industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 18
Konnect-linK is folding clinical expertise into its existing strategy and AI work, so the healthcare push rests on a doctor-led side running alongside the company's technology side rather than on selling AI products.
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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 18
Endo's role moves beyond endorsing a brand: he becomes a source of operational knowledge for a company building services around athletes' value, with education and investment activities alongside his playing career.
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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17
The stated premise is hiring and retention rather than capacity: Studio One Base Corporation president Tsuyoshi Kikuchi said creative production staff are not receiving sufficient benefits while the number of young people entering the industry falls, so the hub is built around working conditions and training space.
Real Sound Anime
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17
A startup being named among 10 supporting companies alongside established manufacturers and retailers for a METI-run circular consumption week gives the subscription reuse model a place in the ministry's public-facing push to normalize buying, using, separating, and circulating goods.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17
The launch targets a manufacturing sector where labor shortages and a shortage of staff to handle recruitment are happening at the same time, pushing general affairs, HR, and even plant managers or executives to run hiring alongside their main duties.
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industry 1 sources · Sep 17
The report argues that the same reseller and credit systems that let pirate IPTV evade copyright enforcement also restore access to broadcasters the United States blocked more than two decades ago, which is why the nonprofit wants site blocking treated as a safety measure rather than only a rights issue.
GIGAZINE
industry 1 sources · Sep 17
The survey puts a number on what studios have mostly described anecdotally: generative AI is now routine in development workflows, and the industry's stated safeguards run through human review rather than tool bans.
Denfaminicogamer
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17
The certification turns messaging from a Search Ads touchpoint into a measurable conversion path for LINE-linked CRM tools, which is where Social Data Bank's business already sits.
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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17
The denial leaves open whether SK hynix will shift any memory output to US soil, at a time when Washington is pressing chipmakers to manufacture there and the company's CEO has called any site meeting land, power, water, labor and cost conditions a candidate.
GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17
The investment is a bet on an operator that treats generative AI as back-office machinery for personalizing leisure tours, not as the product itself, and on a leisure business angling toward broader everyday-life services.
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industry 1 sources · Sep 17
The framework would put age verification and design limits on services that have so far been governed by national rules or platform policy, with AI chatbots and games pulled into the same scope as social media.
GIGAZINE
industry 1 sources · Sep 17
Sendai's IMAX auditorium is the only one in Miyagi Prefecture, so its closure for a month puts the prefecture's large-format screenings on hold until the laser projector and 12-channel sound system come online.
Cinema Today
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17
The launch pairs a recycled-metals brand with third-party digital certification, an attempt to make the chain from collected device to finished product checkable by manufacturers and end users rather than taken on trust.
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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17
The round and the Colabit acquisition show Facilo buying valuation technology rather than building it, to assemble a connected AI product line for brokerage work.
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industry 1 sources · Sep 17
Level-5 is keeping AI in its pipeline while pulling it out of the images fans actually see, which is the compromise a publisher reaches when the efficiency gain is real but the audience resistance is louder.
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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16
NVIDIA's largest customers are becoming its competitors, so the capital it pushes out to startups and buyers now sits alongside a real risk that those same buyers will shift to in-house chips.
GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16
Onuki's account puts the greenlight decision in the hands of overseas platforms' upfront payments, meaning a title's viability can rest on streaming terms rather than domestic popularity.
Animehunch
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16
The rebrand retires the Tomy name that carried the company abroad since the 2006 merger, so the identity a Western buyer recognizes will now depend on toy lines and anime licenses rather than a century-old infant-products label.
Animenomics
industryevent 1 sources · Sep 16
AZ8 is courting Japanese creators not with a feature drop but with a support pipeline, tying tool access to monthly production tasks and an advertising contest so the platform learns local production habits while creators keep making work.
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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16
For a buyer-side M&A advisory firm whose deal sourcing and execution support have expanded, the appointment puts technology and AI oversight at the management level rather than in a single business unit.
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industryevent 1 sources · Sep 16
The panel puts the industry's and the schools' answers to generative AI in the same room, which is where the hiring standard for new programmers will actually get settled.
GameBusiness.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16
Japan's national push to industrialize physical AI depends on data production capacity, and this partnership puts FastLabel's factory operations model behind both a government-backed VTLA program and a commercial product rollout at the same time.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16
The booth puts the patent office's startup-facing programs in front of founders directly, showing how the agency is routing IP support through venture capital and contract templates rather than waiting for startups to seek it out.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16
The service puts an AI agent, not software alone, inside a BPO provider's contracted work, which is where processing volume is currently capped by staff headcount.
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