Japan's industry ministry selected 18 regions as green transformation strategy areas, with nine designated for concentrating data centers, to attract domestic and foreign companies and investment thro…
U.S. lawmakers are calling for new rules to govern artificial intelligence after two Anthropic researchers warned that rapidly progressing AI could lead to human extinction. Anthropic researcher Jacob…
Japan designated 19 municipalities in Hokkaido's Tokachi region, including Obihiro, as national strategic special zones on Thursday to promote AI-powered agriculture, the first such designation for AI…
Tokyo-based startup MW plans to sell its first robot-equipped home in Tokyo by 2028 and build as many as 10,000 units a year by 2035, equal to 5% of new homes currently built in Japan, according to CE…
Anthropic said on Thursday it disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its Claude models over the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign and efforts by Ch…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after working at both Anthropic and OpenAI over the past three years, warning in a series of posts on X late Tuesday that the two companies are racing toward "self-…
Insilico Medicine's AI-discovered drug rentosertib reduced biological age in a midstage study of 42 patients with chronic lung disease, as measured by six aging clocks, according to an analysis publis…
South Korea's power demand is set to surge by 25 to 30 gigawatts due to AI-driven needs, according to Energy Minister Kim Sung-whan, as chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix expand production an…
Ahead of the U.S.-China summit in Washington this month, an op-ed argues that Presidents Trump and Xi should reframe their discussions on artificial intelligence away from competitive grievances and t…
Japan should focus on edge AI for factory floors rather than large data centers, according to a commentary highlighting deployments at Toyota, FANUC, and Musashi Seimitsu. Toyota's casting plant uses …
A beagle named Chloe at the Dognosis facility in Bengaluru, India, is being trained to sniff human breath for cancer using a 3D-printed helmet and sensors, with AI assistance, as part of efforts to de…
Japan's AI-driven economic revival plan, championed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi with a $640 billion investment target, is facing a reality check in Kitakami, a rural city 500 kilometers north of …
Japan's Supreme Court will test generative AI in civil trials in fiscal 2027, allocating ¥60 million in its first budget request for AI-related expenses. The court will use records of settled lawsuits…
Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency said Tuesday it will use generative AI to analyze about 900,000 annual fraud consultation cases, aiming to detect patterns similar to past investment scams and enable q…
Apple Inc. filed a court brief Monday accusing OpenAI of destroying evidence and using confidential Apple material, alleging that former iPhone engineer Chang Liu downloaded a confidential Apple circu…
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 …
Z.ai, a Beijing-based AI startup, released details of its latest model on Friday, claiming it is nearly as powerful as Silicon Valley's best, particularly in hacking and coding, as China's AI industry…
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay positioning Meta Platforms Inc. as the AI company that builds for people, contrasting it with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, which he says have compromised i…
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…
Anthropic released its Model Hardware Standard (MHS) under a research preview, enabling AI assistants like Claude to interact with robots and scientific and manufacturing hardware. The standard stores…