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RIKEN, Japan's national research institute, has decided to name its supercomputer dedicated to AI for Science 'Rikyu' (理究). The announcement also explains the origin and reasoning behind the chosen name.

GMO AI & Robotics, a GMO Internet Group subsidiary, has signed an official distributor agreement with China's Unitree Robotics for the Japanese market. It will offer end-to-end support, from deployment to maintenance, aiming to accelerate humanoid robot adoption across Japan.

Founded in 2013 by the creators of the open-source big-data engine Apache Spark, Databricks has grown into a data and AI platform valued around ¥20 trillion and used by roughly 70% of the Fortune 500. The article traces its rise and latest developments.

A survey by AtTed on the conditions for SaaS to survive the AI era found 80% of respondents feel a need to reconsider their SaaS, while also highlighting the difficulty of AI replacement and common causes of failed adoption, probing Japan's 'SaaS is dead' debate.

Honda has deployed AI agents in new-car sales to help create higher-quality, opportunity-capturing deals as buyer behavior shifts. The system helps salespeople move beyond passive 'wait-and-see' selling, and has already produced closed sales.

Ajinomoto's finance arm has begun running an accounting AI agent that autonomously handles expense-approval work, cutting workload by 76%. The move makes it an early mover in a field where intolerance for errors had bred caution about adopting AI.

Generative recommendation predicts a user's next interaction from past behavior, with item tokenization bridging item semantics and the recommendation model. This work proposes a way to structure and tokenize distributed user-interest context to improve generative recommenders.

Autonomous agents are increasingly wired into cloud, deployment, and data-control workflows, straining production security. This work proposes sovereign execution brokers that enforce certificate-bound authority within agentic control planes.

OpenAI introduced new usage analytics and updated spend controls for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations track and manage AI costs while scaling with confidence. Admins gain visibility into per-team consumption and can set limits to optimize spend.

Male infertility is a major cause of couple infertility and is often linked to abnormal sperm morphology. This work uses attention-guided deep learning for interpretable sperm morphology classification.

The paper proposes a constrained hybrid modelling approach to predict microbial dynamics and organic matter turnover in soil systems. It targets the difficulty of informing process-based soil models of microbial activity from data, which is key to predicting soil carbon cycling and climate impacts.

The paper proposes a token-operations-oriented framework for large-model inference optimization, presenting a four-layer technical architecture aimed at scalable, low-cost, and stable large-model services. The layers include components such as multi-model fusion.

Immersion in video games depends not only on graphics, audio, and mechanics but also on the quality of game AI. This work augments game AI using deep reinforcement learning.

The paper presents Connect the Dots (CoD), a reinforcement-learning framework for training large language models as long-lifecycle agents. It targets the meta-capability of solving a long sequence of tasks while continuously exploring an environment, aiming for cross-domain generalization.

The paper proposes multi-agent transactive memory, infrastructure for sharing knowledge across heterogeneous populations of LLM agents. Analogous to how search engines index human artifacts, retrieval systems organize agent-generated knowledge to support decentralized agents working across diverse tasks.

The paper discusses options for scaling up democratic deliberation and empowering people with AI as large language models become prominent in public discourse. It weighs opportunities against persistent concerns such as linguistic constraints, biases, and the sycophantic tendencies of LLMs, beyond what red teaming addresses.

The paper studies budget-aware test-time reasoning as a deployment allocation problem, asking whether to 'think again' or 'think longer.' It proposes selective verification, since extra reasoning is not uniformly useful—it can repair failures, waste compute on correct answers, or introduce harmful changes.

The paper benchmarks agentic review systems, which are emerging to relieve the pressure AI-assisted research places on peer review. It evaluates two open-source systems, one proprietary system, and a zero-shot baseline, addressing the open question of how such systems should be assessed.

The paper addresses the calibration gap in semantic caching, which cuts LLM inference costs by serving cached responses to semantically similar queries. It shows that evaluating with PR-AUC—which only measures ranking, not usability at a fixed threshold—leads to systematically poor deployment choices.

Japan Post Insurance, serving 17 million customers, has embedded AI agents into its sales workflow, turning offhand remarks at post offices into insurance proposals. A demonstration shows how the technology changes frontline staff preparing for client meetings.

Anthropic opened a Seoul office and announced new partnerships across Korea's AI ecosystem, including enterprises, startups, and researchers building on Claude. It frames Korea as treating innovation and safety as two sides of the same coin. Specifics are per the announcement and unverified independently.

Production data integration is bottlenecked by repeated, lossy handoffs among data owners, engineers, and analysts who must jointly discover, structure, and query enterprise data. The authors present Data Intelligence Agents (DIA), autonomous coding agents that interpret, model, and query that data.

Glioma segmentation in multiparametric MRI is critical for treatment planning, and a model that fails silently on treatment-critical sub-regions is a patient-safety risk that overlap metrics miss. This work shows MC dropout confidence does not equal reliability, rethinking uncertainty estimation.

Simon Willison quotes Charity Majors arguing that as AI made code production effectively free and instant, turning code from curated to disposable, AI work demands more engineering discipline, not less. Presented as commentary; not independently verified.

Growing EV adoption raises peak demand and grid-instability risks, and RL-based smart charging can help but struggles when departure times are unknown. This work uses decision-focused RL—forecasting what matters for control—to manage controlled EV charging under unknown departure times.

Optimizing Autonomous Emergency Braking relies on accurately annotated real-world triggers, especially rare but critical delayed and false AEB events that expose defects. This work presents a practical system to learn to annotate such events under extreme class imbalance and asymmetric labels.

As LLMs advance and multi-agent systems aim to surpass standalone agents, robust communication protocols are becoming essential infrastructure. This work presents a technical taxonomy of LLM agent communication protocols, organizing the design space to clarify trade-offs and guide future systems.

The Web was built on a three-decade assumption that its primary content consumer is human, which permeates every layer of its access model. This work argues for an agent-first web, redesigning the Web for AI agents and rethinking access, structure, and interaction for an agent-driven era.

Sequence modeling is increasingly popular in recommendation and ranking for its ability to model users' historical behaviors and infer intentions. This work proposes JourneyFormer, which encodes the Airbnb guest journey with sequence modeling to better understand behavior and improve recommendations.

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become standard for reasoning models. GraphPO introduces a graph-based policy optimization method that exploits structure across reasoning steps to improve reasoning performance.