@atlasberry008: China has blocked the China piece of SoftBank's deal for ABB's robotics business. It's ABB Robotics' biggest market, with about 12,700 employees and a mega-factory in Shanghai. The global deal is still being worked on. It follows Beijing ordering Meta to unwind its $2 billion Manus deal in April. The reported worry is data. Factory robots record how things get made, and that's exactly what the next wave of AI models wants to learn from. The internet trained the last generation of AI. Factory floors could train the next one. SoftBank, ABB Robotics, Masayoshi Son, China, Meta, Manus, Mark Zuckerberg, robotics, industrial AI, AI training data, physical AI, national security, cross-border M&A, data sovereignty, export controls, Shanghai, OpenAI #venturecapital #robotics #ai #softbank #china

atlasberry008

Open In TikTok:

Region: US

Tuesday 10 November 2026 00:04:27 GMT