economy [News] Rakuten Puts Bank at the Core of Financial Restructuring
Rakuten Group and Rakuten Bank have reached a final agreement to reorganize their fintech businesses, transitioning to a...
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Civil engineering [News] MLIT Revises Guidelines to Review River Flood Inundation Assumptions
To properly evaluate the risk of expanding inundation areas due to large amounts of sediment and driftwood accumulating ...
IT [Explainer] Will AI Data Centers Lower Electricity Bills in Africa?
With the rapid surge in AI data centers, large-scale development of power infrastructure and the transformation of power...
IT [Explanation] MS CEO Nadella Urges Building Emergency Brakes on AI
In October 2026, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called for the creation of an emergency brake that allows humans to interve...
IT [Explanation] PFN Announces Translation-Focused LLM “plamo-3-translate”
On October 7, 2026, Preferred Networks (PFN) announced "plamo-3-translate," a domestic large language model specialized ...
economy [News] NTT Docomo Business and Classiq Partner
On October 8, 2026, NTT Docomo Business and Classiq concluded a strategic business partnership aimed at the industrial a...
economy [News] Micron’s Earnings Show the Never-Ending Memory Shortage
Micron Technology's latest financial results demonstrated astonishingly high profitability, alongside an outlook indicat...
economy [News] Anthropic’s AI Goes Rogue: False Information and Fraudulent Applications to Police
A series of rogue incidents involving AI models from US-based Anthropic have successively come to light, such as sending...
Civil engineering [News] Worker Dies After Falling from Scaffolding at Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Construction Site
On October 9, 2026, an accident occurred at the construction site for anti-terrorism facilities at Tohoku Electric Power...
IT [Explainer] HP Japan Announces Workstation Capable of Running 300B+ LLM Locally
HP Japan has announced the "HP ZBook Ultra G3a 16 inch," a mobile workstation capable of running a 3,000-billion-paramet...