Topic: Technology & AI — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-18 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Executives say they are actively pursuing business opportunities in Malaysia and that adapting to local market dynamics is key
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[2026-08-18 10:30 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong Trade Development Council] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Executives say they are actively pursuing business opportunities in Malaysia and that adapting to local market dynamics is key
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[2026-08-18 10:28 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: China’s Unitree unveiled a new high-speed robot it dubbed “Superman”, days before becoming the first general-purpose robotics company to list on mainland China’s stock market.
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[2026-08-18 10:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with details in last 5 paras)
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[2026-08-18 10:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Yonhap) -- Seoul shares opened higher Tuesday, led by gains by major chipmakers, despite overnight losses on Wall Street, as hopes for a deal to end the war with Iran fade.
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[2026-08-18 10:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (2nd LD) Lee proposes dialogue with N. Korea to officially end Korean War, halt Pyongyang's nuclear program
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[2026-08-18 10:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Published 18 August 2026 8:28pm
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[2026-08-18 09:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A farming family in rural America has rejected a multimillion-dollar offer to sell their land for a data center development, joining opposition to a rapid buildout of such facilities driven by the AI boom in the US.
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[2026-08-18 09:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A farming family in rural America has rejected a multimillion-dollar offer to sell their land for a data center development, joining opposition to a rapid buildout of such facilities driven by the AI boom in the US.
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[2026-08-18 09:22 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI-generated. Read the article for full context. Report any errors.
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[2026-08-18 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Amid AI’s impact, slower population growth, regional integration and newly built homes, investment bank says property prices likely to remain flat
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[2026-08-18 09:00 UTC+10:00] [Greater Bay Area] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Amid AI’s impact, slower population growth, regional integration and newly built homes, investment bank says property prices likely to remain flat
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[2026-08-18 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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[2026-08-18 08:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-18 08:37 UTC+10:00] [What's the scam?] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-08-18 08:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-18 07:49 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-08-18 07:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Meta is heading to court on Tuesday to face accusations that it broke child safety laws and harmed underage users’ mental health. A loss could bankrupt Mark Zuckerberg’s company and force permanent changes to Facebook and Instagram.
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[2026-08-18 07:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Meta is heading to court on Tuesday to face accusations that it broke child safety laws and harmed underage users’ mental health. A loss could bankrupt Mark Zuckerberg’s company and force permanent changes to Facebook and Instagram.
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[2026-08-18 06:33 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Greens spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young says opt-out system doesn’t acknowledge ‘how the internet actually works. Follow today’s news live
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[2026-08-18 05:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Hitachi expects to earn greater profit with its high global share in power transmission and distribution equipment, which benefits from the data center boom. (Hitachi)
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[2026-08-18 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-18 05:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-18 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Norman was the first to wish Chouwa Liang a happy 30th birthday. He sent her a poem.
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[2026-08-18 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Trump administration is working to strengthen security against biological attacks after staffing cuts targeted experts in the field early in US President Donald Trump's second term, as artificial intelligence raises new fears about synthetic pathogens, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
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[2026-08-18 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-18 03:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: La fiscal Christina Stifler en el tribunal durante el juicio a Mario Fernandez Saldana en Jacksonville, Florida el 17 de agosto del 2026. (Corey Perrine/The Florida Times-Union via AP, Pool)
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[2026-08-18 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Leading technology firms are increasingly tying together chips, power and data centre development as they race to meet soaring AI demand
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[2026-08-18 03:30 UTC+10:00] [OpenAI] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Leading technology firms are increasingly tying together chips, power and data centre development as they race to meet soaring AI demand
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[2026-08-18 02:52 UTC+10:00] [Anthropic] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulation
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[2026-08-18 02:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-18 02:30 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Commentary about the ‘so bad it’s good’ qualities of mother and son’s movie has driven people to see it at cinema
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[2026-08-18 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ADVANCED Learning Programs (ALPs) has officially announced the 5th Annual Southeast Asia HR Expo and Symposium (Seahres) 2026 taking place at Novotel Manila, Araneta City, Cubao, Quezon City, on Oct. 6 and 7, 2026. Under the theme “Redesigning Work Where Humans and AI Win Together,” Seahres 2026 brings together over 200 C-level executives, strategic directors and human resources (HR) leaders.
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[2026-08-18 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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[2026-08-18 01:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Recent Securities and Exchange Commission guidance is underpinning the debt-fueled data center buildout to support artificial intelligence.
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[2026-08-18 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Synchrony Financial, the credit card issuer for brands including Amazon, Walmart and Lowe's, is working with OpenAI to allow shoppers to buy products directly inside ChatGPT using their store cards.
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[2026-08-18 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Editor's note: A previous version of this story, based on information provided by a Synchrony Financial executive, mischaracterized the collaboration between Synchrony and OpenAI. Details, quotes and characterizations attributed to Synchrony and the executive have been removed. A corrected version is below.
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[2026-08-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Supermarkets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Supermarkets say they are exploring ways to keep people safe, but experts claim the tech is ‘normalising surveillance’
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[2026-08-18 00:50 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Politico
Snippet: The first thing I noticed when I gave up American technology was the silence.
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[2026-08-18 00:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: While global equity indices are at or close to all-time highs, DB's Peter Sidorov writes that we’re seeing more challenging August crosswinds playing out in bond markets. Expectations for an imminent Fed rate hike have been pulled back, but this has been accompanied by a significant US curve steepening, with the backdrop of higher oil prices, elevated fiscal deficits, and demand for capital from the AI investment boom putting upward pressure on yields.
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[2026-08-18 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Nvidia on Monday said it will provide the credit and compute for a new artificial intelligence data center for OpenAI in Ohio.
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[2026-08-18 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beyond GPUs and memory chips, the rapid AI buildout is sparking demand for indium phosphide, a substrate used to power next-generation optical transmission
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[2026-08-18 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beyond GPUs and memory chips, the rapid AI buildout is sparking demand for indium phosphide, a substrate used to power next-generation optical transmission
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[2026-08-17 23:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: By Bas van Geffen, senior macro strategist at Rabobank
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[2026-08-17 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The shop set a Guinness World Record on its opening day for the most cups of coffee served by a robot-operated store in one hour.
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[2026-08-17 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are higher again, just a few basis points away from a new all time high, led by Tech as the week starts with Semis / Memory / AI themes bid globally, as small-caps are fractionally in the red. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are 0.1% higher, while Nasdaq futures climb 0.5% after strong revenue growth at Anthropic helped boost optimism around artificial intelligence and bolstered the view that massive spending on artificial intelligence will be sustained.
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[2026-08-17 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Sluggish adoption can’t be blamed on overregulation, and restricting access to US frontier models is no defence against open-source Chinese rivals
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[2026-08-17 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Moonshot AI] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Sluggish adoption can’t be blamed on overregulation, and restricting access to US frontier models is no defence against open-source Chinese rivals
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[2026-08-17 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta, California could determine the company's fate when it comes to critical changes at Facebook and Instagram.
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[2026-08-17 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's top DRAM maker, surged 12% to a record 61.80 yuan on Monday, lifting its market capitalization to 4.13 trillion yuan. The upside is because reports that Apple is considering using CXMT memory chips, alongside continued momentum across chip stocks following last week's gains in SanDisk and Micron.
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