Civil engineering

[News] Framy: Automatically Generating BIM/CIM Models from 2D Drawings and Point Clouds

DataLabs Inc. has announced "Framy," a cloud service that automatically generates BIM/CIM models from point cloud data a...
IT

[Explanation] Voice enhancements for both ChatGPT and Claude

On July 24, 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic announced a major overhaul of their AI voice capabilities almost simultaneously. ...
economy

[News] Strategy announces new Bitcoin holdings value indicator

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), known as a Bitcoin treasury company, has released a new metric called 'Net Reserves,'...
IT

[Explanation] 2026 Edition Information and Communications White Paper

The 2026 White Paper on Information and Communications published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications ...
IT

[Explanation] AMD announces “ROCm.AI” and optimizes GPU for its agent.

On July 23, 2026, AMD announced a new AI development platform called "ROCm.ai," optimized for agent-based AI workloads. ...
economy

[News] June trade balance shows a deficit of 406.9 billion yen

According to the Ministry of Finance's preliminary trade statistics report for June 2026, our country's trade balance re...
Civil engineering

[News] Seawater flows backward from Hokuriku Electric Power equipment into tap water

Seawater flowed back from the equipment at the Hokuriku Electric Power Tsuruga Thermal Power Plant into the tap water, c...
IT

[Explanation] Launch of ‘Claude Opus 5’

On July 25, 2026, Anthropic began offering its latest AI model, "Claude Opus 5." The reason for maintaining high intelli...
economy

[News] Hitachi, Intel, and AIST to develop silicon spin quantum chips using the cutting-edge 1.8nm process ‘Intel 18A’

Hitachi, Ltd., Intel, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have begun joint research...
IT

[Explanation] The Open Knowledge Format, an open format that standardizes the knowledge used by AI agents with Markdown

On June 12, 2026, Google Cloud released Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.1, a knowledge representation format for AI agent...