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 ...

As more people flock to urban areas and the need for sustainable practices intensifies, public transportation systems are undergoing substantial changes. One of these major changes is the transition ...

Business conversations and manufacturing data are just two examples of how Japanese startups are using DX and AI for ...

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 ...

Philadelphia recently rolled out bus-mounted AI cameras that capture people driving personal vehicles in dedicated bus lanes. Innovations like this are necessities because so many people suffer from ...

Tokyo is poised to roll out a long-awaited stimulus package that will enable Japanese firms to gain global share in the fields of semiconductors and artificial intelligence. It is no secret that Japan ...

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.

This report is part of Strategic Japan, a CSIS Japan Chair initiative featuring analysis by Japan’s leading foreign policy scholars on key regional and global challenges and the implications for the U ...

The year 2025 has marked a major transformation in global trends concerning artificial intelligence (AI) risks and regulations. Beginning with the “DeepSeek shock” out of China in January and the AI ...

Japan's university system has long centred on engineering faculties led by manufacturing, resulting in a relative shortage of ...