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AI news flash: Malaysian chip design company SkyeChip has joined a SoftBank-backed project to develop next-generation AI memory, securing a seat in a Japanese semiconductor initiative that also involves Intel. SkyeChip’s founder and CEO is Fong Swee Kiang, and the company is based in Penang, Malaysia. The deal is seen as a step for the chip designer to advance its technology and expand its business beyond the US and China…

AI news flash: Major Japanese companies including Sega, All Nippon Airways, and MUFG Bank had suspended some websites and online services by Thursday, while regulators across Asia urged people to apply security patches quickly in response to serious flaws in a widely used programming language. The report says PHP is the culprit, a language that powers roughly 70% of all websites with an identifiable server-side language, so the impact is wide. The original headline says the flaws were detected by AI…

AI news flash: Japanese AI startup EpicAI plans to launch software that helps Japanese automakers speed up their new-car design review process. The background is that Japanese carmakers struggle to match the pace at which Chinese EV makers roll out new models. According to the original summary, EpicAI brings AI into the new-car development stage at large Japanese automakers, aiming to cut safety-related review time sharply so their development rhythm gets closer to Chinese rivals. The company expects to…

AI news flash: Bandai Namco Holdings’ stock has been climbing since July, with a clear rally recently, and the market reads it as a sign of investor skepticism toward AI-related stocks. With AI-themed shares swinging wildly, money is shifting toward companies with stable earnings, which favors gaming stocks and is gradually speeding up the rally. The Japanese entertainment company best known for Gundam is seen as a case in point of this trend…

AI news flash: The Japanese government plans to present a growth strategy by year-end, using the next five years as the first phase, with a ‘quick wins in the short term, bets on new fields in the medium to long term’ approach. In the short term, the government wants to deliver results fast in semiconductors and video games, using existing industrial strengths for quicker economic returns. For the medium to long term, it’s placing its hopes on AI-controlled robots and hydrogen energy, technologies expected to take longer to mature and reach scale…

AI news flash: Japan’s three megabanks are speeding up the handoff of AI and other tech tool development to India, hoping to roll out services faster as competition in digital finance heats up. According to Nikkei Asia, PayPay Bank has joined the trend too, outsourcing more system development and operations work to Indian teams just like Japan’s major banks. As the headline suggests, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is bringing AI into back-office work while also expanding its IT team in India…

AI news flash: AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access and use. According to the source, AT&T’s internal LegalEdge team is rethinking how legal matters are taken in (intake) and trying to scale legal judgment, so more people can get consistent legal help when they need it instead of relying entirely on a small number of legal staff handling cases one by one. However, the English summary provided is only two sentences long…

AI news flash: OpenAI explains how it works with distribution partners to keep safety standards consistent as access broadens. According to the source summary, the company works with these partners to keep safeguards aligned across channels while supporting responsible use, so more users and organizations can get access. Another focus is clarifying what the Usage Policies expect from each party, namely…

AI news flash: OpenAI is teaming up with PerturbAI and Scripps Research to use distributed AI agents to analyze the huge volume of data generated by millions of brain cells and surface promising research leads. Cell-level biological data is massive and complex, and manually reviewing it item by item can’t cover everything, so the team splits the analysis across many AI agents running at the same time…

AI news flash: OpenAI described how it built the ChatGPT ad system, with a large language model (LLM) driving the entire ad stack. The system tackles three problems. First, understanding what users actually intend in a conversation instead of just matching keywords, so ads fit the context of the chat. Second, keeping ads clearly separated from ChatGPT’s answers so ad content can’t influence or leak into the model’s responses, which protects the independence and credibility of…