China has unveiled humanoid robots that can sprint faster than any human alive, reigniting a debate among investors about whether the robotics trade is a genuine opportunity or a speculative bubble. A…
Japanese companies are deploying AI and sensor technology to boost indoor farming efficiency as the country's farmer numbers fall from about 2.05 million in 2010 to about 980,000 in 2026. Oishii Farm,…
A developer experimenting with a Tokyo public transit MCP server found that adding a SKILL.md guidance layer does not automatically improve agent performance. Across six evaluations, the skill layer h…
LeadAce, an outbound sales agent built as a Claude Code plugin by a small Tokyo software company, launched on Product Hunt on August 19 and received zero signups and only two upvotes. The company's an…
At an AI film festival in Tokyo last month, an 11-minute short from a child's perspective won the audience's heart, while the festival's winner was an animated tale about a man with a facial disfigure…
Tokyo is integrating climate and disaster resilience into daily life through AI-based flood-risk visualization, household rain gardens, and cooling clothing, as extreme weather becomes more common. To…
A University of Manchester study using AI-assisted simulations found that rooftop rainwater cooling systems could reduce air conditioning energy demand, lower urban temperatures, and cut the number of…
An engineer at lyr.jp measured round-trip times from Tokyo to AWS regions worldwide, finding a 5ms local latency versus 373ms to Cape Town—a 70x spread. The 166ms round trip to the US East Coast consu…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed concerns that the surge in AI investment will lead to a technology bubble, stating that demand remains strong and AI infrastructure must be built for at least a decad…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Thursday that AI growth is at the 'beginning' of a 10-to-15-year cycle and will never decline, comparing it to electricity, even as a tech rout drags down stocks. Huang sp…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Tokyo on July 15, meeting with AI supply chain partners including SEGA CEO Haruki Satomi and legendary game designer Yu Suzuki to celebrate the 30th anniversary of SEGA…
SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son predicts 1 billion humanoid robots will exist by 2040, saying 'the era when humans are the most superior beings will end.' Son also forecast 100 tri…
Tokyo's Arakawa ward has installed 33 AI-equipped outdoor security cameras with facial recognition to help locate missing children and elderly people with dementia, marking what the ward believes is t…
Yamanote.fun, a collaboration between Paul Jackson and Claude, offers a complete soundscape of Tokyo's Yamanote Line, featuring station melodies, announcements, door chimes, and train sounds for both …
Japan's government decided Tuesday to establish a new council to overhaul legal frameworks for AI development and use, as part of its 2026 basic policy guidelines. The council will prioritize AI trans…
Japan approved a new industrial strategy allocating 100 billion yen to rebuild its ship repair capacity, aiming to reduce dependence on China which handles 60% of global ship repairs and most of Japan…
A developer built AEGIS (Artificial Earth Global Intelligence System), an AI crisis command platform with persistent memory, during the Agent Memory Hackathon. The system uses Vectorize Hindsight to e…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed claims that the artificial intelligence boom is a bubble, calling such talk an 'insult' to AI at the company's annual shareholders' meeting in Tokyo. Son, whose So…
A developer known as shatolin published a Qiita post analyzing 'AI Agent Rules Meta-patterns for 2026,' warning that layered rule sets in AI agent systems create 'Cascading Rule Opacity'—a progressive…
Alibaba Cloud launched its fifth data center in Tokyo on June 18, 2024, just three months after opening its fourth, as part of an aggressive expansion in Japan. The new facility offers enterprise-grad…