Presenting Sentinel - Gen AI Zürich Hackathon Winner

When Ali Aoun Mehdi watched two major global news outlets report opposite facts during the Iran-US conflict, he saw a critical problem: misinformation spreading in real-time. From Islamabad, participating virtually in the Gen AI Zürich Hackathon, he built Sentinel to close this “fact-gap” by detecting contradictions across news sources instantly. Sentinel is an AI-powered early warning system that monitors 20 global news sources every 30 minutes. It identifies factual contradictions in under 30 seconds, providing users with a misinformation risk score and narrative traction assessment.

Source: Qdrant | 2026-04-29