Topic: Technology & AI — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-25 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: China put its humanoid robotics industry on full display last week with a series of technological, commercial, and capital-markets milestones. Beijing first hosted the 2026 World Robot Conference, followed by the five-day World Humanoid Robot Games, while Unitree capped the week with a blockbuster IPO.
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[2026-08-25 10:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with details in last 5 paras; CHANGES headline, lead and photo)
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[2026-08-25 10:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Yonhap) -- Seoul shares opened lower Tuesday, tracking overnight losses in technology shares on Wall Street, as investors remained cautious ahead of key events, including the upcoming earnings release from U.S. chip giant Nvidia.
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[2026-08-25 10:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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[2026-08-25 09:59 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenHumanoid robots from the Chinese company Unitree walk off the stage after performing at the company’s display on the opening day of the World Robot Conference on 19 August.Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenA woman in costume with robot dogs from the company VBOT.Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenA child watches a robotic hand operate.Photograph: VCG/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenA visitor uses a smartphone to capture a lifelike humanoid robot.Photograph: Cheng Xin/Getty ImagesShareView image in
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[2026-08-25 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Hi, this is Evelyn, writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection — a snapshot of what I'm seeing and hearing from local businesses.
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[2026-08-25 08:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Watch: BBC visits factories in China with robot workers
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[2026-08-25 08:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: The new price of capital: Surging global bond yields threaten Korea as sovereign debt and AI borrowing collide
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[2026-08-25 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: It looks like enough is enough, as Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, have taken legal action over the recent Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks.
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[2026-08-25 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Visitantes escuchan la presentación del servidor NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 AI durante el Hon Hai Tech Day (HHTD 25) en el Centro de Exposiciones Nangang en Taipéi, Taiwán, el 21 de noviembre de 2025. (Foto AP/Chiang Ying-ying, Archivo)
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[2026-08-25 06:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-25 06:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Sony created Wichef, a talking rabbit-sheep character, especially for AI applications. (Photo by Keigo Yoshida)
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[2026-08-25 05:58 UTC+10:00] [World / Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: London: Britain will develop new defence systems with Ukraine by gaining access to battlefield data that can help train artificial intelligence programs that support future weapons, despite warnings from Russia against the deepening cooperation.
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[2026-08-25 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Visitors listen to the introduction of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 AI server during the Hon Hai Tech Day (HHTD 25) at the Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)
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[2026-08-25 05:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE's governance and investment in AI have created ripe conditions for businesses to make the most of the technology, a report says.
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[2026-08-25 05:17 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Age
Snippet: US stocks are drifting ahead of a week packed with potentially market-moving events. The areas of the bond market that the US Treasury Department is trying to calm down, meanwhile, eased a bit.
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[2026-08-25 05:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The ARIA charts has moved to ban AI music, but some exemptions will apply. (Supplied: ARIA)
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[2026-08-25 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-25 04:45 UTC+10:00] [Big Tech] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: DUBLIN — An obscure 400-year-old Irish law is holding back collective legal action against Big Tech firms in Europe.
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[2026-08-25 04:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel's Program 720, which aims to incorporate artificial intelligence into the education system, will be powered by key players in the AI world, such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, The Jerusalem Post learned, with the Education Ministry saying on Monday that these companies must comply with the highest security and privacy regulations.
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[2026-08-25 04:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A leading expert says AI can benefit students, but there are risks. (ABC News: Jason Om)
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[2026-08-25 04:16 UTC+10:00] [Defence policy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructure
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[2026-08-25 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: For three years, Sam Altman has pitched the imminent, wholesale disruption of the global economy. This week, staring down the barrel of an IPO - based on a business model that's actively being 'wholesale disrupted' by China - the OpenAI chief executive quietly admitted he got the timing wrong. Appearing on David Senra's Founders podcast, Altman conceded that the economic upheaval he forecast following GPT-4 simply hasn't materialized - and that society is adapting far more sluggishly than he anticipated.
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[2026-08-25 03:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-25 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The AI infrastructure buildout boom could soon enter another inflationary wave.
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[2026-08-25 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com,
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[2026-08-25 01:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Georgia Tech quarterback Aaron Philo warms up before an NCAA college football game against Colorado, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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[2026-08-25 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The use of AI to discover new chemical compositions is gaining traction in the materials industry. (Nikkei illustration)
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[2026-08-25 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A Goldman Sachs partner leading one of the bank's flagship artificial intelligence projects warned that AI's spread across Wall Street risks hobbling the thinking capabilities of the next generation of financiers.
