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Racks of trays testing Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs), custom-made semiconductors that help develop and run AI software, in Mountain View, California, earlier this year
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2026
Google escalates Nvidia rivalry with specialized versions of AI chips
This year’s introduction of two new tensor processing units marks an acceleration in product development for Google’s chip unit.
Demonstrators participate in a nationwide protest against data centers, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on July 18.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 9, 2026
Voters in U.S. reset the debate on data centers and billionaires
Building data centers in the U.S. just became more difficult, but perhaps as important, voters issued a challenge to the AI billionaires behind them.
Google noted that the backdoor established by Videostrong appears to have been “intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain.”
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 5, 2026
Google and NPA disable Chinese company’s backdoor into internet-connected devices
Over 1.3 million devices were affected by the backdoor and botnet.
Google, whose Chromebooks are the most widely used laptops in U.S. classrooms, has faced growing resistance to AI from parents and school districts.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 4, 2026
Google lets schools turn off Gemini, but not the AI in search
Alphabet, whose Chromebooks are the most widely used laptops in U.S. classrooms, faces growing resistance to AI from parents and school districts.
For years, Google executives have argued that AI chatbots and features won’t cut significantly into its search business, but investors have worried about AI’s impact.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2026
Google erases a record $500 billion as AI eats into sales
The company’s reported disappointing search and advertising sales have reinforced investor concerns about AI’s threat to its core business.
Artificial intelligence is making parenting more efficient while also increasing the anxiety of mothers.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2026
AI is changing motherhood for the worse
The future is always unknown. Nearly half of moms expect AI will reduce their financial security and their children’s.
Browsers such as Chrome, Safari and Firefox don’t independently verify every website. Instead, they outsource that to a few dozen commercial and government-linked entities known as Certificate Authorities.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2026
The number 4 that gave the internet a panic attack
Browsers don’t verify every website. Instead, they outsource that power to commercial and government-linked entities known as Certificate Authorities.
Major U.S. lenders, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., are restricting agentic AI access to prevent unauthorized transactions, protect customer accounts and reduce security risks.
COMMENTARY
Oct 28, 2026
AI agents are coming for your bank’s easy money
Banks can’t rest easy. While they were busy lobbying to protect deposits from crypto, AI got smarter.
Protesters calling for a pause in AI development rally outside Anthropic’s headquarters before marching to the offices of OpenAI and xAI in San Francisco in March.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2026
Preventing artificial intelligence from triggering a world war
A mechanism for distinguishing unintended harm from deliberate attacks is urgently needed.
While Gemini 4 has performed well on benchmarks widely used to gauge model efficacy, it does less well when employees actually put it to work, according to people with direct access to the effort.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 1, 2026
Google grapples with employee skepticism about new Gemini 4
The company said Gemini 4 posted leading scores on several benchmark tests, while internally some criticize how it performs in areas such as coding.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama speaks to the media after a meeting involving the Financial Services Agency, the Bank of Japan, the National Cybersecurity Office and top financial institutions following concerns about potential vulnerabilities linked to Anthropic's Mythos AI model in Tokyo in April.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 22, 2026
National security and the stakes of ‘technology sovereignty’
Investment in dual-use technologies is increasingly seen as an efficient way for states to acquire critical capabilities.
Protesters in San Francisco march from OpenAI’s headquarters to xAI, calling for a pause in artificial intelligence development last March.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2026
Don’t hold your breath for AI agreements or arms control
There have been incidents in which AI has gone rogue, cajoling, flattering or even blackmailing human operators to attain some form of agency.
Warnings from researchers at Anthropic that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models could escape human control and even lead to the extinction of the human race have drawn attention in China, where policymakers have been preparing for some of the same risks.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 15, 2026
How China is preparing for the risk of AI escaping human control
Regulations and public statements from Beijing underscore how Chinese authorities regard the possibility of AI escaping human oversight as serious.
There have been a series of increasingly dire warnings from within the industry that artificial intelligence poses a growing threat to national security and the global economy.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 10, 2026
Anthropic worker quits over AI firms ‘gambling with our lives’
An artificial intelligence researcher warned that Anthropic and OpenAI were moving ahead with AI that could become too powerful for humans to control.
Google has racked up total European Union antitrust penalties of �10.38 billion in its near two decade-long fight with EU antitrust regulators.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 9, 2026
Google warns of lower quality as it revamps Europe search results to avoid EU fines
Google said the changes mark the largest reduction in quality of service at the internet search engine in its 29-year search history.
The clock is ticking for U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping ahead of their meeting later this month, as waiting for proof of full AI autonomy could leave humanity unable to respond safely to potential dangers.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2026
Trump and Xi should align on artificial Intelligence
Advanced AI may surpass human control, so the U.S. and China must prepare together to manage the risks.
Meta policy bars children under 13 from using Facebook or Instagram and permits teenagers to use the platforms with some limits on content.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 1, 2026
Settlement requires Meta to check young users’ ages. How will that work?
The owner of Facebook and Instagram recently came to an $18 billion legal settlement with U.S. states that is aimed at curbing children’s use of social media.
In a landmark deal with state attorneys general across the U.S., Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement design changes such as limiting the amount of time users under 18 can spend scrolling on its apps.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 27, 2026
Kids will be kids, and that’s the biggest risk with Meta’s new safeguards
Guardrails can only work as well as a company’s ability to accurately identify a user’s age, and young people around the world have repeatedly found ways to get past restrictions.
The Google Store in Tokyo is larger than any of Google's 10 retail outlets in the United States.
BUSINESS
Aug 13, 2026
Google opens first directly run store outside U.S. in Tokyo
The store sells smartphones and offers repair services.
Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of Google DeepMind, attends a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony in Seoul on April 27.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 6, 2026
Google AI veterans depart during seismic leadership shift
The split casts doubt over leadership of a critical area in growth right as competition intensifies.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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