Topic: Technology — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-01 18:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Microsoft is planning to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in the latest round of layoffs that could be announced as early as next week, Business Insider reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
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[2026-07-01 18:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Defense Minister Israel Katz has issued sanctions against 37 cryptocurrency wallets associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, his office announced on Wednesday.
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[2026-07-01 17:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Law, Crime and Justice
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[2026-07-01 17:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- Strategic cooperation between South Korea and the United States, particularly in nuclear energy and cutting-edge technologies, will bring greater benefits to both countries and make their alliance more capable and future-oriented, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun has said.
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[2026-07-01 17:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom; CHANGES photo)
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[2026-07-01 17:16 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-07-01 17:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Plan sets target of 50,000 industrial 5G private networks by 2030, with industrial internet sector’s value added to exceed 2.5 trillion yuan
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[2026-07-01 17:09 UTC+10:00] [AI] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Plan sets target of 50,000 industrial 5G private networks by 2030, with industrial internet sector’s value added to exceed 2.5 trillion yuan
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[2026-07-01 16:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean stocks ended by more than 2 pct Wednesday as investors locked in gains following recent artificial intelligence-fueled rallies in semiconductor shares, amid uncertainty over fragile US-Iran peace talks. The Korean won weakened against the US dollar.
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[2026-07-01 16:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with more details in paras 7-13)
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[2026-07-01 16:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks ended by more than 2 pct Wednesday as investors locked in gains following recent artificial intelligence-fueled rallies in semiconductor shares, amid uncertainty over fragile U.S.-Iran peace talks. The Korean won weakened against the U.S. dollar.
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[2026-07-01 16:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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[2026-07-01 16:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. private equity giant KKR will take management control of a new $1.3 billion renewable energy platform in South Korea, deepening its bet on growing demand for clean power from chipmakers and artificial intelligence data centers.
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[2026-07-01 16:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how Trump now derives most of his income from digital assets that have benefited from his policies, according to a review of his latest financial disclosures on Tuesday.
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[2026-07-01 15:57 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australian authors who successfully sued artificial intelligence giant Anthropic for covertly scraping their work are urging the government to stand its ground against lobbying from the sector to weaken domestic copyright laws.
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[2026-07-01 15:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The string of acquisitions by Indian software exporters, such as Persistent System's deal to buy Germany-based Nagarro, underscores the urgency of building a bulwark as challenges mount, such as from AI. (Nikkei montage/Source photo by Persistent's website)
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[2026-07-01 15:41 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: SK Inc. said Wednesday it will partner with US private equity firm KKR to launch South Korea’s largest renewable energy company, consolidating group-wide clean energy assets to meet rising power demand from artificial intelligence data centers and semiconductor plants.
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[2026-07-01 15:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how Mr Trump now derives most of his income from digital assets that have benefitted from his policies, according to a review of his latest financial disclosures on Tuesday.
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[2026-07-01 15:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 in Seoul on Tuesday presented AI mobility as far more than autonomous vehicles or transport technology, portraying it instead as an industrial ecosystem spanning manufacturing, logistics, energy, data and international cooperation.
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[2026-07-01 15:08 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: CJ CheilJedang is replacing its food-and-bio framework with a three-division structure — lifestyle food, technology materials and core ingredients — as it reallocates capital to higher-growth businesses.
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[2026-07-01 15:06 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: VIP speakers opening the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 on Tuesday urged South Korea to use artificial intelligence to expand its mobility industry beyond manufacturing and into services, data and global partnerships.
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[2026-07-01 15:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- SK Group retained the No. 1 position over Samsung Group in annual operating profit last year, driven by the strong performance of its chipmaking affiliate, SK hynix Inc., amid an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven semiconductor supercycle, industry data showed Wednesday.
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[2026-07-01 14:53 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The contest that will shape the next era of mobility is not over who builds the best cars or aircraft, but over who controls the artificial intelligence beneath them, Obaid Al Ketbi told the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 on Tuesday.
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[2026-07-01 14:38 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-07-01 14:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Companies are rapidly changing their minds that artificial intelligence can "do it all" by rehiring employees to propel their businesses forward, as investors fret over the longevity of the ongoing AI boom happening in the financial markets.
