Japan Tech & Culture Pulse

Asian markets slid Friday as a Wall Street sell-off spread overseas. Japan's tech-heavy Nikkei fell roughly 6%, with the losses concentrated in...

The AI-led sell-off on Wall Street Thursday saw the Nasdaq fall 5.5%. Stocks have been swinging on worries that AI data centre construction may slow...

@gdb praised the team's work to help secure Internet infrastructure, referring to an "upcoming cyber model". The quoted post reports that the...

Oracle has called off a proposed five-year deal to lease advanced AI chips to Tencent, following direct intervention by the Trump administration over...

Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped 5.9%, entering bear market territory, after heavy Wall Street selling hit AI-linked shares hardest.

• Nasdaq correction:...

• Standard Chartered and SBI back crypto insurer Soter.
• Diversified RWA stablecoins are described as sustaining a 5-7% yield from real credit, while...

Goodfire says its technique reads a model's internal concepts to reward how it solves a task, not just the final answer. In one math test,...

Enterprise AI is becoming a portfolio problem, with CIOs needing to match each workload to the right model, capacity, and infrastructure. A...

A three-foot C.C. plush is one way to celebrate Code Geass's 20th anniversary, and it shows how premium anime merch is being built:

• Size and...

Glassnode's metrics offer useful clues, but each has clear boundaries:

• Valuation: MVRV above 3.0 has historically preceded major corrections, and...

Bitcoin fell below the key $76K support on Nov. 5, and the crypto market lost $140 billion in market cap in just four hours. It bottomed near $75,900,...

Anime is carrying Japan's content export story, but how far support extends beyond it remains open.

• Record spending: Preliminary figures show anime...

Anthropic's new Personal Finance feature lets Claude read your bank data, sort spending by category, and, according to Anthropic, flag oddities like...

Binance and Polymarket have proposed a Polygon hard fork to recover about 70.49 million POL, worth roughly $6.8 million, taken in separate security...

AI stocks suffered a wipeout that sent Wall Street reeling, with the S&P 500 tumbling more than 3%. The source offers only this headline, so it can't show what drove the drop or how much the sell-off reflects AI optimism in the broader market.

The revised operating cash-flow forecast is 1.6 trillion yen, with the article citing the impact of U.S. tariff refunds and memory market conditions on the full-year outlook. The excerpt cuts off before giving details of those effects.

Revenue increased in the second-quarter briefing, driven by higher musical-instrument sales, particularly digital instruments, along with a positive impact from yen depreciation. The briefing does not quantify how much each factor contributed.

Stablecoins are being pitched on several fronts, but most of these claims come from companies, executives and forecasters rather than proven...

• Security push: ICBA, a community banking group, argues the Binance attack, which appears to be North Korea's work, shows crypto needs stricter...

• Nasdaq approval followed Canary Capital's November 4 update, giving INJ its first regulated US exchange-traded product.
• Investors can gain...