Friday, 1 May 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
Research & Products
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 is now live!a major step forward in agentic capability and multimodal understanding. 310B params / 15B active. Native vision + audio. Up to 1M token context. And it's open-source. Explore on ModelScope https:// modelscope.cn/collections/Xi aomiMiMo/MiMo-V25 … The numbers back
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 is now live!a major step forward in agentic capability and multimodal understanding.
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China Blocked Meta's $2B Manus Deal After the Money Was Already Transferred
Beijing intervened in Meta's Manus acquisition after funds had already moved. This is a new level of regulatory aggression in US-China tech competition.
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