Meta Drops $2 Billion Manus Acquisition

Jaden Schaefer· Host0:00

Welcome to the podcast today. I have some exciting news, and aside from the fact that Meta is unwinding their two billion dollar Manus acquisition, I have some even more exciting personal news, and that is that last week, my wife and I welcomed our newest member of the family. We had a healthy baby boy. His name is Clay, and it is absolutely exciting in our household. So if you're wondering why my, uh, podcast posting hasn't been super consistent over the last week, and maybe for the next week or two it might be a little spotty, I'll do my best, but, uh, I'm spending a lot of time snuggling that little guy. Currently, him and mom are sleeping, so I figured this would be a good time to get a podcast episode out. But everything went incredibly well with the birth. Everyone is healthy and happy and doing great and growing. He's pooping lots, so we're pretty happy. He's now five days old. This year, I turned 30, and this is our fourth kid, so we definitely have our hands full, but we feel super blessed. I always tell everyone to have as many kids as you can as soon as possible. They are the best thing about life. Okay, let's talk about what's going on in the news. I mentioned Meta unwinding this two billion dollar Manus acquisition. This is because Beijing told them that they had to divest it, which-- By this point, we've all seen the headlines that Anthropic's Fable-5 got banned over the weekend and pulled, so you no longer get access to that. But it turns out that an Amazon security paper is what triggered the White House banning this. We'll get into that. Apple's Craig Federighi says that the new Siri is going to refuse romantic roleplay, so we're gonna talk a little bit about where Siri is going in the future and what it can and can't be used for.