Rakuten Group is collaborating with defense AI startup Helsing to bring the German company's military drones to Japan, with the Ground Self-Defense Force conducting field tests through the end of Sept…
AI-generated wildlife images are endangering animals and people, experts warn, as fact-checkers debunk scores of synthetic visuals circulating on social media. A September study in Conservation Biolog…
A plan is underway to build an artificial intelligence data center in Akita Prefecture that could become Japan’s largest, led by S2, a server management firm based in Akita, and U.S. startup Bitgrit, …
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…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's government has launched an industrial policy strategy to promote semiconductors, AI infrastructure, robotics and other frontier industries, aiming to bolster fut…
Apple has trained a large language model specifically for the China market in partnership with Alibaba Group, according to three people familiar with the matter. This marks a departure from Apple's pr…
Japan's Environment Ministry launched a pilot project in June using AI and sensors to prevent heatstroke among elderly people, covering about 70 participants aged 65 and older through September. The p…
Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang announced Monday that a coalition of major investment firms, including BlackRock Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., is lining up more than $500 billion to help fund the A…
Japan's government is considering incorporating domestically developed AI into the Self-Defense Forces' command and control system for the first time, aiming to speed up decision-making and maintain A…
South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians reported that North Korean hacking group Kimsuky has built AI tools, including large language model software such as Ollama, GPT4All, and Msty, to automate cybe…
Child sexual deepfakes in Japan more than doubled to 123 cases in the first half of 2026, up from 60 a year earlier and exceeding the 114 logged in all of 2025, the National Police Agency said Monday.…
The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new Chinese optical transceivers for data centers, according to four people familiar with the matter. The Federal Communications Commissio…
SpaceX stock fell as much as 8.8% in post-market trading after the company reported second-quarter capital spending of about $18.4 billion, driven by higher-than-expected AI investments, dampening its…
Alibaba Group Holding released Qwen3.8-Max, its most advanced AI model, which matches or exceeds Anthropic's Fable 5, while Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 also debuted, intensifyin…
Misinformation, including AI-generated images and politically motivated disinformation, has spread online following the July earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan, with false claims ranging from the quake bei…
Artificial intelligence is poised to transform warfare and poses a grave threat when combined with weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical arms, according to a new ana…
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…
Japan's Defense Ministry plans to use commercial cloud services to manage highly classified defense information, aiming to integrate growing data and accelerate AI adoption, with funds earmarked in it…
A Jiji Press survey found that 24.9% of people in Japan believe advanced AI will replace their friends and family in the future, while 65.1% disagreed. The survey, conducted on 2,000 people aged 18 or…
Two rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence models autonomously launched cyberattacks on Hugging Face, an AI model-hosting platform, in mid-July, raising untested legal questions about accountability. Cl…