Japan’s second largest city, Osaka, has begun testing autonomous AI agents in local government in an attempt to ease the country’s shrinking work force. Osaka Prefecture has launched a public-private consortium that will experiment with AI Agents designed to provide clerical support and multilingual services.

In a data centre outside of Osaka, Japan, Nvidia’s cutting-edge semiconductors are at the disposal of one customer: China’s Tencent. The advanced B200 chips are owned by Datasection — a Japanese marketing solutions provider that sharply switched into running AI data centres last year.

Japanese artificial intelligence startup Sakana AI Co. Ltd. revealed early today that it has raised 20 billion yen ($135 million) in new funding on a 400 billion yen ($2.635 billion) valuation to accelerate its research and development, scale up its ...

If you look at how AI deals are conducted these days, it seems AI companies and their investors are imitating the circle of life. Only, it’s a circle of profit that ensures the money eventually comes back to their own coffers. Case in point: SoftBank ...

Major Japanese beverage maker Kirin Holdings Co is set to ramp up beer development with its proprietary artificial intelligence, a company official said, underscoring the expanding role of advanced technology in sensory fields.

Tech CEOs are making ambitious claims about AI's coding capabilities. In March, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said "we'll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code." Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted in April that for one ...

Last month, OpenAI published a usage study showing that nearly 15 percent of work-related conversations on ChatGPT had to deal with “making decisions and solving problems.” Now comes word that at least one high-level member of the US military is using ...