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Artificial intelligence may reshape millions of jobs, but retraining alone is unlikely to protect workers from the economic and social disruptions that could follow.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2026
What if AI retraining is just a comforting lie?
The risk is that “reskilling” becomes the excuse that makes mass unemployment politically palatable and, basically, the victim’s fault.
NTT Global Data Centers is working with Citigroup to raise funds for new data centers by selling stakes in a development company for the projects in the U.S.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 12, 2026
NTT unit said to seek $1 billion to develop U.S. data centers
The company is working with Citigroup to raise the money by selling stakes in a development company for the new data center projects.
The tension between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is the driving force in today’s biggest technological revolution.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Jun 11, 2026
Anthropic v. OpenAI: Behind the bitter battle for the future of AI
The companies are racing to market, viewing a first listing as a way to frame how investors will value the companies and establish their CEO as the leading voice of AI.
The Shanghai skyline. As AI spreads across workplaces, China is also having to contend with chronic weakness in the jobs market.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2026
AI sparks alarm in China with call to protect worker rights
The Workers’ Daily urged government agencies to mount an active response as new threats emerge to the rights of employees.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei speaks during the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2026
Japan financial firms to join NEC-Anthropic AI collaboration
The partnership aims to improve the quality of financial services for customers using AI and to strengthen measures against cyberattacks.
Rapidus will exchange memorandums of understanding on the cooperation with U.K. Semiconductor Center, which supports the British chip industry through funding by the British government, and Fondazione Chips-IT, an Italian government research institute.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2026
Rapidus to cooperate with British and Italian institutions
The Japanese semiconductor company will sign agreements with public institutions in the two countries during Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s trip to Europe on Saturday.
TDK sees Fabric8Labs' 3D-printing technology as an efficient way to process pure copper into cold plates connecting to semiconductors inside data center servers.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2026
TDK buys U.S. 3D-printing startup to amp up AI ecosystem bet
The Tokyo-based supplier of iPhone batteries is optimistic about Fabric8Labs’ 3D-printing technology for data center server applications.
Anthropic is balancing a safety-focused image while rapidly advancing autonomous AI like Mythos, a powerful system some worry could be dangerous.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2026
Anthropic’s latest AIs are making some customers uneasy
Anthropic staff have access to the technology and say it is more human than its forerunners.
Several countries have been considering ​tightening rules around AI use as well as social media use for children.
WORLD
Jun 11, 2026
Canada moves to ban social media for children under 16 and regulate AI chatbots
Companies could face penalties of 3% ​of global revenue or up to C$10 million ($7.2 million), whichever is more, for failing to comply.
A medical student poses questions to a surgical support software tool that uses artificial intelligence.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2026
Japan rushing to develop AI tools to aid surgeons
One surgery support software tool analyzes images of organs and blood vessels using generative AI and creates step-by-step procedures and points requiring caution.
SoftBank Group's efforts to secure at least $6 billion through a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake have stalled after the company lowered its fundraising target.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 10, 2026
SoftBank’s attempt to get $6 billion OpenAI margin loan stalls
The development comes just weeks after the Japanese conglomerate cut its initial target from $10 billion.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosts a roundtable meeting for leaders of National Health Service trusts, at No. 10 Downing St. in London on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jun 10, 2026
U.K.’s Starmer to announce social media ban for under-16s in days
Two broad options are being considered: a “blanket” ban on under-16s using social media, or age restrictions on key features of social networks and apps.
An attendee inspects a silicon wafer at the Computex 2026 expo in Taipei.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 10, 2026
Taiwan eyes curbs on AI chip sales to China to align with U.S.
The move would mark an effort to address semiconductor smuggling but risks drawing a rebuke from Beijing.
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell at a keynote conference at the 2026 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 9, 2026
How SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell has achieved Musk’s lofty ambitions
The company’s president has spent 24 years focused on building and selling SpaceX through her engineering expertise and dealmaking ​instincts.
Visitors attend Google's I/O 2026 developer conference in Mountain View, California, on May 19. The event primarily focused on the next generation of artificial intelligence and developer tools.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2026
Google’s AI shift is causing a collective freak-out
The new dark art of search engine optimization is known as GEO (generative is now the first word) and it paradoxically has a more human flavor than the era of backlinks.
OpenAI, founded in San Francisco in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab, burst into the mainstream with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. It has since restructured as a for-profit corporation.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2026
OpenAI makes move to go public one week after rival Anthropic
The company says it has “not decided on timing yet” for any potential debut.
Shareholders in Goldman Sachs Group-backed firm Go sold shares at ¥2,400 apiece, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2026
Goldman-backed Go prices Japan’s biggest 2026 IPO at upper end
Shareholders in the Goldman Sachs Group-backed firm sold shares at ¥2,400 apiece, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 8, 2026
South Korea names first female prime minister in decades to lead AI push
Lee Jae Myung hopes the former Naver CEO will help better use the nation’s tech expertise for future growth and ensure its benefits spread more widely through the economy.
A trading room at Hana Bank in Seoul in April
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 8, 2026
South Korea’s AI impact sparks pressure across government bond market
The nation’s government bonds have lost 7.5% this year in local-currency terms, the worst performance among 44 markets.
A robotic arm manipulates SK Hynix wafers at a summit in Seoul on Nov. 3. SK Group Chairman Chey Tae Won projected strong demand for artificial intelligence and downplayed concerns about a spending bubble.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2026
A trillion-dollar question for memory chipmakers
We are only in the second year of the AI boom, making it too early to know if it will outlast past cycles.
Uruguay federation reportedly cancels charter flight after World Cup exit
Uruguay's Jose Maria Gimenez reacts after the team's loss against Spain at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Yen hits 40-year low against the dollar, breaking ¥162 level
Japan's currency broke ¥162 to the dollar on Tuesday in Tokyo.
Japan falls in gut-wrenching fashion as Brazil strikes late to win World Cup clash
Brazil's Gabriel Martinelli (right) shoots past Japan defenders Shogo Taniguchi (left) and Takehiro Tomiyasu to score in the second half of a match in the round of 32 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Houston on Monday.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.
‘The colors speak for themselves’: How Japan’s chroma bible went global
“A Dictionary of Color Combinations” is meant to function as a quick-reference guide for artists, designers and anyone with a passing interest in aesthetics as a quantifiable pursuit.

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