Preferred Networks, the Tokyo AI startup valued at roughly $2 billion, is opening its books to foreign investors for the first time and eyeing an IPO in three to five years to fund mass production of …
A Nikkei survey of 26 major Japanese data center operators found that 22 plan to quadruple AI-focused capacity by 2033, backed by roughly 10 trillion yen ($60 billion) in investment. NTT leads with 1.…
Seven Japanese telecoms and technology companies—KDDI, NTT, Rakuten Mobile, NEC, 1Finity, Oki Electric Industry, and Sumitomo Electric Industries—secured approval from the ITU-T for the Y.3335 standar…
OpenAI has halted reinforcement learning for its next-generation Astra model to strengthen safety measures, marking a shift from policy debates to engineering constraints in AI development. The pause,…
Anthropic is rolling out an invisible watermarking system for its Claude AI model worldwide, using Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text protocol to comply with the EU AI Act, a move that sets the strictest …
NTT Data Group, Japan's largest data center operator and a unit of government-backed NTT, plans to spend at least ¥1.5 trillion ($9.6 billion) through 2033 to quadruple its computing capacity to 1 gig…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI users pay a 'double cost' of money and 'unique knowledge,' validating Japan's industrial policy of pursuing domestic AI to control data sovereignty and intel…
Rapidus, a Japanese semiconductor startup backed by eight major firms including Toyota and Sony, is pursuing 2-nanometer logic production with a pilot line operating in Chitose since April 2025 and ma…
NTT completed a proof of concept in early 2026 showing that AI training workloads can be moved to remote sites powered by renewable energy without significant performance loss, cutting energy use by u…
Japan's top five chipmaking equipment suppliers reported a 10% drop in China sales, marking a first-time decrease that signals Beijing's success in building domestic semiconductor capabilities. The de…