A new poll by London-based consultancy Public First shows that respondents from 11 out of 15 countries believe China's AI models are leading the global tech race, including key US allies like Canada, …
SoftBank and OpenAI launched a cybersecurity service called "Patching as a Service" on Tuesday, designed to protect Japan's critical infrastructure from AI-powered cyberattacks. The service uses OpenA…
Specialist tech recruiter SThree reported a 19% drop in net fees across the UK in the first half of the year, reflecting a broader hiring slump in the region. The decline was driven by companies pausi…
Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi will propose a 'Joint Stockpiling Partnership Initiative' for critical minerals at the G7 summit, aiming to de-risk global supply chains from concentrated single-nation…
The United Kingdom and Japan finalized a $24 billion investment and technology partnership covering AI, semiconductors, quantum tech, and life sciences, expected to create tens of thousands of jobs. P…
The United Kingdom and Japan are finalizing a technology and investment partnership worth over £18 billion ($24 billion), covering artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, and dual-…
Japan faces the Netherlands in a critical Group F opener at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on June 14 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Japan, ranked 18th, employs a high-pressing style, while the Netherlands, r…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed an £18bn investment deal with Japan to boost post-Brexit trade, including nuclear research with Rolls-Royce and AI investment from Eisai. However, the deal faces …
The United States may be uniquely positioned to implement universal healthcare due to its institutional strengths in transparency, oversight, and decentralized authority, argues a writer who experienc…
Cameron Schuler, chief commercialization officer at the Vector Institute, urged stronger Japan-Canada AI collaboration in an interview with Jiji Press, naming manufacturing, financial services, and li…
Japan and Canada can collaborate more closely to accelerate real-world AI adoption, according to Cameron Schuler, chief commercialization officer at the Vector Institute. He identified manufacturing, …
China's export curbs on tungsten have caused the price of tungsten hexafluoride, a critical gas for AI chip manufacturing, to triple year-on-year, threatening Japan's semiconductor supply chain. Japan…
A recent case in Japan involving an 18-year-old assault victim who sought help from an AI chatbot after experiencing domestic violence has ignited a national debate about trust in artificial intellige…
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…
A newsletter explores the feasibility of space-based data centres, criticizes government energy policy during a supply crisis, and highlights Japan's railway efficiency.…