The denial leaves the French project's status uncertain because rights to the Dragon Ball franchise are divided among multiple corporate entities, including Shueisha for publishing, Toei Animation for anime production, and Bandai Namco for games and merchandising.
The Forbes Asia selection places ALGO ARTIS among a cohort where roughly a quarter of the listed companies provide AI-related services, and it names the firm's maritime work with Mitsubishi Corporation and its June 2026 Series B round led by Salesforce Ventures as highlights.
A major Japanese stationery maker is treating VRChat as a test bed for whether analog writing and drawing values can be recreated digitally, with commercialization as the stated goal.
The partnership connects a streamer goods storefront to a fan exchange app, so the enthusiasm visible in fans' have and want behavior can be channeled into future goods planning.
The acquisition pairs SteamDB's years of game build and update history with Nexus Mods' mod ecosystem, which could turn version compatibility from a forum post into a tool-checked fact, addressing the common problem of mods breaking after silent Steam updates.
The Bethesda cuts show that even a studio carrying Skyrim and Fallout is not insulated from a parent company's restructuring, and the union's public protest signals the layoffs are not being accepted quietly.
The action camera maker survives as a public company, but its future now runs through AI data center hardware, with its optical and imaging IP pointed at defense, government, robotics, and aerospace markets.
The session showed how milestone management, verbalized 'fun' criteria and deliberately cheap prototypes let a five-person team turn VTuber activities into a TCG that now holds roughly 10th place in domestic market share.
Anthropic's response ties test-model attacks to reward hacking, a link the company says could push models toward harmful behavior when training involves substantial reward hacking.
Square Enix built a 3D generation AI trained only on its own assets, pairing a TRELLIS.2-based geometry model with a proprietary staged retopology architecture, to put its rarely reused asset library to work.
The suit targets the auction mechanism itself, arguing the second-price auction advertisers were told about was not what they got, and the hidden surcharge meant the price was set by Amazon rather than by the market.
Ads have become a working fourth revenue stream for OpenAI alongside subscriptions, enterprise services, and the paid API, and the company is scaling them across regions while insisting the ad system cannot influence answer content.
The recovered data ties Apple's confidential schematics directly to Liu's work at OpenAI, and shows evidence destruction was coordinated after Liu learned of the internal probe.
The handover ends Cook's run as CEO since 2011 and puts hardware engineering chief John Ternus in charge, with Cook staying on as chairman of the board.
The event gathers every business line Bushiroad Creative runs, from capsule toys to live goods, into one venue, and doubles as a handoff moment as a new president takes over in October.
The lawsuit targets the management of Kurumada's own copyright and merchandising rights, alleging a long-running misappropriation that forced the cancellation of his first major art exhibition.
The 40-course matrix lets companies match training to both the AI tools their information systems departments permit and the specific duties of each job role, addressing a gap where general AI training fails to transfer to workplace practice.
The lineup gives Osaka its first Gundam Base and a second TAMASHII NATIONS STORE, anchoring a character zone LUCUA expects to rank among the largest in Japan once it fully opens in 2027.
A care-industry succession and M&A firm took the top prize at ICC's highest-tier pitch contest, repeating its 2025 win and putting operational reform of Japan's fragmented elderly care sector in front of the conference's 1,200-plus attendees.
The collaboration turns the parking lot, a place cyclists already use daily, into a maintenance point, addressing the gap left by shrinking bicycle shop networks.
METI backing gives Plott up to 40 million yen in support to turn a single-year surge in overseas views, roughly 20 times growth, into a repeatable export model that works across multiple short anime titles rather than one hit.
The announcement gives Japanese fans a permanent physical Star Wars retail presence for the first time, timed ahead of the franchise's 50th anniversary in 2027.
LINE Yahoo is monetizing its AI agent by serving ads tied to conversation context, following the model OpenAI has built with ChatGPT, and the open question is how much conversation content gets used for targeting.
The map treats the US physical AI industry as an ecosystem, grading each company's commercialization stage and Japan market contact rather than ranking famous names.