Star Collection Raises Funds Through Third-Party Allotment
The money goes to artist music, promotion, and the proprietary 3D platform, which is what STAR Collection sells instead of licensing outside live-production tools.
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Industry
DLsite Opens Genre Popular Vote For 2026
The vote doubles as a survey the service runs ahead of its 30th anniversary, and the results are set to be published rather than kept internal.
GAME Watch (Impress)
Accenture Caps Claude Spending At $29 Per Employee Per Month
The cap on one firm's Claude Enterprise seats turns the long-running advice to use AI more heavily into a budget line, and the notice's language about periodic allocation reviews shows the ceiling is meant to be enforced rather than absorbed.
GIGAZINE
ACCESS Says Taiwan Subsidiary Breach Leaked 1,305 Card Records
The breach also let attackers send 11,441 fraudulent emails using email service keys taken from the compromised server, and ACCESS says the recipient list was a separate list from the leaked personal data.
ASCII.jp
BRANC Panel To Weigh Chinese Market Prospects For Japanese Film
The session pairs an executive who handled physical distribution in China with a festival programmer, which is the closest thing to a front-line read on whether political friction or audience demand is actually driving the current uncertainty.
GameBusiness.jp
CG-ARTS Opens Animation Skills Test With Five Production Companies Scoring
The test turns hiring evaluation over to five active CG production companies, so the scores and advice students receive come from the same studios that recruit them.
GameBusiness.jp
Voice Actors Kōji Yusa and Miyari Nemoto Announce Marriage
Yusa's plan to delete the announcement account a week after posting sets a short expiry on a career milestone that, for a voice actor of his tenure, would normally stay pinned to a public profile.
Anime News Network, The Indonesian Anime Times
Iole To Make WOODMAN A Wholly Owned Unit In Share Swap
The deal folds GPU procurement, data center development, and immersion cooling into one group, which is the combination Iole needs to start its neo-cloud business rather than buy those functions case by case.
ASCII.jp
Showcase Says ProTech ID Checker Tops 500 Cumulative Adopters
The disclosure lands while personal information leaks tied to identity verification documents were being publicly reported from late September through October 2026, so Showcase is putting its adoption count forward as demand for eKYC grows.
ASCII.jp
Livedoor Adds AI Article Generation to IRwith IR Support Service
The update moves IRwith's pitch from distribution to production, letting listed companies turn disclosure documents into investor-facing articles without adding design or writing staff.
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Furuno Electric Wins NMEA Best of Awards in 6 of 23 Categories
The awards are voted by NMEA members, so a sixth category win gives Furuno a broader claim on the U.S. marine electronics market than the five categories it took last year.
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CustIntCo Japan to Supply Voice Matching Tech to Hyperion's PassProof
Voice matching is being pitched as a fallback for the verification steps that passkeys do not cover, which is where identity checks after login still demand a separate method.
ASCII.jp
MIRAI Opens Recruitment For Skill Development Hiring Route Ahead Of 2027 Cap
MIRAI is selling care and farm operators a workaround for a cap it expects to bind in 2027, moving the recruitment question from visa quotas to who signs up early for the new training-based route.
ASCII.jp
ASML's Lithography Slots Are Sold Out Through 2028
ASML's capacity ceiling is now the binding constraint on the AI buildout, and the order book is stretching three to four years past the shortage the company already can't clear.
GIGAZINE
Playio Survey Finds 43.1 Percent of Payers Buy Recurring Items
The report gives game operators a read on spending behavior that is tied to actual play records rather than self-reported habits, in a market where Playio Research can run the same survey mechanism across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
ASCII.jp
HPE Adds Four ProLiant Gen13 Servers
High-density AMD EPYC ProLiant systems give enterprises a hardware path to agentic AI and inference workloads that currently stall on security and risk concerns.
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Netflix Lays Off About 1,000 Staff As Co-CEOs Cite Discipline
A profitable Netflix with strong revenue still trimming headcount signals the streaming business is shifting from land-grab expansion to margin defense, and its biggest categories, product and technology, are where the pain lands.
GIGAZINE
Z Creative Partners Outlines How Media Should Track AI Answer Citations
If media outlets start treating AI answers as a measurable distribution channel, the metrics they sell to advertisers and the access rules they set for crawlers both become negotiation points rather than settled defaults.
ASCII.jp
HINA TOKYO Launches Creator Agency AEL With Three Creators
HINA TOKYO is moving from project-by-project planning and sales work into representing individual creators, betting that social media talent needs an agency between them and brand deals.
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AITAMA AI Talent Joins Tokyo Dome OpenDome Accelerator
AIMAX is betting the oshikatsu spending tracked by Nomura Research Institute and the daily-connection gap measured in the Cabinet Office loneliness survey can both be served by an AI character that remembers users between events, a pitch Tokyo Dome's accelerator has now put in front of its second cohort.
ASCII.jp
ZOZO NEXT and AVITA Sign MOU for Humanoid Robot Clothing Research
The MOU sets out a research plan for a category that does not yet have established material or design knowledge, robot-specific clothing, with the two companies aiming to start work in January 2027.
ASCII.jp
Furusato Story and NDI Solutions Launch DX/AX Business Using Domo
The partnership gives regional companies and local governments a one-stop path from data collection to AI-driven action, addressing the human and IT resource constraints that keep many from moving past proof-of-concept stages.
ASCII.jp
Toyota Tsusho Metals Resources Unit Adopts Notion CRM Agent System
The pilot shows a trading department trying to convert individual experience in rare metals and negotiation into shared organizational data before staff transfers drain it.
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Defunct Startup Data Sold For AI Training As Lawyers Warn Of A Lawless Zone
If shuttered companies can sell their internal communications as training material, the privacy rules that apply to living businesses and their employees turn out to have no counterpart once the business is gone.
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