Mirai Bit Fully Commences Physical AI Research and Development
Mirai Bit is betting that real-machine data, not AI models alone, is the bottleneck for Physical AI, and is building the data collection and verification loop to prove it.
ASCII.jp
Industry
Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training
The suit carries the copyright fight over AI training into local news, and it lands just after the US Department of Justice argued in the New York Times case that AI training is fair use.
GIGAZINE
AI Call Analysis Lets Renxa Catch Complaints Before They Surface
The case shows AI call analysis shifting contact center management from manual recording review to automated scoring, so managers spend their time on training instead of searching for problem calls.
ASCII.jp
DON'T NOD Flags Material Uncertainty over Business Continuation after January 31, 2027
A studio known for narrative-driven games now says its survival past January 31, 2027 depends on external funding it has not yet secured, with up to 90 jobs at risk.
Automaton
Excert Operator IBT Sogo Kenkyujo Joins Microcity Group
The transfer places Excert, used by more than 500,000 people a year, under Microcity's development and operation resources, moving the platform to its next growth stage.
ASCII.jp
Foundry Labs Named OpenAI Select Partner for Japanese Enterprise AI
The recognition places a Tokyo firm founded in 2025 inside OpenAI's partner tier, giving Japanese enterprises a direct local channel to frontier models through embedded delivery teams.
ASCII.jp
Bandai Namco Talks Notion Workflow for External Game Partners at CEDEC
The session treated Notion as a coordination hub that consolidates flow and stock information with external partners, addressing the slowdown many development teams face as outsource interactions grow.
GameBusiness.jp
Tokyo Anime Award Festival Ends Events, Website Goes Archival
The festival, which grew out of the Tokyo International Anime Fair's awards, is ending its run as an event after 13 iterations, with its online presence reduced to an archive.
Anime News Network
Naver Ventures Invests in Emmy-Winning Studio Baobab for New Webtoon
The deal ties a webtoon platform's parent to an animation studio on SHINE, a webcomic Baobab will expand into film, television, streaming, and gaming while keeping those rights itself.
Anime News Network
gamescom Organizers Apologize for Initial Theft Response
The apology reverses the organizers' earlier self-responsibility framing, and the promised measures now face the test of whether they actually get implemented.
Game Spark
CEDEC 2026 Talk Maps Game Dev Contract Disputes and Fixes
The lecture converts 15 years of game development litigation into contract design guidance, naming the four dispute points most court cases center on.
GameBusiness.jp
Pentagon Keeps Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk Tag Despite Lutnick Trust Pledge
The Commerce Secretary's trust statement and the Pentagon's reaffirmation on consecutive days expose a public split in the administration over Anthropic, with the Defense Department signaling it will not back down despite the court ruling.
GIGAZINE
Delivery Info Platform Nokicolle Adds TRC Tokyo Distribution Center
The listing gives logistics operators advance access to TRC's dock and delivery procedures, a direct answer to the 2024 driver overtime limits that have compressed delivery windows.
ASCII.jp
Akamai Briefing: AI Overviews Cut Top Search Clicks by 62.7%
As AI agents replace human searchers, game companies lose the value of top search rankings and must shift from SEO to GEO while defending their e-commerce and account APIs against bots.
GameBusiness.jp
FIXER and TOKYO MX Build AI Review System for TV and Anime Programs
The system handles long-form content including anime programs, and its reported cut of a 30-minute infomercial review from five hours to two hours points to AI compliance checks becoming routine in broadcast operations.
ASCII.jp
estoma Launches Sustaina x Copilot Support Service for Sustainability Work
estoma positions Copilot as a draft generator inside a structured workflow, with Office Scripts handling organization and humans making final decisions, rather than letting AI run the disclosure process alone.
ASCII.jp
Emooove Launches Startup Hunt to Reach Post-Funding Startup CxOs
Emooove is betting that startup CxOs, who rarely answer phone lines or forms, can only be reached through a database-driven, multi-channel approach that identifies decision makers by name.
ASCII.jp
BASF Sues Apple Over Face ID Patent Infringement
One trinamiX patent cited in the suit matches the under-display Face ID rumored for the iPhone 18 Pro, which could complicate that release.
GIGAZINE
Xsolla Brings Hands-On Demo Zone to Tokyo Game Show 2026
Xsolla is using TGS to press its off-app-store direct sales case to Japanese developers, with the AI Toolkit getting its first domestic showing as Google's Play Store fee structure shifts.
GameBusiness.jp
PDOLE, Cross Marketing, gr.a.m Form Overseas Expansion Support Partnership
The partnership targets the gap between research data and actual decision-making, aiming to leave expansion know-how inside client companies instead of outsourcing it.
ASCII.jp
Battlestate Games Launches Publishing Arm for Hardcore, Niche Titles
The studio that built the extraction shooter genre is now using its player base and funding to back the kind of uncompromising projects mainstream publishers pass on.
Denfaminicogamer
NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
The acquisition folds the dominant distribution hub for open AI models into the company that already leads AI chip sales, giving NVIDIA control over both the hardware and the software layer of open-source AI development.
ASCII.jp, GIGAZINE, GameBusiness.jp
AWS Japan Backs 51 Physical AI Projects as Startups Lead the Cohort
Startups make up about half of the 51 selected companies, and AWS Japan president Akihiko Shirahata calls them the main engine for putting physical AI into practical use, positioning the program as the next step in AWS's generative AI support in Japan.
ASCII.jp
Anthropic and Salesforce Launch Claudeforce to Unite Claude with Salesforce Data
Salesforce is betting its accumulated data and workflow governance are the edge in the AI agent era, and Claudeforce is the first offering built on that bet.
GameBusiness.jp