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Meta has acquired Manus, a fast-rising AI startup based in Singapore with Chinese founders, in a deal valued at more than $2 billion. Finalized in late December 2025, the deal will bring Manus’ advanced AI agent technology under Meta’s AI umbrella to supercharge its push into developing Agentic AI, which are systems that act autonomously on complex tasks. Manus’ CEO Xiao Hong will report directly to Meta’s COO Javier Olivan, while the startup’s operations will continue from Singapore. What Manus Brings to the Meta’s Table Manus has built a reputation for creating AI agents that can navigate multiple software platforms…

Google has announced it will fully discontinue its Dark Web Report feature by February 2026, pulling the plug on a service that once promised to alert users when their personal information appeared in illicit online marketplaces. The decision comes after increasing complaints on the tool’s effectiveness and growing questions about whether the tech giant was actually delivering meaningful security protection or simply repackaging existing threat intelligence. The dark web report service, which was initially launched as part of Google One’s premium subscription tier in 2023, was designed to scan hidden corners of the internet for compromised credentials, Social Security numbers,…

Samsung Electronics is preparing to double manufacturing of its smartphones and tablets powered by Google’s Gemini AI starting in 2026, moving from 400 million units to 800 million units. The South Korean tech giant confirmed the partnership during its annual investor briefing last week, revealing plans to embed Google’s multimodal AI platform across its flagship Galaxy lineup by the second quarter of this year. The collaboration represents a departure from Samsung’s previous AI strategy, which relied heavily on its own Bixby assistant and proprietary machine learning tools. Under the new agreement, Google’s Gemini will handle complex tasks like real-time language…

CES 2026 recently wrapped up in Las Vegas with a major highlight on next-generation AI and robotics innovations across consumer, industrial, and mobility sectors. The event featured over 4,100 exhibitors and had over 148,000 people in attendance. The Consumer Electronics Show always sets the tone for tech’s next chapter and this year’s event showcased companies’ renewed focus on integration with AI that extends beyond prototypes into factories, homes, cars, and hospitals. AI Powers Smarter Hardware Nvidia announced the Rubin architecture, a next-gen GPU system designed as an upgrade to the former Blackwell architecture and for massive AI training and inference,…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become an unexpected primary care provider for millions of people worldwide, according to a recent report that reveals approximately 40 million users turn to the AI-powered chatbot each day for medical guidance, ranging from symptom checks and medication questions to mental health support and even health insurance navigation. The scale is staggering as these daily consultations rival the total number of doctor visits happening across entire healthcare systems in the world. The scale also reflects a pandemic of inaccessibility to modern healthcare, especially in the U.S. For instance, emergency room wait times continue to stretch for hours,…

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) took to the CES 2026 stage to reveal a broad lineup of AI-optimized processors and platforms, from consumer laptops/PCs to data centers. The lineup, delivered by CEO Lisa Su, included the new Ryzen AI 400 Series, Instinct MI455X GPUs, and developer tools like Ryzen AI Halo, which were all designed to deliver superior performance in AI workloads. As such, these AI products directly position AMD as a direct rival to Nvidia’s stronghold in building AI hardware, especially with the company’s recent announcement of its Vera Rubin AI platform. AMD’s Ryzen AI 400 Series processors lead the…

Nvidia recently unveiled its next-generation Vera Rubin AI platform during CES 2026, positioning it as a comprehensive solution to address the skyrocketing computational demands of advanced artificial intelligence systems. The Vera Rubin AI platform, named after the astronomer Vera Florence Cooper Rubin, ushers in a significant architectural evolution, as it introduces six custom-engineered chips designed to work together as a unified AI supercomputing system. This development comes amid a critical moment in the industry, where models are growing exponentially larger, becoming more reasoning-intensive as each day goes by, and demanding massive infrastructure that can handle trillions of parameters. Vera Rubin…

Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) pose a growing challenge to Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware through its production of superior efficiency in large-scale workloads and massive planned deployments. What this means is while Nvidia still maintains over 90% market share in GPUs used in data centers thanks to its CUDA ecosystem, Google’s custom-developed TPUs specifically excel in cost-optimized training and inference – something the AI industry desperately needs and is jumping at. In other words, the shift marks an important reshaping of the AI infrastructure market, where cost efficiency and specialized performance are beginning to trump the software ecosystem advantages…

Nvidia aims to start shipping its high-end H200 AI chips to China by mid-February right before the Lunar New Year holiday, according to sources familiar with the matter as told to Reuters. This development comes after President Donald Trump granted export permission in December, marking a notable turn in the ongoing restrictions on U.S.-produced advanced semiconductor sales to China, although this particular shipment comes with a 25% fee. The U.S.-based chipmaker says the initial batch of these chip shipments may include 5,000 to 10,000 modules, which is equivalent to 40,000 to 80,000 of the company’s H200 AI chips. However, all…

Cisco is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Axonius for approximately $2 billion, according to a report by Calcalist. This deal would represent Cisco’s latest move in its aggressive shift from building networking hardware toward software-driven security solutions, building on the momentum from its landmark $28 billion acquisition of Splunk in March 2024. Axonius has publicly denied that they are not “in talks to be acquired by Cisco.” “Our strategy is to build a durable, independent company. We are focused on execution, serving our customers, and continuing our growth. That is where our attention is,” the company…