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Sam OrtegaToday

The Manus Credit Revolt

Manus sold an AI agent that would handle the steps, then billed those steps in credits that can expire. In August 2026 the company told some customers to download their own files before it deleted work made after Meta bought Manus on December 29, 2025. On r/ManusOfficial the complaints were already months old: loops, short refunds, and support chats that closed on their own. The deletion date gave that subreddit a deadline. Customers wrote their losses into the comments, because Manus never published a total.

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Lind Tailor

Who Has to Take DeepSeek Off a Federal Computer?

On October 20 the Federal Register published a Homeland Security notice: civilian agencies must stop buying from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co. and its affiliates, and they must remove DeepSeek products from their systems. The notice also covers third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations, and it never says what that phrase covers. The signed order is attached as images. A Haynes Boone alert reads a July 24 release date and says the window to object closed on September 22. Another reading of the same PDF says the order never settles when that clock starts.

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