Japan and the Visegrad Four nations (Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary) agreed on Tuesday to strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies at a meet…
Japan's Defense Ministry submitted a record ¥8.9 trillion ($56 billion) budget request for fiscal 2027, the final year of a five-year, ¥43 trillion defense plan, which includes funding for AI-enabled …
Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency will launch a model project in fiscal 2027 to use AI in handling 119 emergency calls, introducing an AI-powered speech recognition system to transcribe call…
A new open-source tool, extract_masterlist.py, parses ICAO/BSI CSCA Master Lists and exports country signing CA certificates as PEM bundles or TSV manifests, handling 581 entries across 112 countries …
The VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF (NYSEARCA:NLR) offers a resilient AI growth investment by focusing on nuclear power and uranium miners, which are essential for data center electricity demand and ge…
Japan's government has unveiled an "AI Robotics Strategy" aiming to position the country as a leading "third pole" in AI robotics alongside the US and China, targeting the domestic deployment of 10 mi…
Taiwan is on track for its first year of double-digit GDP growth since 2010, driven by AI hardware exports, while Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, mainland China, and South Korea all reported over 20% expo…
Japan's defence ministry is preparing to request a record 8.9 trillion yen (US$56.1 billion) budget for the 2027 financial year, with major outlays planned for drones, AI-enabled command systems, long…
China is pioneering a more cost-efficient pathway in the embodied AI race, which could lower innovation barriers for developing countries, according to Yu Chao, founder and CEO of Lumos Robotics. The …
Six in 10 senior business and IT leaders, robotics specialists, and government and healthcare officials expect their organizations to operate robot fleets within five years, but only four in 10 curren…
AI News Digest for August 20 reports 30 AI stories, including H200 chips quietly entering China despite export controls, CISA issuing an advisory about AI-generated malware, Japan requiring AI firms t…
Japan's government panel approved a plan to require AI firms to disclose training data under a 'principle code' for generative AI businesses, aiming to protect intellectual property rights. The code, …
The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must choose sides in the artificial intelligence race with China, warning they will be excluded from the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative if they a…
The United States is warning allied nations against joining Chinese-led artificial intelligence initiatives, a pressure campaign backed by export controls on semiconductors and AI chips that have been…
Japan's June trade deficit and the yen's slide reveal structural economic decay as its auto sector loses ground in the electric vehicle transition, with Chinese competitors leading in battery costs, s…
Dr Andy Xie, an independent economist, argues that the US intervention to prop up the Japanese yen will fail within weeks, and that the same fundamental weakness threatens the US AI bubble. He cites J…
The White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy released a report on Thursday identifying South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the European Union, and dozens of other economies as facing 'elevated' tr…
The Trump administration has deployed an AI-powered 'detective border' system to intercept goods illegally transshipped to evade US tariffs on Chinese products, with over 40 countries named as partici…
A Japanese law criminalizing acts that publicly damage, remove, or deface the national flag came into force Thursday, imposing penalties of up to 2 years in prison or a fine of up to 200,000 yen. The …
OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT Ads test to the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea on August 11, following the initial U.S. launch on February 9. The ads appear below responses for free…