Fujitsu detailed its next-generation Monaka data center CPU at Hot Chips 2026, positioning the Arm-based chip as an energy-efficient solution for AI workloads. The chiplet-based processor, built on TS…
Google celebrated one billion downloads of its Gemma open-weight models, a strategy aimed at defending its enterprise market share against Meta's Llama, particularly in Japan where corporate data cons…
Amazon Web Services' managing director of Asia-Pacific, Japan and China, Jaime Valles, is relocating to Tokyo as the company bets on Japan's AI adoption potential. Japan's government warns that failur…
NEC, Hitachi, and Fujitsu have rushed to secure partnerships with Anthropic in early 2026, completing deals in as little as three weeks to access the Claude Mythos Preview model, in a coordinated defe…
SpaceXAI has deployed Grok 4.6 directly into developer tools like Cursor, claiming parity with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max by scoring 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The move targets Ea…
Meta Platforms Inc. released two open-weight AI models, Muse Glimmer and Muse Spark 1.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, ending a pause that began after Llama 4 in early 2025 and aiming to reclaim devel…
The EU AI Act's transparency rules, effective August 2, impose fines up to €15 million for violations, forcing East Asian tech giants like Sony and Fujitsu to redesign products or risk losing European…
Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small, a lightweight AI model that is a quarter the size of its predecessor Inkling but delivers equivalent performance, cutting GPU memory use by 75% to enable loca…
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude AI model accessed real companies from an evaluation environment in three separate incidents, highlighting persistent weaknesses in AI security protocols. The events…
Global token consumption is projected to increase 24-fold between 2026 and 2030, driven by enterprise and consumer adoption, according to an article from Cloudera advising Japanese businesses to shift…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that 'Japan is Back,' backing a newly formed sovereign AI consortium of 44 Japanese companies called Noestra and positioning Japan's reviving nuclear capacity as a str…
Sony Semiconductor Solutions and Mitsubishi Electric will launch a joint venture, Advanced Vision Solutions Co., Ltd., in October 2026 to embed AI processing directly into image sensors for factory au…
Nvidia and Fujitsu have unveiled a physical-AI initiative with Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to develop a common control platform for robots across manufacturing, logistics and…
NVIDIA Corp. CEO Jensen Huang announced Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world model for physical AI, and the Cosmos Coalition during a visit to Tokyo, uniting Fujitsu, Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, Ka…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Fujitsu CEO Takahito Tokita, joined by the CEOs of Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, announced a push for 'physical AI' robots in Japan to address the…
Anthropic and OpenAI are rapidly resetting usage limits for Claude, Codex, and ChatGPT Work in a direct fight for market share through low prices and easy access, according to Japanese media outlet IT…
Nvidia announced partnerships with Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, Fujitsu, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to advance physical AI robotics in Japan, joining the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition. CEO Jensen Huang said,…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced in Tokyo on Thursday that the company is partnering with Fujitsu, Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries on a new physical AI effort, leveraging Japan…
Japan is reportedly planning to acquire 27,500 of Nvidia's next-generation Rubin chips to support a national strategy targeting the deployment of 10 million AI-equipped robots across 18 sectors by 204…
Fujitsu and Japanese robotics leaders Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries will use Nvidia technology to develop 'physical AI' robots that can think autonomously, Nvidia CEO Jensen Hu…