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AI News Flash: US private equity giant Blackstone announces it will invest $30 billion in Japan over the next 3-5 years to build AI data center infrastructure. The news was personally disclosed by Blackstone President and COO Jonathan Gray in a recent interview. Gray emphasized that in the current AI wave, the risk of ‘underbuilding’ is far more concerning than the feared ‘AI bubble’—meaning if computing power supply can’t keep up with demand growth, companies will face greater competitive disadvantage and market loss. Japan as the core investment destination signals its rapidly rising strategic position in the Asia-Pacific AI infrastructure landscape.

AI News Flash: SoftBank Corp. announced plans to start in-house AI server production at a former Sharp factory site near Osaka starting fiscal 2027. The announcement was made public on Tuesday during the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Tokyo, with President and CEO Jun Miyagawa attending and commenting on the matter. Miyagawa emphasized that building domestic AI infrastructure in Japan is crucial for economic security, positioning this move as a key step toward achieving self-sufficiency in the AI supply chain. However, the original summary provides few specific details on production scale, server specifications, expected capacity, or investment amounts - see the original article for more information.

AI News Flash: OpenAI’s GPT-5 Pro recently helped scientists crack a three-year mystery in immunology, focusing on T-cell behavior mechanisms. T-cells are key executors in the human immune system, responsible for identifying and eliminating abnormal cells, though certain regulatory patterns have long been unclear. The research team leveraged GPT-5 Pro’s language understanding and cross-literature reasoning capabilities to quickly comb through vast academic databases, uncovering potential connections previously overlooked, thus breaking through the research bottleneck.

AI News: Oracle revealed Monday it cut 21,000 jobs in the past 12 months, a 13% reduction, and explicitly stated in annual financial filings that AI technology deployment has caused and may continue to cause workforce reductions. This figure provides the first clear picture of the layoff scale. This phenomenon is not unique to Oracle. In May 2026, tech industry monthly layoffs hit a record high in recent years, with AI being the most commonly cited reason for cuts by companies according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

AI News Flash: Omio is a European travel search platform covering multiple transportation options including trains, buses, and planes, currently partnering with OpenAI for full AI transformation. According to the official announcement, Omio integrates OpenAI models to create a conversational travel search experience, enabling users to describe their travel needs and preferences in natural language, replacing the traditional process of relying on dropdown menus and form filling. Beyond the front-end experience upgrade, OpenAI technology is also being applied to accelerate internal product development cycles, helping engineers iterate and validate new features more quickly.

AI News Flash: According to LGT Private Bank Japan’s head Yoshitaka Nagakura (also Chairman of LGT Wealth Management Trust and CEO of Private Banking Japan), the rise of AI tech and Japan’s structural shift out of prolonged deflation are driving a surge in demand for personalized investment advice among ultra-high-net-worth clients. He notes that these two forces are…

AI news flash: As AI-related demand continues to heat up, TSMC’s wafer foundry capacity is facing increasing pressure, with multiple tech and auto giants turning to Samsung for chip production. According to Nikkei Asia tech correspondent Annie Cheng Ting-Fang, BYD, Google, AMD, and Tesla have all submitted foundry requests to Samsung, signaling…

AI News Flash: Japanese AI startup Sakana AI officially released Sakana Fugu this Monday, a system that integrates multiple AI models into a single collaborative workflow. Fugu’s core mechanism calls several large language models simultaneously to work together on the same task, improving overall output quality through multi-model combination, outperforming single models in some industry benchmarks…

AI news flash: The China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo officially opened in Beijing on June 22 (Monday), with US companies becoming the largest foreign exhibitor on site. However, on the same day, the Chinese government once again added more US companies to its export control list. Chinese State Council Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang attended the opening ceremony and delivered remarks. The two events happening on the same day clearly show the high complexity of the current US-China relationship: US companies are still actively seeking supply chain布局 and business opportunities in the Chinese market, while Beijing simultaneously tightens export restrictions on specific US entities.

AI news: The Japanese government is actively establishing a multilateral AI dialogue framework, partnering with like-minded countries including France, India, Brazil, Malaysia, and the UK, with the core goal of reducing excessive reliance on US and Chinese AI technology. Japan’s strategic consideration is to foster an AI development path distinct from that dominated by the US and China. Notably, Japan is extending its focus to Global South countries—these nations普遍担忧在 AI 时代沦为超级大国的「数位殖民地」, Japan hopes to provide an alternative cooperation option for these countries through a joint dialogue mechanism, while expanding its voice in global AI governance.