August 16, 2026

Meta has cut Manus off from its internal systems and told staff to sunset the AI platform

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Meta has erected a data firewall between itself and Manus, the Chinese-founded agentic AI service it acquired for $2 billion in December 2025. Since the start of June, Manus and its staff have been barred from accessing Meta’s internal data systems,...