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- Manus "agentic" AI claims to beat OpenAI, but early reviews are mixed
- TikTok sale: Trump says U.S. in talks with 4 different groups
- Trump declines to rule out recession
- Apple delays AI-led Siri upgrade indefinitely to “coming year”
- Anysphere, Cursor maker, in talks for close to $10B valuation
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1. Manus “agentic” AI claims to beat OpenAI's Deep Research, but early reviews are mixed
The Chinese AI company says it surpassed OpenAI’s Deep Research on the benchmark GAIA:
Mar. 6: preview launch of Manus.
$1,000 invite codes to test the agent were seen on Xianyu.
Endless loops and errors while testing Manus encountered by many early users.
Factual errors and missing information affected user experience.
“Focus is to keep improving Manus and make AI agents that actually help users solve problems,” a Manus spokesperson said.
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3. Trump says U.S. in talks with 4 different groups on TikTok sale
“[I]t could,” Trump said on Sun. when asked if the deal was imminent.
Apr. 5 is the deadline for TikTok to strike a deal or face a U.S. ban.
4. Trump declines to rule out recession
Atlanta’s GDPNow tracker indicated -2.4% in GDP growth in Q1:
