Topic: Technology & AI — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-12 13:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Madge Waggy via 'A lot will happen in 2026!' blog,
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[2026-08-12 12:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A string of recent AI hacking incidents has pushed cybersecurity to the forefront of the conversation, as labs race to develop agentic AI from their frontier models.
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[2026-08-12 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The South Korean chipmaker wants to pivot towards the high-margin AI memory sector, but analysts warn any sale would face valuation hurdles
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[2026-08-12 12:00 UTC+10:00] [YMTC] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The South Korean chipmaker wants to pivot towards the high-margin AI memory sector, but analysts warn any sale would face valuation hurdles
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[2026-08-12 11:56 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea and Uzbekistan can seek stronger cooperation in a range of fields, including critical minerals, artificial intelligence, business and government, the leaders of the two nations said at the Korea-Uzbekistan Business Roundtable in Seoul on Tuesday.
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[2026-08-12 11:34 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-08-12 11:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung was set to attend a meeting Wednesday to explore ways to nurture advanced future industries, including small modular reactors (SMRs), nuclear fusion and aerospace, that he says will be key economic drivers and support the country's artificial intelligence (AI) transformation.
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[2026-08-12 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s quant funds face scrutiny from retail traders and regulators, driven by their large returns and use of AI
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[2026-08-12 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Wu Qing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s quant funds face scrutiny from retail traders and regulators, driven by their large returns and use of AI
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[2026-08-12 10:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Hello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC's Daily Open.
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[2026-08-12 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Last Friday's dismal jobs report (where 23K jobs were lost) had a silver lining: the unemployment rate dropped to 4.1%, the lowest since June 2025, dinging expectations that the AI revolution would lead to a spike in unemployment. There was just one problem: unemployment dropped not because more people found a job, but because the labor force shrank by a whopping 264K, and down more than 2 million since the start of the year.
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[2026-08-12 09:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 08:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 07:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The war in Ukraine is already in its fifth year; Israel has been through two rounds of fighting with Iran within a year, and China continues to put pressure on the countries around it.
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[2026-08-12 07:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Jensen Huang built the world's most valuable company by pioneering the specialized computer chips behind the artificial intelligence boom.
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[2026-08-12 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: When Bloomberg first caught Phia - the AI "personal shopping assistant" co-founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe Gates and climate-activist-turned-founder Sophia Kianni - claiming affiliate commissions on sales it had nothing to do with, the company's ham-fisted damage control was a Silicon Valley classic: an unfortunate software bug, discovered "within the last 24 hours" - and of course it was 'fixed immediately.'
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[2026-08-12 06:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: During the rise of the internet, as the World Wide Web moved from government and academic settings to family homes, parents worried about the exposure of their children to predators in online chatrooms. A generation later, as social media became central to young people’s lives, the dangers of platforms like Facebook and Instagram to children’s mental health moved to the forefront of the national conversation.
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[2026-08-12 06:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: CoreWeave shares jumped 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the AI infrastructure provider reported revenue than topped Wall Street expectations.
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[2026-08-12 06:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: SA Premier Peter Malinauskas says ignoring AI would be "reckless and foolhardy" — but the royal commission idea is not without critics. (ABC News: Daniel Taylor)
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[2026-08-12 05:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 05:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The Institute of Science Tokyo has expressed interest in working with startups strong in such areas as artificial intelligence. (Institute of Science Tokyo)
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[2026-08-12 05:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it would launch a new "AI Persona" badge in mid-September clearly identifying content producers that are AI-generated and not real people.
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[2026-08-12 05:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chinese-founded AI platform says affected users’ data will be deleted as it returns to independent operations
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[2026-08-12 05:13 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chinese-founded AI platform says affected users’ data will be deleted as it returns to independent operations
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[2026-08-12 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised high-tech entrepreneur Oren Dobronsky, who holds the first reserved slot in Likud, that he would be appointed as the minister responsible for artificial intelligence (AI) if Netanyahu forms the next government, Walla learned on Tuesday.
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[2026-08-12 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Lockheed Martin announced the launch of Strigo, a new defense system that integrates radio-frequency (RF) sensors, missile datalinks, and missile seeker technologies on Monday.
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[2026-08-12 03:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Bitcoin miner Riot Platform has struck a $9 billion, 20-year compute deal with Anthropic, CNBC's David Faber has confirmed.
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[2026-08-12 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BRUSSELS, Belgium — The EU said Tuesday Meta and TikTok had agreed to voluntary steps to boost fact-checking of harmful disinformation linked to the Ceuta migrant rush -- but did not rule out compelling the tech giants to do more.
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[2026-08-12 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced his departure on Tuesday, the latest in a series of recent leadership shakeups at the artificial intelligence company.
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[2026-08-12 02:31 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Federal Communications Commission on 28 July announced a ban on humanoid robots from China including the popular Unitree G1 model. The Guardian's technology journalist Nick Robins-Early explains the recent popularity of these trending robots and why the US government says they are a risk to the country's national security
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[2026-08-12 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Saturday that his country was about to open a UAV factory with Israeli company Elbit Systems.
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[2026-08-12 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Manus said Tuesday it will "soon resume operating as an independent company," after Chinese regulators in April demanded Meta unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup.
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[2026-08-12 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Jason Nelson via Decrypt.co,
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[2026-08-12 01:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List)
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[2026-08-12 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: 1. The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani, ESPN
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[2026-08-12 01:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Target announced it has appointed its first ever chief artificial intelligence officer on Tuesday in the retailer's latest bet to capitalize on the AI boom.
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[2026-08-12 01:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Countries are racing to expand their spy satellite fleets, as the war in Ukraine forces them to reconsider the intelligence they would rely on in a conflict, the CEO of a space-tech firm told CNBC.
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[2026-08-12 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Documentary films] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In her new documentary Replica, film-maker Chouwa Liang taps into her own experience of finding love with artificial intelligence and makes contact with other women like her
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[2026-08-12 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Yang Zhilin, who received his doctorate in the U.S., returned to China to cofound Kimi developer Moonshot AI. (Source photos by Reuters)
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[2026-08-12 00:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-12 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In this episode of the Defense and Tech Podcast, host Anna Ahronheim sits down with Yoni Heilbronn, co-founder and managing partner of IL Ventures, the Tel Aviv fund backing disruptive technology for legacy industries: logistics, smart manufacturing, robotics, and supply chain.
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[2026-08-12 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-11 23:40 UTC+10:00] [Spotify] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Music streaming platform creates ‘AI persona’ label that will appear on profiles and track listings in crackdown on fake performers
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[2026-08-11 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Pax Silica] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The two big tech powers are well ahead of the competition. The question now is whether a third big player can emerge
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