Topic: Technology & AI — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-15 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A stoner who changed his bitcoin password to something totally “obvious” while high in college nearly a decade ago finally recovered $400,000 thanks to an “AI assistant,” he said.
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[2026-05-15 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Google is hoping to compete with Apple’s MacBook and Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs, introducing a new line of laptops built for Gemini AI and running on a hybrid of Android and ChromeOS.
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[2026-05-15 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The mayor of the Canadian city of Vancouver, Ken Sim, has clarified that artificial intelligence systems are not used to make municipal decisions after remarks about digital assistants handling parts of his workload sparked debate online, local media reported.
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[2026-05-15 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The mayor of the Canadian city of Vancouver, Ken Sim, has clarified that artificial intelligence systems are not used to make municipal decisions after remarks about digital assistants handling parts of his workload sparked debate online, local media reported.
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[2026-05-15 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday denounced how investments in artificial intelligence and high-tech weaponry were leading the world into a “spiral of annihilation,” as he called for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine during a visit to Europe’s largest university.
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[2026-05-15 04:00 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Emergence AI’s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear
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[2026-05-15 03:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: According to a new survey, 86% of office workers are using “please” and “thank you” with AI — and you may need to, too.
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[2026-05-15 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Shares of chip designer Cerebras Systems soared 89% above the initial public offering price on their Nasdaq debut, extending the market’s unrelenting frenzy for companies seen as the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom.
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[2026-05-15 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Davide Ballerini (derecha) supera en la meta a Jasper Stuyven para ganar la sexta etapa del Giro de Italia, el 14 de mayo de 2026, en Nápoles. (Gian Mattia d’Alberto/LaPresse vía AP)
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[2026-05-15 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “Property Brothers” star Jonathan Scott is hard at work on his next passion project — and it’s one that hits very close to home.
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[2026-05-15 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sam Altman, center, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, right, arrive at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
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[2026-05-15 02:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Elon Musk's lead counsel, Steven Molo, apologized to the jury for his absence on Thursday, with the Tesla CEO accompanying President Donald Trump in China as closing arguments were made in the Musk-Altman trial.
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[2026-05-15 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Vista Equity Partners, the tech-focused US private equity company that manages $107 billion in assets, has opened its office at ADGM, further growing the number of investment majors choosing Abu Dhabi for their regional base.
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[2026-05-15 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As the S&P continues to reach new highs in the mid 7000s, leaving the COVID era 3000s as a forgotten fevered dream… and AI euphoria fueling increasingly speculative bets across Wall Street and Main Street, the sane among us need to ask the question: when will reality hit?
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[2026-05-15 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BANGKOK — Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has rejected an audio clip of him purportedly promising to reopen border crossings with Cambodia as false and “obviously” artificial intelligence (AI)-generated.
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[2026-05-15 02:02 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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[2026-05-15 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-05-15 01:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Meta and Google enlisted trusted children’s brands such as Sesame Street, Girl Scouts and Highlights magazine to teach kids to use technology in moderation — even as the companies designed apps that made it difficult for those same young users to unplug, public statements and internal documents show.
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[2026-05-15 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a state visit and scheduled talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, with trade, rare earths, Taiwan, artificial intelligence, and the Iran war expected to dominate the agenda. The visit may produce visible deliverables, but the larger test is whether either side can gain leverage while leaving the deepest disputes unresolved.
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[2026-05-15 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The back-and-forth drama surrounding America's AI chip export policies has ratcheted up as US President Donald Trump visits China with a phalanx of US technology executives, including Nvidia's Jensen Huang.
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[2026-05-15 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told CNBC on Thursday that skyrocketing demand for artificial intelligence tools and equipment is powering the industry toward a "networking supercycle."
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[2026-05-15 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Chinese and US presidents attend a glittering state banquet that combined Chinese and Western dishes
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[2026-05-15 00:17 UTC+10:00] [Apec] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Chinese and US presidents attend a glittering state banquet that combined Chinese and Western dishes
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[2026-05-15 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Cisco Systems shares posted their biggest gain since the Dot-Com boom-and-bust era after the networking giant delivered third-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates. The company also announced a workforce restructuring, aligning with a broader hyperscaler playbook that cuts labor costs and redirects capital toward AI infrastructure and data-center buildouts.
