On June 11, 2026, Straits Times and Bloomberg report that Meta has revoked Manus's access to internal systems and barred its employees from using Manus tools, executing the April NDRC order that imposed the dismantling of the $2 billion acquisition announced in December 2025. It's the first time Beijing has forced the unwind of a completed cross-border AI acquisition: the precedent affects every future M&A deal with Chinese founders or IP, and forces rewriting unwind clauses in any deal currently open.
On June 10, 2026, Anthropic publishes the Advanced AI Framework, a proposal asking the federal government for legal authority to block the riskiest frontier models. On June 12, a US government export control directive suspends Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and Anthropic cites its own proposal to challenge the process. The difference between the 'with due process' power Anthropic requested and the 'without due process' power the government exercised is the real policy artifact of the week.