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🤖 Meta acquires Chinese AI startup Manus
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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🧠Researchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots
📺 Samsung brings Google Photos to AI TVs
💰 SoftBank buys DigitalBridge for $4B
📝 Notion Testing AI-First Workspaces
💡 AI Tutorial:Perform real-time market research using Grok
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Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has bought Manus, a Singapore-based startup owned by Beijing Butterfly Effect Technology,that makes a popular artificial intelligence (AI) agent. This move comes as Meta pushes to turn its big AI investments into real business results. The financial terms of the deal were not shared.
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Samsung has partnered with Google to bring Google Photos directly to its AI TV lineup, launching in 2026 as the first TVs to support Google Photos' Memories feature on the big screen. The integration will transform Samsung TVs into oversized digital frames that showcase curated photo stories organized by people, places, and moments.
SoftBank has agreed to acquire DigitalBridge for $4 billion, marking a major move into AI infrastructure. DigitalBridge manages about $108 billion in assets and focuses on digital infrastructure investments.
Notion is working on a major overhaul with dedicated tabs for AI chats, pages, and inbox in the sidebar. The early access program includes AI credits, usage tracking, and internal models with codenames like "Gingerbread Oreo Cheesecake."
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Connect accounts: click the xAI Module 2 and add your API key, then click the Notion Module 3 and authorize access to your page from step 1
Set up the webhook: copy the webhook URL from Make's Webhook Module 1, go to Notion, click the lightning bolt → "Webhook trigger on new," replace the URL, and set it to trigger when Status = "Start Research"
Test by creating a new database row, filling out Research Topic, Date, Industry/Competitor, and Sources, then setting Status to "Start Research”
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