LangChain revealed that four independent teams building AI coding and research agents — including Claude Code, Manus, and OpenAI Deep Research — all converged on the same underlying architecture witho…
Markdown files are a legitimate pattern for agent memory in single-agent, single-user scenarios, but the approach breaks at scale, under concurrent agents, and as facts change and errors compound. Com…
Chinese investors including HSG, ZhenFund, and Tencent are in talks to buy back AI startup Manus from Meta for $2 billion, the same price Meta paid six months ago, after Beijing mandated the deal's un…
Original investors in Manus, an AI firm, plan to buy back the company from Meta for $2 billion, according to a report. The deal would reverse Meta's acquisition of the startup and return it to indepen…
Meta has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Chinese AI startup Manus, cutting off data sharing and access to internal systems, after Beijing ordered a divestiture on national security gro…
Meta is developing three new modes for its Meta AI web assistant: Deep Research, Presentation, and Social. The Deep Research mode will search the web and return structured summaries, the Presentation …
Meta Platforms has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Manus after Chinese authorities ordered the deal reversed in April, according to CNBC and Bloomberg. Meta completed an operational sp…
Product builder and newsletter author Lenny Rachitsky released the second installment of his curated book recommendations, featuring 24 titles organized by professional and personal development goals.…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is stepping down from Microsoft's board of directors after nearly a decade to focus on Manus, his AI-powered drug discovery startup. The company, which has raised over…
Vibe coding, the practice of using plain English to prompt AI to write code and build apps, has exploded in popularity in 2026, with tech CEOs, retirees, and even children participating. Business Insi…
Benchmark has closed $2bn across two new funds, including a $1.25bn growth fund, its first dedicated to later-stage investments, alongside a $750m early-stage vehicle. The move breaks the firm's long-…
Kolega built 24 apps across three AI coding platforms — Lovable, Replit, and Manus — using default settings and no manual hardening, then scanned all codebases for vulnerabilities. The experiment foun…
Similarweb and Manus are collaborating to integrate Similarweb's web traffic and engagement data into the Manus AI agent platform, enabling customers to assign agents tasks such as creating marketing …
Meta is launching a subscription service called Meta One, offering ad-free access to Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp starting at $7.99 per month, bundled with expanded AI features. The move comes as…
China has expanded travel restrictions to include top AI researchers and executives at private firms, requiring government approval before they can leave the country. The measures, which intensified a…
Lenny Rachitsky, author of the "Lenny's Newsletter," has curated a list of 36 essential books for product builders, organized by specific development goals such as improving communication and executio…
The execution environment for AI agents is a critical architectural decision that determines data access, security, and scalability. It compares three main approaches: cloud sandboxes (isolated VMs id…
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin announced the company's pivot from human development environments to AI sandboxes, positioning its infrastructure as the "end of localhost" for AI agents. The company now prov…
BotWork is a peer-to-peer freelance network created by developer Andrey, where humans and AI agents can hire each other through an open-source SDK. The protocol runs on a Mac Mini and uses on-chain es…
New link-in-bio product called Belink in just one month using the AI tool Manus, significantly faster than previous projects. As a result, the author decided to consolidate their two older AI logo mak…