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Manus Is Back. The $2 Billion Meta Deal Isn't.

Eight months after Meta bought Manus for $2 billion, China killed the deal. Now the AI agent startup is going independent again — and the whole saga is a warning label for cross-border AI.

The Jevons Paradox in AI: Why Cheaper Tokens Are Burning Bigger Budgets

As inference costs plummet, AI usage is exploding. The economic principle from 1865 explains why your AI bill keeps going up, not down.

Anthropic's Claude Can Now Use Your Computer. Should You Let It?

Computer use is the most hyped feature of 2026. We tested it across 50 real tasks — here's what actually works, what breaks, and what's genuinely dangerous.

Open Source AI Is Winning on Price. Not on Quality.

Llama, Mistral, and DeepSeek are undercutting closed models by 10x. But benchmark scores tell only part of the story.

Why Every AI Agent Framework Keeps Reinventing the Same Wheel

LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK — they all solve the same problem differently, and none of them solve it well enough.

The EU AI Act Is Now Enforceable. Almost No One Is Ready.

August 2026 marks the first compliance deadline. We break down what's actually required, what's ambiguous, and what companies are doing about it.

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