Japan stories
The chipmaker is boosting US investment as AI demand strains advanced capacity and pushes full-year spending higher.
Delays of up to a week are leaving many Japanese firms exposed as yen swings and higher rates have already hit profits, a survey found.
The shift is meant to cut maintenance work and improve reliability after NTN moved its core e-WINGS sales platform off local servers.
Businesses can now query live SAP data in BigQuery without replication, cutting storage overhead and speeding analytics and AI projects.
The appointment aims to bolster Databricks' regional ecosystem as customers in Asia Pacific and Japan spend more on AI and data projects.
The approval could let the fintech broaden regulated services in Singapore, where it serves more than 10,000 small and medium-sized merchants.
Growing demand in Asia and other emerging markets has driven OwlPay Harbor's business payments above USD $600 million by June.
Compliance teams facing fragmented systems may cut integrations and vendor sprawl as Shufti folds onboarding, screening and monitoring into one platform.
The deal and new funding will help ASUENE expand its supply chain emissions tools as disclosure rules tighten across Europe and the UK.
Enterprise users can now limit what AI voice agents access and do, as OpenAI seeks to move beyond pilot projects into production use.
The move strengthens Cohesity's push in Asia Pacific and Japan, where cyber threats and data demands are driving investment in sales and support.
AI-driven phishing and state-linked espionage are pushing Asia-Pacific incident numbers higher, with data breaches still the biggest threat.
Most countries will see only slight progress in tech sovereignty by 2030, with heavy investment failing to close the gap with China and the US.
The promotion widens Zoom's regional push as it targets enterprise and AI growth across Australia, India, Korea and Southeast Asia.
Labour shortages and an ageing workforce are pushing Japanese manufacturers to test AI-controlled robots in factories, logistics and hospitals.
Advertisers can now build custom audience segments from campaign briefs, as GumGum shifts targeting in The Trade Desk towards automated activation.
The tie-up could let researchers run more complex quantum algorithms on existing hardware without waiting for fault-tolerant machines.
Most Australian staff are happy with AI as an assistant, but 64% want a human involved before it acts independently.
Workers in Australia are more worried than global peers about automation, even as 57% use AI tools to hunt for jobs or prepare for interviews.
The free feature widens access to document scanning on phones, giving home users and small firms a lower-cost route to digitisation.
