AI News Flash: SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son declared at this week’s shareholders meeting that he’ll keep working into his 70s, going all-in on Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). Son explicitly wants another 10-15 years to push the initiative, ditching his succession plan to personally steer the company’s direction. Son pushed back strongly against those calling the AI industry a bubble, directly labeling such views as ‘blasphemy’
AI News Flash: Indian customer engagement software company MoEngage acquires San Francisco startup Aampe in an all-cash deal; while the amount remains undisclosed, sources tell TechCrunch the deal is worth tens of millions. MoEngage co-founder and CEO Raviteja Dodda says the bet is that ‘assigning a dedicated AI agent to each customer’ will become the future of marketing…
AI News Flash: In Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, on a crisp morning, farmers drive sheep through sorting gates using bells, whistles and shouts to select the best quality animals from the mob. Three-year-old Australian Kelpie ‘Sky’ works behind the herd, flexibly gathering the mob as directed and steadily pushing them into the pen. This traditional farm scene…
AI News Flash: OpenAI announces support for building shared standards for advanced AI, with participation covering the development of evaluation frameworks, promotion of safety practices, and establishment of cross-border collaboration mechanisms. This initiative is advanced through Appia Foundation, aiming to promote consensus among different institutions, governments, and research units on AI governance. However, the original summary only touches on the title level, without providing the specific structure of Appia Foundation, technical details of the evaluation framework, participating member composition, or implementation standards for safety practices.
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 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: 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.