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A volunteer stops along a trail while collecting readings from rain gauges as part of a community effort to anticipate heavy rains that could trigger flooding and mudslides, in Quebrada San Antonio de Pedregal, Lima, on Oct. 23.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / ANALYSIS
Nov 11, 2026
Disaster warning systems race to keep pace with galloping climate risks
A rock and ice avalanche and flood in Nepal in August that left thousands of people dead, injured or missing showed that all systems have limits.
The European Union is set to unveil new rules to, among other things, force platforms to give users the right to turn off "addictive" features.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2026
EU to make addictive app features easier to switch off
Official data showed “problematic” digital practices led to losses for individuals reaching �10.3 billion ($11.5 billion) a year.
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Nov 11, 2026
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
Last week’s U.S. midterm congressional elections have highlighted just how strong opposition to data center construction has become.
Microsoft, along with other companies and trade groups, is making a case that a ban on imports of Chinese optical transceivers could irreparably damage the U.S. edge over China in the AI race.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2026
Microsoft presses Trump to scuttle ban on Chinese data center tech
At stake are imports new models of Chinese optical transceivers, which allow data to travel over fiber-optic cables within data centers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19. As the speed of artificial intelligence development has become increasingly controversial, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is among those calling for top AI labs to "pace the frontier” in order to prioritize safety.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2026
Anthropic targets $64.4 billion IPO, nearing SpaceX’s record
At the top of the price range, Anthropic would have a market value of about $1 trillion, based on the shares outstanding listed in the filing.
SoftBank is increasingly seen as a proxy for sentiment toward OpenAI and the broader AI sector. Its shares have plunged more than 50% from their record high in June.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2026
SoftBank logs $7 billion loss after U.S. data center costs swell
Analysts on average expected a profit of more than $800 million.
Sakana AI might list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange or Nasdaq, or it may choose a dual listing on both.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 10, 2026
Sakana AI may go public in 2027
Press reports say that the company is considering the Tokyo Stock Exchange or Nasdaq or a dual listing on both.
The Dawning Information Industry's Sugon Dawn 8000 display at its booth at the World AI Conference in Shanghai last July
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 10, 2026
China’s innovation thrives on openness, even under authoritarian rule
Open technologies in its AI sector are challenging conventional views of Beijing’s model.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is considered a key figure in effective altruism’s early days, although he now denies any link.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2026
Under fire over AI, effective altruism wants to tell its own story
The movement, with close ties to the AI industry, has drawn mainstream attention and accusations of cult-like behavior and alarmism.
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
JAPAN / Media
Nov 9, 2026
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
The planned app would target young people overseas, allowing them to have AI-powered conversations in Japanese with popular anime characters.
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.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted on Sunday that he'd had an affair and said the Nvidia board was launching an investigation.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 9, 2026
Nvidia CEO’s affair engulfs AI giant in Chinese spying probe
In a memo to employees, Jensen Huang left no doubt that the chip colossus was embroiled in a crisis like none before in its three-decade history.
SoftBank Group and ABB are studying how the Chinese business, which is ABB Robotics’ largest single market, could be separated out, according to people familiar with the matter.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 8, 2026
SoftBank and ABB consider China carve-out to salvage robotics deal
The companies seek a solution after China’s Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review halted plans worth $5.4 billion.
An employee checks newly-assembled electric cars to be exported to South America at an electric vehicle factory in Zouping county, Shandong province, China, on Sept. 24, 2013.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 8, 2026
How China’s clean-tech machine is reshaping the global climate fight
Beijing sent $132 billion in clean technology and investment to the developing world last year — the largest such contribution of any country.
The Nongsa Digital Park (NDP) area, a hub for artificial intelligence (AI)-based data center and digital infrastructure development, in Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia, on Nov. 3.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 8, 2026
Can’t cook or shower: Indonesians take aim at data centers
Frustration is bubbling over in Indonesia and Malaysia — especially in regions bordering Singapore that are seen as a prime location for new tech facilities.
Demonstrators against artificial intelligence hold a protest in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 8, 2026
AI safety advocates make gains after $110 million midterm fight
A rival funding network pursuing the opposite cause — offering the industry more leeway to develop AI — also claimed successes.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a meeting of the Council for Japan's Growth Strategy at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 7, 2026
Japan picks 28 priority items for ?370 trillion in investments
The priority items, which were picked from 62 products and technologies, include semiconductors and artificial intelligence.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, delivers the keynote address at the Nvidia GTC in Berlin on Oct. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 7, 2026
China’s top spy agency recruited woman who targeted Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
Alice Huang, a Chinese executive who developed a relationship with Nvidia’s leader, is believed to be an asset of the Ministry of State Security.
Apple has an undisclosed multilingual gray list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe-type, a researcher has said.
WORLD
Nov 7, 2026
Apple’s autocomplete restrictions include ‘Dictator Trump’ and ‘Sleepy Joe,’ researcher finds
The find offers insight into the tradeoff between guessing what users are trying to say and preventing the devices from offering offensive suggestions.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2026
Takaichi administration announces emergency cyberdefense package
New measures focus on strengthening private-public cooperation and building expert teams.
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.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘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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