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Researchers have unveiled EEG-UDAF, an unsupervised domain adaptation framework. It fuses dual-view frequency features with spatio-temporal modeling to recognize emotions from brainwaves.
Read the original →Toride City in Ibaraki Prefecture introduced an AI-based customer harassment countermeasure system at its citizen consultation desk from October 1. The system has begun operation.
Read the original →Google announced on October 7 (local time) that its website "SynthID Detector," which identifies AI-generated content, is now open to the public.
Read the original →AI Storm Co., Ltd. (formerly Xseed Co., Ltd.), headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, will hold the seminar on Thursday, September 17, 2026, jointly with Japan Human Capital Co., Ltd. The speaker is Genki Mizuno, representative director of Jonetsu Inc.
Read the original →Three former OpenAI employees who were dismissed urged the company in a letter to work with outside safety auditors and keep its ability to monitor increasingly advanced AI models. The letter, seen by the Wall Street Journal and addressed to OpenAI's board and safety committee, warns that AI companies could lose the ability to monitor the chain of thought of AI systems. The chain of thought is a record of an AI system's reasoning, which companies analyze to understand how a model approaches problems. Researchers say it is not a complete indicator of a model's behavior or intent, but it is widely seen as a valuable tool.
Read the original →EBiDAN, the artist group from Stardust Promotion, released an SNS posting guideline for fans on the 8th.
Read the original →AI did not create the human skills gap; it accelerated its consequences. Critical thinking suffers, creating a workforce-development priority for human resource leaders.
Read the original →The platform frees academics for research. It is heading to 220,000 school students.
Read the original →NEXER Group announced on the 8th the results of a survey it conducted jointly with the group tutoring school Shinsuijuku. The survey, titled "AI Learning and In-Person Instruction: The Future of Learning," covered 500 men and women nationwide.
Read the original →Princess Cruises has introduced a native app in ChatGPT that allows travellers to search and compare cruises using conversational queries.
Read the original →Dallas-based Southwest Airlines debuted a ChatGPT plugin for searching and comparing its flights. It is the first step in a phased AI push with OpenAI and AWS.
Read the original →Three TV commercials for the "PeopleX AI Interview" service, starring actress Ai Iinuma, began airing on the 9th in six areas nationwide, mainly Kanto and Kansai. The commercials are titled "Watch Me at the Interview," "Overlapping Interview Times" and "Inconsistent Interview Ratings."
Read the original →Google has released a new note-taking app called Google AI Edge Foresight. It can transcribe conversations without sending them to a data center. It is currently available only for Mac.
Read the original →In Canvas, Sidekick directly generates Liquid code, the template language used in Shopify themes. It takes into account the components, design rules and implementation specifications of the existing theme.
Read the original →Necco Co., Ltd. has begun offering NeccoSpeak, a voice dialogue AI plugin for WordPress, free of charge. The plugin responds to visitors' questions.
Read the original →Computer scientists built an AI platform that records every move students make. They found that half of all students asked AI to write an assigned essay for them. They also found that recording students' behavior could change it.
Read the original →Global artificial intelligence companies are successively introducing watermarking technology that can identify text written using generative AI.
Read the original →Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board has barred AI-generated or AI-altered personal evidence in hearings. A written declaration is required whenever AI is used.
Read the original →Global artificial intelligence companies are successively introducing watermarking technology that can identify text written using generative AI.
Read the original →Elections for governor, prefectural assembly and local heads and councils are scheduled in Yamanashi Prefecture from the start of 2027 through spring. Ahead of these, a mayoral election is expected in November in Nirasaki, in the prefecture's northwest.
Read the original →Three researchers who worked on ensuring the safe operation of AI at OpenAI say they were suddenly fired. They are questioning the reasons for dismissal that the company gave them.
Read the original →This series is for people about to start using generative AI, introducing the basics and prompts that can be copied and used as they are. The 75th installment explains prompts for generative AI translation into English that make key points easier to grasp and make the English read naturally.
Read the original →The new Technogym AI Ecosystem is designed to allow luxury properties to transform into authentic active longevity destinations.
Read the original →New research shows that more than one in two Australian managers who use artificial intelligence at work have applied it to at least one sensitive people management responsibility.
Read the original →Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute said OpenAI needs to restrict access to ChatGPT for any users under 18 until it strengthens safety guardrails and the parental alert system in ChatGPT for Teens. ChatGPT for Teens was released in August of this year.
Read the original →Edflex says most L&D vendors cover only one or two steps of the learning cycle. Its AI-powered learning solution connects skill assessment, training and real-world practice, and proves the impact.
Read the original →A first-year university student, known as Mā-san, entered a national university in Kyushu through school-recommendation selection. The student was asked about the preparation steps that led to admission. The student aimed for a field that makes use of physics, and decided in the summer of third year of high school to apply by this route.
Read the original →Sourcenext announced the feature in a press release dated October 8, 2026, at 10:00. The new 'Trouble Response Report' for the AutoMemo transcription AI is meant to help confirm what was said in customer interactions. It follows the mandate for measures against customer harassment.
Read the original →As AI automates more work, young employees are losing opportunities to build judgment, professional intuition and tacit knowledge through hands-on work. The description calls this a serious structural risk of depleting the future leadership pipeline.
Read the original →A University of Texas at Austin professor presented research on sycophancy and empathy displayed by large language models at a Georgetown University lecture on Oct. 2.
Read the original →The exhibition 'Everyone's Brain World 2026: Super Diverse' is scheduled for November 7-8 at Tokyo Portcity Takeshiba. It is organized by the general incorporated association Chotayo.
Read the original →A student project called Vision Craft at Nihon Kogakuin College, run by Katayanagi Gakuen, produced a virtual company named Trihoop. The company built a prototype app that uses AI to read a plant's condition and convey it in words people can understand.
Read the original →Automation Anywhere agreed on October 8 to acquire Boost.ai, a conversational AI company. The deal brings in the customer service area and is meant to strengthen autonomous automation that connects customer and employee inquiries to middle- and back-office work.
Read the original →The description says low-quality AI-generated short films in the entertainment industry act like 'octopus tentacles', producing addictive dopamine release that has captivated many viewers. It asks what lies behind this.
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