1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (164+ words) From toilets to fiber optics, Japan's unlikely AI players'The Japan Times A Japanese maker of high-tech toilets has been causing a splash in the world of artificial intelligence.Activist investor Palliser Capital recently called on the management of Toto, best…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (128+ words) Google to provide Pentagon with AI agents for unclassified work'The Japan Times Alphabet's Google is introducing artificial intelligence agents across the Pentagon's 3 million-strong workforce to automate routine jobs, according to a senior defense official.Google's Gemini AI agents, which can…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (194+ words) Anthropic's partners are making a deal with the AI devil'The Japan Times Anthropic PBC made an announcement late last month that flew under the radar Having sparked selloffs in the equity market with a relentless stream of product updates, the…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (182+ words) The Digital Agency said Friday it will start in May a large-scale test of its generative artificial intelligence platform for administrative tasks, involving some 180,000 staff workers at all government agencies and ministries. Through the test, the agency aims to ascertain…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (250+ words) AI is proving a 100-year-old prediction true'The Japan Times Great minds go off on odd tangents In 1930, John Maynard Keynes took time out from thinking about the Great Depression, which was throwing millions out of work, to write a charming…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (140+ words) Pentagon feud with Anthropic shines light on AI's role in mass surveillance'The Japan Times Anthropic's clash with the Pentagon is drawing fresh attention to a lightly regulated practice: the U.S government's purchase of commercially available information, such as browsing histories…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (191+ words) AI leaders may spend billions only to lose the market'The Japan Times I recently asked Claude to help me think through the structure of my next book I already knew where the weak point was " I just wanted to see…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (321+ words) Nintendo relies heavily on sea freight to transport its $450 console from assembly hubs in Asia. Its shares fell as much as 4.7% in Tokyo on Monday, underperforming the benchmark TOPIX's decline. Nintendo's shares fell the most in almost a month, hurt…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1620+ words) When Hayao Miyazaki was shown an artificial intelligence system capable of generating crude animation in 2016, his response was blunt: "I am utterly disgusted." The Studio Ghibli co-founder " whose films include the 1997 epic "Princess Mononoke" and the 2001 Oscar-winning "Spirited Away" " also…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago  (24+ words) Nearly half of Japanese high school students use AI, report shows'The Japan Times Nearly half of Japanese high school students use AI, report shows...