Web Summit 2026 Opens Tonight: Manus AI, Blocked From Meta by Beijing, Takes Lisbon Stage
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Web Summit 2026 opens tonight in Lisbon with Manus AI, whose $2 billion acquisition by Meta was blocked by China's NDRC in April 2026, taking the stage to present autonomous AI to 70,000 attendees alongside a Cyberspace Administration of China official and a lineup of UBTECH humanoid robots legally required to cooperate with Chinese intelligence.
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