Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…China blocks Meta’s purchase of Manus…OpenAI falls short of its revenue and growth targets…Anthropic shows AI models can help advance AI safety research…Sen. Bernie Sanders’s decision to invite Chinese AI experts to a Capitol Hill panel provokes China hawks’ ire. In their battle for enterprise sales, both OpenAI and Anthropic have been targeting financial services firms. That’s not surprising. As that old joke about why criminals rob banks says: It’s where the money is. OpenAI supposedly has a battalion of ex-investment analysts helping to build a yet-to-be-launched agentic AI financial analysis…