Meta tried to buy Manus for more than two billion dollars. Beijing said no. Now the agent startup has raised more than $500 million on its own terms, and the message to every founder with a hot model is clear: independence is suddenly a fundable strategy.
On Sunday, Russia's Yandex confirmed that a Ukrainian drone attack forced the complete shutdown of its data center in the Vladimir region — the third Yandex facility taken out of action in four days. A strike on October 7 and 8 shut down the Sasovo hub, which houses two of the three supercomputers Yandex uses to train its AI models; on Friday, the Kaluga region site was partly disabled. Yandex — often called Russia's Google and a central player in the country's AI development — said no one was injured but acknowledged some services are unavailable.
On Saturday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X what reads like a blueprint for how companies should handle advanced AI from here on: treat powerful models as potential insider threats, assume a model is compromised, and contain it from the start. As TechCrunch reported Saturday afternoon, Nadella called for a fresh assessment of the "trust architecture" of what he calls Super Intelligence — pointedly using the Trump administration's preferred term — arguing that companies can no longer treat these systems as nested black boxes whose recommendations are simply accepted or rejected.
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