AI news flash: Google announced Monday it’s cutting Google AI Plus’s monthly price from $7.99 to $4.99, while doubling the plan’s cloud storage from 200GB to 400GB, with the update rolling out to existing subscribers over the coming days. Launched this January, Google AI Plus is positioned as the cheapest paid AI subscription plan in the US market, aimed mainly at…
AI news brief: Japan is actively working to secure a bigger say in Asia’s subsea cable landscape, as explosive AI demand fundamentally reshapes the requirements for global data transmission infrastructure. Amid this transformation, industry veterans with over 25 years in the subsea cable business admit that traditional ways of operating are hitting bottlenecks, struggling to keep up with the new era’s high-bandwidth, low-latency demands. Notably, new players who previously had little involvement in this highly specialized field are now moving in aggressively…
AI news brief: Anthropic’s release of Claude Mythos (internally codenamed Fable 5) has put the crypto community on high alert. In April, hackers stole a total of $629.7 million in crypto, the highest monthly figure since February 2025, and analysts are linking this directly to the widespread adoption of AI tools. VC firm Moonrock Capital’s founder…
AI News Flash: Japan’s Mitsubishi HC Capital plans to partner with Canadian investment group Brookfield to acquire renewable energy plants across Europe through a UK joint venture, targeting wind and solar farms in markets like the UK and France. The deal is driven by the rapid expansion of AI technology, which is pushing global electricity demand sharply higher and significantly boosting the strategic value of renewable assets. Mitsubishi HC Capital has long focused on equipment leasing and infrastructure financing…
AI News Brief: Notion recently shared how it’s actually using OpenAI Codex in production. According to the company, Notion’s engineering team uses Codex for ‘one-shot specs’ — having AI generate executable technical spec documents in a single prompt, dramatically cutting the lead time from requirements to implementation. Notion also built…
AI News Brief: Nextdoor’s engineering team has adopted OpenAI’s Codex paired with GPT-5.5, applying it in three main areas — helping debug hard-to-reproduce production issues by using AI-assisted analysis of complex scenarios to cut down on time spent repeatedly recreating problem environments; cross-platform development, letting engineers ship features faster across different operating systems and device environments; and shifting engineering focus away from technical minutiae…
AI News Flash: Apple kicked off WWDC 2026 at its Cupertino campus under two unusual circumstances — CEO Tim Cook announced he’ll hand the reins to hardware engineering SVP John Ternus on September 1, making this his last WWDC, and expectations were sky-high for Apple to finally catch up on AI after two rough years for Siri and core software…
AI News Brief: GitHub Copilot CLI has launched a Custom Agents feature that lets developers pre-load their tech stack context and team workflow rules into an agent config, so Copilot no longer needs the full context re-explained every time it runs a task in the terminal. The core idea is turning fragmented, one-off ad-hoc instructions into a reusable, reviewable, standardized process.
AI News Flash: Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio model built specifically for real-time speech-to-speech translation. Unlike traditional turn-based systems that wait for you to finish talking before translating, 3.5 Live Translate uses continuous speech generation, staying just a few seconds behind the speaker while preserving their tone, rhythm, and pitch — so conversations flow without breaking stride.
AI news brief: Stock valuations across Japan’s entertainment and content industry are hitting a structural turning point. As the pandemic-era stay-at-home spending boom fades, capital markets are pivoting hard toward AI plays, triggering a systematic re-rating across the entire entertainment sector. Companies like Nintendo and Sanrio, icons of Japan’s soft power, are all seeing downward pressure on their stock prices.