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[2026-08-25 00:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Industry leaders highlight city’s international reach and expertise as state-owned drug maker considers Northern Metropolis project investment
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[2026-08-25 00:39 UTC+10:00] [scmp] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Industry leaders highlight city’s international reach and expertise as state-owned drug maker considers Northern Metropolis project investment
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[2026-08-25 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham, center, appears also on a giant screen, left, as National Guard of Ukraine and European leaders attend a commemorative ceremony marking Ukraine’s 35th Independence Day outside St. Sofia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-08-25 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: RECOGNIZING the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday life and the importance of making digital learning accessible to all generations, SM Supermalls, through SM City Baguio, partnered with the Department of Information and Communications Technology – Cordillera Administrative Region (DICT-CAR) to conduct a learning session on Artificial Intelligence for senior citizens and children at SM City Baguio.
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[2026-08-25 00:01 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Prime minister will use national cabinet meeting to assuage premiers over new AI law as AEMO forecasts seven-fold rise in datacentre power use
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[2026-08-25 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Music] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Despite their fast rise, the Manchester indie-pop band are happily going at their own pace. But what – if anything – did they learn from the advice of Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon?
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[2026-08-24 23:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-24 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: LandSpace’s rocket booster recovery has supercharged the country’s commercial space ambitions – and validated a former state engineer’s start-up gamble
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[2026-08-24 23:30 UTC+10:00] [Fujian province] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: LandSpace’s rocket booster recovery has supercharged the country’s commercial space ambitions – and validated a former state engineer’s start-up gamble
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[2026-08-24 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Regular readers are aware that one of our biggest concerns with the AI supercycle, and the entire AI arms race between the US and China, is that when push comes to shove, not only is there mounting grassroots opposition to data center build out across the US but, more importantly, the US is badly lagging China when it comes to the rollout of much needed energy to power the hundreds of Gigawatts of energy needed to power up the hundreds
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[2026-08-24 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Weeks before the expected Xi-Trump summit in Washington, officials are trading barbs on social media over the latest competitive arena
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[2026-08-24 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Dominican Republic] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Weeks before the expected Xi-Trump summit in Washington, officials are trading barbs on social media over the latest competitive arena
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[2026-08-24 22:33 UTC+10:00] [تبلیغات در چتجیپیتی] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: شرکت هوش مصنوعی "اوپنایآی" (OpenAI) در حال گسترش کسب و کار تبلیغات خود در چتجیپیتی در اروپا است. در همین راستا نمایش تبلیغات از روز دوشنبه ۲۴ اوت (۲ شهریور) در ۳۱ کشور اروپایی آغاز شده است. به این ترتیب اکنون دهها میلیون کاربر چتجیپیتی در سراسر اروپا برای اولین بار تبلیغاتی را در مکالمات خود با این چتبات مشاهده خواهند کرد.
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[2026-08-24 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Strait of Hormuz has exposed an uncomfortable truth about modern warfare: a military can destroy much of an adversary’s force, achieve overwhelming air superiority and strike thousands of targets, yet still fail to control the geography that gives the adversary strategic leverage.
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[2026-08-24 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli missile and suicide drone company UVision Air and US defense technology company Mistral have won another contract from the US Army to supply Hero 120 suicide drones. The order is worth $50 million. The Hero 120 has a maximum range of about 40 to 60 kilometers and its duration of operation is about an hour.
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[2026-08-24 22:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are lower with Tech underperforming as the market focuses on NVDA / MRVL earnings this week; while the AI theme is pressured globally and memory stocks slump driven by a slide in the Kospi. Futures got a boost just after 7am when CNBC reported that the Treasury could use the General Account ($935BN as of today) to fund bond buybacks.
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[2026-08-24 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The increase will be driven by aggressive capacity expansion at SMIC, China’s largest contract chipmaker, as well as improving yields
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[2026-08-24 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The increase will be driven by aggressive capacity expansion at SMIC, China’s largest contract chipmaker, as well as improving yields
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[2026-08-24 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel is set to develop offensive space capabilities as part of the Defense Ministry’s multiyear budget plan for the space sector, including systems designed to defend Israeli satellites from hostile spacecraft and weapons capable of striking targets on Earth from space.
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[2026-08-24 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Nick Cleveland-Stout via Responsible Statecraft,
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[2026-08-24 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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