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[2026-07-01 14:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- The chief of the country's stock market operator said Wednesday that the tech-heavy KOSDAQ market will further develop via strengthened transparency backed by a series of revamp measures.
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[2026-07-01 14:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump earned more than $US1.4 billion ($2 billion) from several cryptocurrency ventures, according to his latest financial disclosure.
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[2026-07-01 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong says city is proactively preparing for paradigm shift with key AI initiatives
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[2026-07-01 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong says city is proactively preparing for paradigm shift with key AI initiatives
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[2026-07-01 13:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Qualcomm's Dragonfly line of AI data center products is up against chip giant Nvidia's offerings. (Source photos by Ken Kobayashi)
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[2026-07-01 13:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump earned more than $1.4 billion from his family's crypto-related ventures alone last year, according to a financial disclosure released Tuesday, including from his meme coin business and his family's cryptocurrency firm.
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[2026-07-01 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s ‘milestone’ mandate seen authorising retaliatory responses to trade barriers while restricting research leaks
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[2026-07-01 13:00 UTC+10:00] [trade barriers] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s ‘milestone’ mandate seen authorising retaliatory responses to trade barriers while restricting research leaks
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[2026-07-01 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- Seoul's antitrust watchdog said Wednesday it has launched an investigation into U.S.-based Google LLC, as well as its Singaporean and South Korean offices, over allegations of violations of the fair trade law involving game developers on its app marketplace.
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[2026-07-01 12:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks returned earlier gains late Wednesday morning, as investors offloaded semiconductors and large-cap tech shares.
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[2026-07-01 12:09 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The chief of the country's financial regulator said Wednesday that the National Growth Fund, a mega-sized investment fund aimed at nurturing key industrial sectors, will help finance the emerging physical artificial intelligence sector.
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[2026-07-01 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The unveiling of model U1, which has silicone skin and emotional AI, reflects tech firms’ drive to expand robotics beyond industrial use
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[2026-07-01 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Optimus] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The unveiling of model U1, which has silicone skin and emotional AI, reflects tech firms’ drive to expand robotics beyond industrial use
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[2026-07-01 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- The chief of the country's financial regulator said Wednesday that the National Growth Fund, a mega-sized investment fund aimed at nurturing key industrial sectors, will help finance the emerging physical artificial intelligence (AI) sector.
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[2026-07-01 11:52 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A Russian youth team is in Australia competing in an international cybersecurity and artificial intelligence competition despite repeated warnings from spy agencies that Moscow is a malicious state cyber actor.
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[2026-07-01 11:51 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The AI company was forced earlier this month to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals
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[2026-07-01 11:50 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON – CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday compared the capabilities of the most advanced artificial intelligence models to nuclear weapons in a tacit defense of Washington’s recent hard line on controlling the release of the most powerful AI technology.
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[2026-07-01 11:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The US government removed foreign access restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos AI models, clearing it for wider distribution after the AI company resolved the Trump administration’s safety controls, less than three weeks after the company was ordered to suspend access to its most advanced AI models over national security risks.
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[2026-07-01 11:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's industry ministry on Wednesday denied recent rumors that the government is pushing to establish a new think tank tasked with utilizing chipmakers' massive profits generated by the global artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
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[2026-07-01 10:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Krithpaka Boonfueng, executive director of Thailand's National Innovation Agency, speaks at a business conference in Bangkok on June 26. (Photo by Apornrath Phoongohongphiphat)
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[2026-07-01 09:44 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are making one of the biggest bets yet on the artificial intelligence boom with investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but the planned capacity buildout is stoking fears of a painful reckoning if AI spending cools.
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[2026-07-01 09:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Cyberattacks aimed at stealing American artificial intelligence technology are increasingly expanding from tech-based attacks to the exploitation of human-level vulnerabilities, with China-based actors playing a growing role.
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[2026-07-01 09:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A new government report has shown that United States President Donald Trump made millions from cryptocurrency and settlements with media companies last year, raising questions about possible conflicts of interest.
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[2026-07-01 09:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The government ethics disclosure report shows Trump now earns most of his income from digital assets that have benefited from his policies
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[2026-07-01 09:05 UTC+10:00] [World Liberty Financial] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The government ethics disclosure report shows Trump now earns most of his income from digital assets that have benefited from his policies
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