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NEC announced on July 1 that it would absorb and merge its wholly owned subsidiary, NEC Solution Innovators, effective October 1. The company stated that the merger is part of its business restructuring in line with advances in AI, and is expected to improve productivity in system development through standardization of development processes, accelerate talent development, and bring other benefits. The impact of the merger on NEC’s performance is expected t

Nippon Professional Baseball (hereinafter NPB) introduced a system on July 1 that continuously monitors social media posts, in order to strengthen its response to illegal or improper posts targeting umpires, including defamation and slander, threats, and damage to reputation. When malicious posts are identified, measures such as reporting them to SNS operators, blocking accounts, and deleting posts will be taken. Post from NPB’s official X account NPB rega

Voucher purchase screen (Source: PayPay official website; the same applies below) Vouchers are purchased in units of ¥10,000. Users can choose from ¥10,000, ¥30,000, ¥50,000, ¥100,000, and ¥200,000, and can purchase up to ¥250,000. A cardholder authentication service (3D Secure) is required when registering a third-party credit card and purchasing a voucher. From July 1 onward, the company plans to gradually expand the number of users who can use the vouch

(Source: PlayStation.Blog) The company explained, “Amid demand for digital media far exceeding demand for physical discs, we made this decision after taking into account changes in users’ usage patterns and the market environment.” It said that there will be no impact on titles already on sale or titles released on disc before January 2028. Press release PlayStation 5 (Source: SIE)

Vint Cerf (83), Google’s vice president and chief internet evangelist, will step down from the company in one week. This was revealed during a panel discussion at the “Open Frontier” conference hosted by the U.S. nonprofit Laude Institute. Vint Cerf participating in the event via video call (Image: from a Laude Institute video) Cerf is known, along with Robert Kahn, as a co-developer of TCP/IP, the foundational technology of the internet, in the 1970s, and

PayPay and LINE Yahoo announced on July 2 that they will begin linking “LINE” and “PayPay” accounts in summer 2026. Once linked, users will be able to send money and split bills in LINE conversations without opening the PayPay app. Linking LINE and PayPay accounts (Source: Press release; the same applies to the following images) The linking will make it possible to use the PayPay balance’s “Send/Receive” feature in LINE conversations. Splitting bills will

Nippon Life’s annual general meeting, where questions were raised about its investment in Space X = the 2nd, central Osaka (photo provided by the company) Space X is a space development company led by U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk. It made its initial public offering (IPO) on June 12 and was listed on the U.S. Nasdaq market. On the 11th, it set its IPO price at $135 per share (roughly ¥21,600 at the time), raising approximately $75 billion (about ¥12 trillio

U.S. Microsoft announced on July 2 (local time) the establishment of a new organization, “Microsoft Frontier Company,” to support AI implementation by stationing AI engineers at client companies. The investment will be $2.5 billion (approximately ¥400 billion), with an organization of roughly 6,000 people centered on existing engineering divisions and FDE (Forward Deployed Engineering) teams. Microsoft Frontier Company will operate as an internal organizat

An increasing number of companies are bringing generative AI into the modernization of aging core systems. Even when design documentation is unavailable, AI can decipher source code and identify business logic. Cases are also emerging in which analysis on a scale that would have been unrealistic by hand is completed in a matter of months. Kakuyasu, a liquor wholesaler, is one such company. Its core system, which had operated for 30 years, had fallen into a

Trump Accounts is a program that supports long-term wealth building for children born in the United States. In addition to introducing a contribution-matching program that supplements contributions for children of its U.S. employees, Micron will provide a one-time contribution of $250 per eligible child in the seven states where it operates. U.S. President Donald Trump also referenced the announcement on his own social networking service, “Truth Social,” a

Shueisha’s Comic Fair “Natsukomi 2026” bonus “Metakira Cards” are being resold at high prices on domestic flea-market websites, while “ONE PIECE” cards are also being traded in large quantities at high prices of around 10,000 yen on the U.S. auction site “eBay.” When the editorial department checked on July 3, it found that one listing alone had sold 962 cards. Although prices are gradually declining, demand from overseas collectors may also be behind the

U.S. NVIDIA announced on July 1 (local time) a new business model enabling AI-related companies to easily access AI infrastructure equipped with GPUs. It has established a framework combining revenue sharing and financing support with AI cloud providers, supporting the procurement of computing resources by startups, model developers, research institutions, and others. According to the company, the AI industry is transitioning from a stage centered on model

KADOKAWA announced on July 2 that 154 employees had applied for the early retirement program it had been recruiting for among employees aged 45 and over. The program is expected to reduce labor costs by approximately ¥1.7 billion annually (approximately ¥1.1 billion over the eight months from August in the fiscal year ending March 2027). From Timely Disclosure Early retirement was open to employees aged 45 and over who belonged to specified job grades and

The First Hands-On Tests of Fable 5.2 Are Here! Netizens: Opus Suddenly Doesn’t Seem So Great Anymore 2026-11-10 15:03:43 Source: QbitAI Music Composition, Filming, and 3D Modeling—All Covered Under One Roof Mengyao reporting from Aofei Temple QbitAI | Official WeChat Account QbitAI The first hands-on tests of Fable 5.2 are here!!! Everyone’s Tokens are burning like crazy. 3D modeling, games, and no-code videos—everything’s been covered! Here, one friend b

■ World Labs unveils ‘Frameboy’ for real-time exploration of AI-generated virtual worlds World Labs unveiled ‘Frameboy,’ which enables users to explore virtual worlds generated by its world model ‘Atlas’ in real time, like a game. When the user moves the camera, the AI generates and displays a scene from a new viewpoint. It optimizes the inference speed of the existing Atlas model to generate up to 15 frames per second on cloud GPUs and stream them to a br

Nvidia pumps over 40 billion dollars into AI partners so far in 2026 Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner May 11, 2026 AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArticle", "he

Meta plans up to $95 billion in stock sales to fund its AI buildout Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 26, 2026 Meta plans to sell new stock to raise money for its AI infrastructure buildout. According to The Information, the company plans to sell up to $95 billion in shares. About $22.5 billion will come from selling Class A common stock, according to a Meta announcement. Another $12.5 billion will come from deposit

Meta gets $3 billion from Nvidia and plans to spend more on Nvidia chips Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 27, 2026 Nvidia is buying into its customer Meta, which plans to run more of its AI agents on Nvidia hardware. Nvidia is investing $3 billion in Meta's planned equity offering, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the same announcement, the two companies said they would expand their partnership around Meta's AI

Anthropic warns Claude Mythos Preview finds bugs faster than developers can patch them Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian May 23, 2026 Anthropic AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type"