Americans and Chinese both fear artificial intelligence as a tool for information warfare, according to a new assessment. Industrialized nations including the United States, China, Europe, Russia, Jap…
Sakana AI has formally established the Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab, a dedicated research group tasked with developing autonomous AI systems that can improve themselves through continuous, evo…
The Japanese and U.S. governments announced a five-year, $1 billion plan on Thursday to jointly develop scientific technologies using artificial intelligence, with each country contributing $500 milli…
A fictional wargame scenario involving a Chinese AI system malfunctioning and killing US soldiers in a Taiwan standoff illustrates how artificial intelligence could inadvertently trigger a nuclear esc…
Fortune's 2026 analysis shows Nvidia's $4.24 trillion market capitalization exceeds Japan's $4.03 trillion GDP, making the chipmaker larger than the world's fourth-largest economy if treated as a coun…
A developer used a local Japanese sentiment AI (BERT) to analyze 87,621 messages from an 8-year LINE chat history, running entirely on a DGX Spark to keep the private conversation data on-device. By s…
Japan's Finance Minister Katayama announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to provide Japanese financial institutions with priority access to the company's newest, unreleased models. Microsoft, O…
OpenAI has granted Japanese banks access to its latest artificial intelligence model, Japan's finance minister announced. The move aims to enhance the financial sector's efficiency and competitiveness…
Superintelligence developed by US companies and run on US data centers will massively boost US military and economic power, potentially leaving middle powers like the UK, Europe, Japan, South Korea, a…
Researchers in Japan fine-tuned the LLaVA-1.5-7B vision-language model on up to 4,000 bridge damage images to automate damage assessment and repair priority scoring, addressing significant inter-rater…
Taiwan has launched an investigation into an alleged smuggling operation that used Japan as a transit hub to funnel restricted Nvidia AI chips to China. Three suspects were detained on May 21, and aut…
Taiwanese prosecutors detained three suspects on May 21 for allegedly smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China by routing shipments through Japan using forged export documents. Authorities seized approximat…
Taiwanese prosecutors charged three individuals with forging export documents to reroute approximately 50 Supermicro AI servers, valued at over $15 million, to mainland China via Japan. The suspects a…