China deepens probe into Meta’s landmark US$2 billion buyout of Singapore-based Manus

China deepens probe into Meta’s landmark US billion buyout of Singapore-based Manus

Published Sat, Jan 24, 2026 · 11:11 AM BEIJING is deepening an investigation into Meta Platforms’ US$2 billion acquisition of Chinese-founded artificial intelligence (AI) startup Manus, raising the risk that regulators will seek to alter or even unwind the deal if wrongdoing is found. Chinese officials had begun looking into whether the December takeover of…

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Kim Kardashian Reveals the Names Her Kids Gave Their 4 Dogs

Kim Kardashian Reveals the Names Her Kids Gave Their 4 Dogs

As for Kim, she’s been candid about the challenges she’s faced picking out names before—not for her pets, but, more importantly, for her children. “North took me, like, a week to name her,” Kim shared in a fan Q&A in 2020. “Not a week, but, like, four or five days. I actually got it from…

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BlackRock cuts value of private debt fund by 19%, waives fee

BlackRock cuts value of private debt fund by 19%, waives fee

Published Sat, Jan 24, 2026 · 08:49 AM A BLACKROCK private debt fund expects to mark down the net value of its assets 19 per cent after a string of troubled loans weighed on results, marking the latest sign of pressure in the private credit market. BlackRock TCP Capital, a publicly traded middle-market lending fund,…

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Grimes Makes Wild Confession About Her and Elon Musk’s Kids

Grimes Makes Wild Confession About Her and Elon Musk’s Kids

Exa Dark Sideræl Musk & Techno Mechanicus Musk (Kids) In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy. “Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fear it but…

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Ezra Sosa Details His “Breakdown” on Dancing With the Stars Tour Opening Night

Ezra Sosa Details His “Breakdown” on Dancing With the Stars Tour Opening Night

Ezra Sosa is still finding his rhythm. The Dancing With the Stars pro got vulnerable in a TikTok on Jan. 23, sharing that he had a “breakdown” during the tour’s opening show in Akron, Ohio the night before. Posting a video of himself shaking his head and putting his face in his palm, Ezra, 25, wrote, “having a breakdown during intermission because…

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Why Sophie Turner Doesn’t Want to Watch Game of Thrones Spinoff Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Why Sophie Turner Doesn’t Want to Watch Game of Thrones Spinoff Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Game of Thrones‘ premiere episode on April 17, 2011, was visually stunning and wildly intriguing—and it wasn’t the original $10 million pilot that was shot to suck you into the world of Westeros. Actor-filmmaker Tom McCarthy, who had previously directed Dinklage in The Station Agent and went on to make the 2016 Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight,…

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Autodesk to cut 1,000 workers as the tech company bets on AI

Autodesk to cut 1,000 workers as the tech company bets on AI

Software company Autodesk is slashing roughly 1,000 roles, representing a 7% cut of its global workforce. The San Francisco company, which makes software used by architects, designers and engineers, told its employees Thursday that “strategic shifts,” including its focus on expanding its leadership in artificial intelligence, fueled its latest round of cuts. Workers in “customer-facing…

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