{"podcast":{"title":"Tech Brew Ride Home","slug":"tech-brew-ride-home-331078","podcast_index_feed_id":331078,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ridehome","website_url":"https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/de2eda0a-6caf-11f0-b957-cb9efc7ef063/image/5f654e3697eab991cefe3a98fc543911.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Amalgamated Internets, LLC","episode_count":2378,"summary":"Silicon Valley's water cooler podcast. A tech news summary every day... 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T08:17:35.498597+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home-331078"},"episode":{"title":"Meta Needs To Rethink Manus","slug":"meta-needs-to-rethink-manus","published_at":"2026-04-27T18:13:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home-331078/meta-needs-to-rethink-manus","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home-331078","url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/bHsDpvy53mYwJpnc1UL5/traffic.megaphone.fm/MOBI8641893824.mp3?updated=1777313963","audio_url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/bHsDpvy53mYwJpnc1UL5/traffic.megaphone.fm/MOBI8641893824.mp3?updated=1777313963","summary":"China blocked Meta's $2B Manus acquisition and ordered both sides to unwind the deal, closing the \"Singapore washing\" loophole for Chinese AI startups. OpenAI is developing smartphone chips with Qualcomm and MediaTek, Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, and SaaS pricing shifts to usage-based. China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (FT) Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028 (Ming-Chi Kuo) Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend (FT) Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 (The Information) Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (Anthropic) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"China blocked Meta's $2B Manus acquisition and ordered both sides to unwind the deal, closing the \"Singapore washing\" loophole for Chinese AI startups. Op…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1277,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tech-brew-ride-home-331078/episodes/meta-needs-to-rethink-manus/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home-331078/meta-needs-to-rethink-manus.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}