Topic: Technology & AI — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-15 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A push notification sent by Apple to some users warning about mercenary spyware is giving many pause about just how secure their iPhones and Macs really are.
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[2026-08-15 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A push notification sent by Apple to some users warning about mercenary spyware is giving many pause about just how secure their iPhones and Macs really are.
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[2026-08-15 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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[2026-08-15 01:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: When OpenAI hired Denise Dresser from Slack to be its chief revenue officer in December, Fidji Simo, a top-ranking executive, said in a blog post that Dresser's "experience will help us make AI useful, reliable, and accessible for businesses everywhere."
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[2026-08-15 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This combination of 2017-2022 photos shows the logos of Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on mobile devices. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, Seattle Public Schools filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, suing the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.
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[2026-08-15 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Scams] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The administrative work required to run an effective investment scam has been drastically cut by using merging technology
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[2026-08-14 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: In July, the appropriately-named 'Groundbreaker' website laid out a structural diagnosis that most of the market still refuses to confront: the AI boom is not a technology cycle. It is a credit-driven real-estate-like cycle whose financing architecture depends on the second derivative.
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[2026-08-14 23:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Senior FAO official for Africa Meshack Malo described artificial intelligence as a powerful tool for farmers, stressing the need for Africa datasets, language models, research capacity and agritech firms, to enable the continent to be not only the consumer but the driver of the technology.
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[2026-08-14 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: It was almost a year ago, in November 2025, when we first calculated that the AI supercycle was facing a huge problem: namely, a power shortfall of (at least) 44 nuclear power plants, or GW or energy, by 2028.
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[2026-08-14 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Online dating] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ grows
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[2026-08-14 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wishful thinking and irresponsible levels of debt are driving a global economy that looks sweet from the outside but is utterly hollow
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[2026-08-14 22:30 UTC+10:00] [United States] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wishful thinking and irresponsible levels of debt are driving a global economy that looks sweet from the outside but is utterly hollow
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[2026-08-14 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are fractionally higher, as they have been much of this supercharged week which pushed stocks to new all tim ehighs, amid quiet news flow this morning. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.1% after the index closed at a record on Thursday. Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 0.2%, with the tech benchmark set for a 1.2% gain in the week.
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[2026-08-14 21:52 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-08-14 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two teens indicted for setting fire to a Japanika in Givatayim - Hanan Yaakov, 18, and Osher Bayach, 18, both from Rehovot - were revealed to have used ChatGPT to ask what the punishment for arson was before setting out to light the restaurant on fire.
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[2026-08-14 21:34 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: DENNIS ANTHONY UY. Converge CEO Uy speaks at the launch of the DTI AI and Scale-up Center.
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[2026-08-14 21:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With the launch of Harness, China’s DeepSeek continues to build the foundational digital scaffolding for autonomous AI agents
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[2026-08-14 21:03 UTC+10:00] [Anthropic] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With the launch of Harness, China’s DeepSeek continues to build the foundational digital scaffolding for autonomous AI agents
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[2026-08-14 21:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Company says GLM-5.3 outperformed leading US systems in cybersecurity tests, beating Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 on CyberGym
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[2026-08-14 21:03 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Company says GLM-5.3 outperformed leading US systems in cybersecurity tests, beating Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 on CyberGym
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[2026-08-14 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.
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[2026-08-14 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A new Gallup survey finds a wide gap between the financial advice Americans say they trust and the advice they actually take.
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[2026-08-14 20:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This is our flagship newsletter Morning Wire. You can subscribe here and we’ll email it to you daily.
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[2026-08-14 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Human testing could take up to five years to ramp up, but AI approaches will yield results in time, Karoly Nikolich says
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[2026-08-14 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Human testing could take up to five years to ramp up, but AI approaches will yield results in time, Karoly Nikolich says
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[2026-08-14 19:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Guangdong province deepens ties with China tech giant to boost digital innovation by focusing on AI, semiconductors and smart services
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[2026-08-14 19:15 UTC+10:00] [Guangdong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Guangdong province deepens ties with China tech giant to boost digital innovation by focusing on AI, semiconductors and smart services
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[2026-08-14 18:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Warning: this article contains spoilers
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[2026-08-14 18:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Japanese currency and US tech stocks share the same fatal problem: momentum can’t survive broken fundamentals
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[2026-08-14 18:30 UTC+10:00] [OpenAI] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Japanese currency and US tech stocks share the same fatal problem: momentum can’t survive broken fundamentals
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[2026-08-14 18:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: As Nvidia partners with Wall Street firms to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure, the increasingly complex financing underpinning the boom is coming under closer scrutiny.
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[2026-08-14 18:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Both superpowers have set up their own international blocs, fuelling concerns that other countries will be forced to pick sides
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[2026-08-14 18:28 UTC+10:00] [Institute of International Affairs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Both superpowers have set up their own international blocs, fuelling concerns that other countries will be forced to pick sides
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[2026-08-14 18:18 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean Prime Minister Han Seong-sook met Bill Gates, chairman of TerraPower, in Seoul on Friday to discuss cooperation on small modular reactors and energy solutions for the artificial intelligence era.
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[2026-08-14 18:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Our view of the missing air-defense layer around data centers and other critical infrastructure emerged in late January, roughly one month before the US-Iran conflict, when we published "Explosion in AI Data Center Buildouts Will Demand Next-Gen Counter-Drone Security."
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[2026-08-14 17:28 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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[2026-08-14 17:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The future of India's first semiconductor plant and the country's ambition to replace China as a major supplier to Apple face growing uncertainty after Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran said he would no longer seek another term.
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[2026-08-14 17:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Younger, professionally diverse Chinese are turning to local brands for technology and qualities once tied to foreign marques
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[2026-08-14 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Guangdong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Younger, professionally diverse Chinese are turning to local brands for technology and qualities once tied to foreign marques
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[2026-08-14 16:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli-American startup Covenant Industries successfully conducted a live launch of its innovative new Anthem cruise missile last week in the Tan Tan area of southern Morocco, as part of a joint military exercise involving the US military and the Moroccan Armed Forces.
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[2026-08-14 15:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Koo, Huang team up to deepen ties in humanoids, AI factories and autonomous driving
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[2026-08-14 15:30 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Sydney design giant Canva has cut its internal valuation by a fifth, telling staff an independent assessment now values the business at $43.9 billion, a cut of more than $10 billion from its most recent valuation a year ago.
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[2026-08-14 15:26 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-08-14 15:21 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Samsung Electronics has recruited two artificial intelligence and data specialists as it steps up efforts to deploy AI across its semiconductor operations, from chip design and process development to manufacturing.
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[2026-08-14 15:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Yonhap) -- Revenue from Apple Inc. at LG Innotek Co. is believed to have reached a record high in the first half of the year, according to the first-half report released by the electronic component maker Friday.
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[2026-08-14 15:00 UTC+10:00] [Comment & Analysis] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-08-14 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s largest foundry says shortages are spreading to mature-node chips, with some AI-driven demand visible through the end of 2027
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[2026-08-14 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s largest foundry says shortages are spreading to mature-node chips, with some AI-driven demand visible through the end of 2027
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[2026-08-14 14:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Foreign investors dumped Indian equities in the first six months of the year, with net sales totaling $26.7 billion, but have since turned buyers, with net purchases topping $3.8 billion.
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[2026-08-14 14:00 UTC+10:00] [artificial intelligence] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The technology is being used for everything from digitising rare manuscripts to helping break down barriers to understanding classical texts
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