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It also highlights the growing interest in world models as a path to physical-world AI and robotics. Other stories include China blocking Meta's $2B acquisition of AI startup Manus on national security grounds, Google investing up to $40B in Anthropic at a $350B valuation, and the broader economic impact of the AI compute crunch. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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