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Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office's special investigation squad conduct a search of Alt's headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 10, 2025
Former executives of AI developer Alt arrested for window-dressing
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission searched locations related to the company in April over the alleged window-dressing
Japan's top financial leaders are working to ease fears that AI will cost jobs, emphasizing its role in boosting efficiency and transforming work.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 10, 2025
Japan’s top bank CEOs push for AI, soothing worry over human work
In Japan, where the financial sector employs hundreds of thousands of people, the conversation over AI and its impact on work is picking up pace.
An ABB robot at the Sony U.K. Technology Centre in Pencoed, Wales
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2025
SoftBank to buy ABB’s robotics arm in $5.4 billion deal
The Japanese investment firm agreed to take over a business with more than 7,000 employees, which supplies industrial arms and robots.
Kipp Deveer, CEO of alternative asset management giant Ares Capital, has stressed the importance of being selective and measured when choosing data center investments.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2025
Data center boom at risk of overbuilding, says asset management giant Ares
Investments have poured into data center projects as a way to cash in on booming demand for processing power unleashed by the advent of artificial intelligence.
The "Text With Jesus" chatbot app displayed on an iPhone on Oct. 2.
WORLD / Society
Oct 8, 2025
Virtual Jesus? People of faith divided as AI enters religion
Religious chatbots and other faith-based digital tools are growing in number, offering counsel, comfort and spiritual guidance.
Elon Musk’s xAI, which raised about $10 billion of corporate equity and debt earlier this year, still needs billions more given the company has been burning through $1 billion per month.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 8, 2025
Nvidia to invest in Musk’s xAI as part of $20 billion funding
The massive capital raise is just the latest for the AI industry, which has seen major tech companies invest to build the infrastructure necessary to develop top AI models.
Masanaga Kageyama, the Japan Football Association's technical director
SOCCER
Oct 8, 2025
Japanese football official sentenced for viewing child sexual abuse images
Masanaga Kageyama, the association's technical director, was arrested last week during a stopover in Paris on the way to Chile to attend the Under-20 World Cup.
Japanese teachers work significantly longer hours than their peers in other countries, with time spent on extracurricular activities being a heavy burden, an OECD study shows.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2025
Teachers in Japan still work the longest hours, OECD survey finds
Teachers worked an average of over 50 hours per week, but much of it was spent on out-of-classroom work.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks in Washington in July.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2025
OpenAI signs multibillion dollar chip deal with AMD
The ChatGPT-maker is pushing ahead with an investment spree to secure massive amounts of computing power.
Emperor Naruhito delivers a speech at the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto on Sunday.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2025
Emperor makes speech in English at international forum in Kyoto
The emperor said that there are a host of challenging issues related to AI that "require careful, thoughtful deliberation."
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Oct 6, 2025
Competition heats up to challenge Nvidia's AI chip dominance
Nvidia now boasts the world's highest revenue, driven by sales of its GPUs — the processors that are key to building the technology behind ChatGPT and its rivals.
Construction is underway on a Project Stargate AI infrastructure site, a collaboration between three large tech companies — OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle — in Abilene, Texas, in April.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2025
Trump targets deals in pharma, AI, energy and mining before midterm elections
Washington is pursuing deals across up to 30 industries, involving dozens of companies deemed critical to national or economic security.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks at the main panel of Italian Tech Week 2025 in Turin, Italy, on Friday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 4, 2025
Data centers in space? Jeff Bezos says it's possible
The Amazon founder predicted that gigawatt-scale data centers will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years.
Hong Kong has already installed almost 4,000 CCTV cameras under a police crime-fighting program. That number will increase to a total of 60,000 by 2028, according to documents submitted to the legislature.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 4, 2025
Hong Kong to install surveillance cameras with AI facial recognition
The Chinese finance hub has already installed almost 4,000 CCTV cameras under a police crime-fighting program.
AI chip giant Nvidia announced last week that it would invest $100 billion to help OpenAI, the front-runner in generative AI, build data centers.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 3, 2025
Boom or bubble: How long can the AI investment craze last?
AI-related spending is soaring worldwide, expected to reach approximately $1.5 trillion by 2025, research has shown.
The Digital Agency will enable its employees to use OpenAI's cutting-edge large language model-based AI tools for their work.
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2025
Japan's Digital Agency to cooperate with OpenAI on administrative tools
The agency plans to provide its employees with access to generative AI tools and encourage other government agencies to adopt these services starting as early as fiscal year 2026.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends a private dinner for technology and business leaders hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Sept. 4.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 1, 2025
Trump and America’s tech giants: Coexistence or collaboration?
The impact of Trump’s policies on online platforms is also significant. During his first term, Big Tech faced intense antitrust pressure.
Kioxia has been aggressively investing in its main chip factories as it aims to close the gap to rivals Samsung and SK Hynix.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2025
Japan’s Kioxia sees AI driving strong memory growth for years
The Tokyo-based memory maker Kioxia anticipates demand for NAND storage will grow by roughly 20% each year as AI data center operators keep scaling up.
Huawei Technologies is regarded as China’s best hope of weaning itself off the foreign chips that power the world’s second-largest economy.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 30, 2025
Huawei to double output of top AI chip as Nvidia wavers in China
The Chinese company plans to make about 600,000 of its marquee 910C Ascend chips next year, a feat that would represent a technical breakthrough for it.
Oracle is among some of the firms expected to thrive in an artificial intelligence future.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 29, 2025
Magnificent Seven is passe, but what can take its place?
Wall Street’s most powerful collection of stocks is missing some of the firms that are also expected to thrive in an artificial intelligence future.

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