Japan’s second largest city, Osaka, has begun testing autonomous AI agents in local government in an attempt to ease the ...

SoftBank Group is deepening its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions through a new $3 billion deal with OpenAI, reinforcing ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru (right) holds a meeting with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (center) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 3, 2025.

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 ...

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to increase its budget for semiconductor and AI development to ...

As U.S. giants like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic race to develop the large language models that underpin their AI products, startups such as Sakana AI, Mistral AI, DeepSeek, and AI21 Labs are carving ...

Today, Microsoft Corporation (hereafter referred to as Microsoft) announced the expansion of its cloud infrastructure to boost AI performance and offer even more advanced computing resources to ...

Yahoo Japan is all in on AI. The company has ordered all employees to use generative AI, with the goal of doubling productivity within the next three years. Yahoo Japan has a plan. But is it all in ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. The transformational potential of AI is undisputed. In a ...