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…
Luminance, a legal AI platform founded in 2015 out of Cambridge mathematics research, has raised roughly $165 million across seven rounds, including a $75 million round to expand its legal agents, and…
The Linux Foundation has formally launched the Tokenomics Foundation, a vendor-neutral standards body established on Aug. 4 with 30 founding members including JPMorgan Chase, BNY, GoDaddy, Hitachi, Le…
Hitachi, which employs nearly 290,000 globally, has not deployed a single enterprise-wide AI tool, instead adopting a three-bucket strategy covering productivity tools like Microsoft Copilot and Googl…
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) signed an engineering contract with Texas-based Mousterian Corporation to develop floating data centers, each delivering 50 MW of critical IT capacity, with deployments …
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…
OpenAI cut the price of its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80%, citing self-optimization within its Sol model, a move that pressures Japan's domestic AI ambitions. The price drop, driven by internal updates th…
Hitachi announced plans to launch a cryptocurrency monitoring service for banks and crypto firms, with a rollout scheduled for October 2026. The Japanese industrial giant aims to help financial instit…
BNP Paribas's Green Tigers Fund, the top-performing dark green strategy in Asia, has returned 34% year-to-date by overweighting Japanese equities it sees as central to solving AI's surging electricity…
Hitachi Vantara achieved a 50 percent reduction in inventory and 77 percent reduction in order-to-ship lead times at its Norman, Oklahoma storage array manufacturing site by using HMAX agentic AI, ear…
Japan is building a massive datacenter powered by NVIDIA's Vera Rubin GPUs, targeting a June 2028 launch, as the country races to become an AI infrastructure heavyweight. The facility will use NVIDIA'…
NVIDIA introduced the Jetson T3000 and T2000 modules based on the Thor architecture, delivering 865 FP4 TeraFLOPS of AI compute in a compact form factor for mass-market robotics and edge AI. The modul…
Hitachi and Nvidia are deepening their collaboration on multi-agent orchestration technology to supercharge Hitachi's HMAX suite of enterprise AI solutions, building supervisor/worker agent models on …
NVIDIA announced that Japan's physical AI leaders, including AIRoA, FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation and Yaskawa Electric, intend…
NVIDIA introduced the Jetson T3000 and T2000 modules based on the NVIDIA Thor architecture to advance mainstream robotics and edge AI, with the T3000 delivering 865 FP4 teraflops of AI compute in a co…
NVIDIA announced that Japanese enterprises, startups and research institutions are building industry-specialized AI models and applications with NVIDIA Nemotron open models, data and libraries. Instit…
New data reveals that 88% of U.S. companies use AI in at least one business function versus 26% of Japanese firms, but Japanese manufacturers using AI reported 15% higher efficiency gains than U.S. co…
NVIDIA and Microsoft are jointly developing the DGX Station for Windows, a system designed to run hundreds of AI agents securely within enterprise Windows environments, targeting Japan's industrial se…
Samsung Electronics reported an 18-fold surge in second-quarter operating profit to 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), driven by rising memory chip prices amid AI demand, but a subsequent share slump …