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[2026-05-15 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced on Wednesday that its board of directors recommended merging its subsidiary, Elta Systems, into IAI. Elta is a company and division within IAI, which is controlled by IAI, with only two shares held by the state.
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[2026-05-14 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The funding round was led by venture capital firms GV and Greycroft, with ‘major participation’ from Nvidia and AMD
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[2026-05-14 23:30 UTC+10:00] [AI] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The funding round was led by venture capital firms GV and Greycroft, with ‘major participation’ from Nvidia and AMD
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[2026-05-14 23:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: JMDC employees discuss the use of medical data. (Photo by Yuta Maeda)
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[2026-05-14 23:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping could hinge on two key tech flashpoints — critical minerals and market access for American companies.
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[2026-05-14 22:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Finland might be quite vocal against Israel, but that did not stop a large delegation from the Israel Defense Ministry (IMoD) from visiting for a defense seminar in the Nordic country.
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[2026-05-14 22:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Steadicopter has unveiled a new operational architecture for its Golden Eagle rotary‑wing unmanned aerial system (UAS), introducing a “mothership” configuration designed to support sustained stand‑off intelligence gathering and tactical deployment of other aerial platforms in contested or denied environments.
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[2026-05-14 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Trash glows in Jane Schoenbrun’s latest. It’s radiant, radioactive, even aphrodisiac.
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[2026-05-14 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV visits the Città Universitaria (University City) at Sapienza University of Rome to meet with faculty and students at the institution’s primary campus, one of the world’s oldest and largest universities, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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[2026-05-14 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US futures are higher as we await color on the Trump-Xi summit and US- Iran negotiations, which are said to be ongoing, and as the tech meltup continues. What is known so far is that Trump / Xi agree that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, Hormuz should reopen without a toll or militarization; the countries will look to increase investment in each other as NVDA H20 chips are approved for a set of Chinese companies.
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[2026-05-14 22:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Chinese President Xi Jinping told American CEOs travelling with President Donald Trump that the door to business in China will "open wider."
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[2026-05-14 22:02 UTC+10:00] [Explainers] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-05-14 21:54 UTC+10:00] [Artificial Intelligence] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi delivered a stark warning to Europe in Aachen, Germany, on Thursday.
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[2026-05-14 21:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: More than a dozen United States business leaders have joined President Donald Trump on his state visit to China, where he is discussing issues including trade, technology and artificial intelligence (AI) with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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[2026-05-14 21:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Production of Chinese chips could ramp up this year, as executives at the country's biggest tech companies look to deploy more homegrown technology — as it's reported U.S. chip giant Nvidia could return.
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[2026-05-14 21:00 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fixating on questions of whether Altman is untrustworthy, or whether Musk is even less so distracts from a far deeper problem with AI
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[2026-05-14 20:53 UTC+10:00] [Asia Pacific] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-05-14 20:41 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-05-14 20:37 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-05-14 20:12 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-05-14 20:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.S. can talk to China about AI because "we are in the lead," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC, as the countries unveiled a protocol on best practices for the rapidly improving technology.
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[2026-05-14 20:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Alibaba is likely to ‘overshoot’ its original capex target of US$56 billion over three years, CEO Eddie Wu Yongming told analysts
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[2026-05-14 20:02 UTC+10:00] [AI] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Alibaba is likely to ‘overshoot’ its original capex target of US$56 billion over three years, CEO Eddie Wu Yongming told analysts
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[2026-05-14 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: They’re rolling out the red carpet for businesses ditching the red apple.
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[2026-05-14 19:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with U.S. business representatives including Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14. © Reuters
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[2026-05-14 19:00 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Defying criticisms of ‘slop’ and ‘theft’, the growing culture of AI-powered creativity is attracting interest from Hollywood
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