Manus will return to operating as an independent company

Anyone have info on whose regulatory restrictions they are referring to?

kristianc a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Almost certainly Chinese national-security and technology-transfer restrictions around strategic AI tech. China’s NDRC formally prohibited the acquisition and ordered the transaction unwound.

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minraws 2 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would guess EU? Technically a bunch of countries don't allow data to be with Manus aka Chinese cloud services.

For instance, India has quite literally banned Alibaba Cloud and related.

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rangestransform 2 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

China prevented the founders from leaving the country

	▲	minraws a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		I think they were talking about the part, > As part of our transition back to independent operations and to comply with regulatory requirements in specific jurisdictions, data generated by certain users on/after December 29, 2025, will be deleted from 8:00 a.m. on August 23 through August 24, 2026 (SGT). Affected users will be able to back up their data from now until 7:59 a.m. on August 23, 2026 (SGT) and restore it starting from 8:00 a.m. on August 25, 2026 (SGT).