2 billion acquisition of Manus after a Chinese regulatory order. The companies have reportedly completed an operational separation and stopped sharing data. Manus’s founding team is now seeking to raise $1 billion to buy back the company, in what the article describes as China’s first forced breakup of a completed cross-border transaction.
2026 FusionNext: How Enterprises Turn Cloud Data Foundations into AI ROI
INSIDE 硬塞 AI3 days agoBusinessINSIDE’s sponsored recap of 2026 FusionNext, hosted by CloudMile, frames generative AI as a business execution challenge rather than a model-shopping exercise. Speakers from CloudMile, Google Cloud, Taiwan AI Academy, and enterprise customers emphasized data silos, governance, security, and cloud modernization as prerequisites for scalable AI agents. Case studies across healthcare, manufacturing, retail, media, gaming, and infrastructure positioned AI monetization as a long-term systems project built on reliable data and cross-functional sponsorship.
Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with business context
TechCrunch AI4 days agoBusinessJedify raised a $24 million Series A led by Norwest, with Snowflake Ventures joining as a strategic investor. The startup connects to enterprise data, SaaS, BI, documents, Slack, and meeting records to build real-time context graphs for AI agents. Its pitch is that agents need company-specific context, permissions, workflows, and terminology to act usefully inside large organizations.
Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
Hacker News (AI keywords)12 days agoNew ToolMicrosoft unveiled Scout at Build as a new “autopilot” agent for Microsoft 365. It can connect across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, use an Entra identity, and interact with external apps through MCP. The release is experimental for Frontier customers, with security controls required. Analysts warn Scout may amplify existing governance problems because it can act on data, not merely surface it.
Is Your Data in Taiwan? Cross-Border Transfer Risks in Asia-Pacific Data Deployment
INSIDE 硬塞 AI16 days agoCommentaryUsing the Grab acquisition debate as context, the article says offshore data storage is now normal for digital services. The real issue is not whether data stays in Taiwan, but whether the storage jurisdiction has strong legal protections, oversight, and remedies. Singapore is presented as a case worth examining for Asia-Pacific data deployment and cross-border transfer risk assessment.