Topic: Technology & AI — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-03 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held a top-tier "Q" security clearance at the Department of Energy from 2014 to 2021 - though the DOE didn't grant it. Another federal agency vetted him first, and the letter confirming the clearance doesn't say which one.
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[2026-08-03 05:23 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: US stocks rose to finish a wild July for Wall Street as Amazon leaped, Apple sank and rising oil prices worsened worries about inflation staying high.
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[2026-08-03 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Travel / Reviews & advice] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Depending on who you listen to, artificial intelligence (AI) is either the greatest threat to civilisation ever devised by dark minds or a powerful tool that helps us work faster and solve problems. The truth lies somewhere in between.
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[2026-08-03 05:00 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: August 3, 2026 05:00 | News
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[2026-08-03 05:00 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: August 3, 2026 05:00 | News
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[2026-08-03 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Lorena Wiebes (de los Países Bajos, del equipo SD Worx-Protime) celebra al cruzar la línea de meta para ganar la segunda etapa, de 149 km entre Aigle y Ginebra, durante el Tour de Francia Femenino (Tour de France Femmes), en Ginebra, Suiza, el domingo 2 de agosto de 2026. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone vía AP)
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[2026-08-03 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Financial Markets
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[2026-08-03 04:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-03 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: An NTT Data Group data center in Japan. (NTT Global Data Centers Japan)
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[2026-08-03 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: All high school students in Israel will begin learning English using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) lessons beginning in the next school year, the Education Ministry confirmed.
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[2026-08-03 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-08-03 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-08-03 01:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: FRANKFURT, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung headed home Sunday after wrapping up a trip aimed at strengthening cooperation with U.S. tech giants on artificial intelligence (AI) and with South American nations on critical minerals.
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[2026-08-03 01:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Visitors walk the grounds of the festival opera house “Festspielhaus” in Bayreuth, southern Germany, on July 17, 2010. (Eckehard Schulz/DAPD via AP)
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[2026-08-03 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: IDF Brig.-Gen. (res.) Erez Winner told the "Defense & Tech" podcast that Israel has defeated Hamas and Hezbollah militarily, while calling the length of the Gaza war a military failure.
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[2026-08-03 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: AI companies are buying and then destroying millions of rare books to prevent AI slop content that consumers are vocally against, 404 Media reported last week.
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[2026-08-03 00:01 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Global tech giants have sandbagged their wider revenue streams but face losing a larger share of their advertising income under the federal government’s plan to force them into funding Australian journalism.
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[2026-08-02 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-02 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2 on Wednesday, a suite of three AI models that gives humanoid and other robots whole-body control, sharper manipulation, and the ability to work together. The system can run locally on the robot itself and adapt to an entirely new machine body with a few hours of training data.
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[2026-08-02 20:33 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Hyundai Motor Group wants to move beyond car manufacturing and become a physical artificial intelligence company spanning autonomous vehicles, robots, intelligent factories and urban infrastructure.
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[2026-08-02 19:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — Recent cyberattacks carried out autonomously by two rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence models raises an untested legal question: who is responsible when AI acts on its own?
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[2026-08-02 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Film] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As AI slop takes over our screens, what better antidote for enquiring minds than a magical film? We ask directors, producers and critics to pick one must-see movie for each year from infancy to early adulthood
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[2026-08-02 19:00 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Investors scramble to make sense of a shock Chinese challenge to the dominance of western chipmakers
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[2026-08-02 17:46 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: AI chip optimism fueled aggressive bets, while margin trading amplified retail investors' losses
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[2026-08-02 17:11 UTC+10:00] [AI] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: (德國之聲中文網)Anthropic在7月30日通過其官網透露,在排查了14.1萬次測試運行後,發現了共3起入侵其他機構事件。該公司表示,在瞭解到OpenAI的「失控入侵」事件後,立刻就啟動了對於自家AI產品的「大規模」安全排查,專門瞭解其模型是否能夠從本應處於封閉狀態的測試環境中訪問網路。
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[2026-08-02 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-08-02 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Companion robots start arriving in September, offering emotional interaction and novelty, but chores remain off the table – at least for now
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[2026-08-02 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Zhejiang province] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Companion robots start arriving in September, offering emotional interaction and novelty, but chores remain off the table – at least for now
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[2026-08-02 14:58 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: President Lee Jae Myung is set to arrive in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday for the final leg of his 11-day trip to the United States and three South American countries that produced agreements on artificial intelligence, critical minerals, energy security and trade.
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[2026-08-02 14:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong authorities investigating after accident during trial run on Saturday
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[2026-08-02 14:54 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong International Airport] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong authorities investigating after accident during trial run on Saturday
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[2026-08-02 14:53 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's largest carmaker is leveraging its manufacturing scale, Boston Dynamics and partnerships with Nvidia and Waymo to move beyond cars
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[2026-08-02 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the leaders in generative artificial intelligence, are in hot water right now, and the situation could be reaching a boiling point.
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[2026-08-02 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: AI framework uses a memory module and large language model to detect pseudonymous cross-border illegal trading practices in crypto crackdown
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[2026-08-02 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Inner Mongolia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: AI framework uses a memory module and large language model to detect pseudonymous cross-border illegal trading practices in crypto crackdown
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[2026-08-02 11:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-02 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI-generated. Read the article for full context. Report any errors.
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[2026-08-02 09:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The city is taking the right approach by harnessing the power of AI and social media while actively protecting student well-being
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[2026-08-02 09:15 UTC+10:00] [Christine Choi] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The city is taking the right approach by harnessing the power of AI and social media while actively protecting student well-being
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[2026-08-02 09:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: ROK AIR FORCE ONE, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung has taken a major step toward cementing South Korea's presence as a global artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor hub with a trip that helped secure chip supply deals with U.S. tech giants and expand critical mineral cooperation with South American countries, officials said Sunday.
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[2026-08-02 08:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Google briefly unveiled a feature for Google Earth's satellite maps, allowing users to generate realistic-looking fake images on top of real ones, before removing it after widespread condemnation of its ability to easily spread misinformation.
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[2026-08-02 08:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A new survey by Israeli recruiting firm GotFriends, seen by Globes, reports that while many tech companies continue to reduce employees and slow hiring, as part of streamlining adjustments for AI adoption, defense-tech startups are aggressively expanding their workforce. The number of new jobs in the defense-tech industry increased 20% in 2026 compared with the same period last year, and wages are climbing by about 8%.
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[2026-08-02 08:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-02 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The next phase is building factories and Chinese brands abroad as well as embedding its tech, industrial standards in global supply chains
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[2026-08-02 07:30 UTC+10:00] [Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The next phase is building factories and Chinese brands abroad as well as embedding its tech, industrial standards in global supply chains
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[2026-08-02 07:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: England won four golds and three silvers on the final day of boxing in Glasgow, in addition to three bronzes secured earlier in the week
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[2026-08-02 07:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Spain declared a national state of emergency as it grapples with several major wildfires
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[2026-08-02 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-02 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: An engineer conducts an inspection in a data center in Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China on Feb. 13, 2025. © Getty Images
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[2026-08-02 06:00 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
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