Meta Acquires AI Chatbot Company Manus

Meta Acquires AI Chatbot Company Manus

Meta has acquired yet another AI start-up as part of its expanded mission towards AI “superintelligence,” with AI chatbot company Manus joining the Meta flock. Manus, which says that it builds “general AI agents as the action engine for life,” and describes its mission as “extending human reach by giving everyone the code to leverage…

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Wristwatch Release New Album ‘III’: Listen

Wristwatch Release New Album ‘III’: Listen

Madison’s Wristwatch play a sharp-edged, high-strung form of garage punk, like the Buzzcocks meet Dark Thoughts. The vocals are theatrically forceful and piercing in a way that reminds me of Jay Reatard, and the band’s nervous-tension barrage brims with the mechanical intensity of a post-punk band without losing its fiery humanity. It’s all tightly wound…

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