Industry

industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

China Moves to Approve Alibaba and ByteDance Buys of NVIDIA RTX Pro 5500

The move extends the export easing that began after the US lifted its H200 sales ban and the two countries agreed to a truce running to January 10, 2027, putting China's two largest AI buyers back in line for NVIDIA's newest workstation hardware.

GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

EISEI Group Wins Tokyo Chamber Special Award for Disability Share House

The recognition centers on a housing model that the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry evaluated specifically for combining private construction and private operation into something that can keep running, a gap the article ties to limited community housing options for people needing 24-hour support or medical care.

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industryannouncement 1 sources · Oct 5

Bungie Co-Founder Jason Jones Launches Studio Stone Kite

Stone Kite is staking its pitch on letting the audience pick the entry point rather than treating other media as an extension of one primary story, a model the studio says departs from how transmedia is usually practiced.

Automaton
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

SLOC WORKS Research Institute Moves Head Office To Sapporo

The relocation puts the institute's research work in Sapporo and its business support work under one roof, with the company treating the personnel and location change as a fresh start rather than a routine office move.

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industry 1 sources · Oct 5

Straker Japan Opens 15-Session AI Dubbing Webinar Series

The pitch is not translation but preservation: the product promise is that a speaker's own voice and expressions carry into another language, which is the claim corporate multilingual video has been judged against until now.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

Motherboard Makers in China Move Toward October Price Hikes

The increases reported at ASUS, Colorful, MSI, and GIGABYTE show component and material costs moving beyond memory and SSDs into boards and board materials, with PCB prices up 15% to 20% and capacitors up about 50%.

Automaton
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

AIBORN Gets Investment From Medical Data Vision, Forms Alliance

The investment formalizes a sales arrangement that has been running since August 2025 and gives the Katanashi product a partner with one of Japan's largest clinical databases behind its distribution to medical institutions.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

SBI To Launch 0% Fee Zero Can Fund For Kodomo NISA

A zero trust fee on a Kodomo NISA vehicle sets the price at the floor before the children's account system even opens, while the general investor version is priced at 0.055%, drawing the line between the two customer groups by cost rather than by product.

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