Japan stories
Hotels and booking platforms could gain a new sales channel as OwlTing starts handling AI agent-led reservations, payments and payouts.
Asia Pacific operators must turn 5G investment into enterprise revenue if the region is to make 6G more than a distant ambition.
Employers may be underestimating training needs, as a survey found employees far less confident than HR leaders about AI readiness across Asia-Pacific.
Japan's roads, cityscapes and mountain passes make the latest Forza Horizon a more varied, portable and polished racer on Xbox and PC.
Continuity is at stake as PFU's EMEA unit begins a handover to Yasunari Shimizu after Hiroaki Kashiwagi's five-year tenure.
Poor data quality has been slowing enterprise AI roll-outs, prompting Denodo to link live governed data to AWS agentic tools across multiple services.
Customers can now govern AI agents across mixed systems as Okta adds Bedrock support and lets firms keep existing identity providers.
The expansion could help regulated firms keep sensitive traffic within legal boundaries during outages, failovers or congestion across clouds.
The pact advances a UK-led instrument towards the Moon as researchers hunt for minerals, volatiles and water ice on future commercial landings.
AI is now being used to write exploits and malware, with Google saying it has traced the first zero-day linked to machine assistance.
The hire signals a sharper regional push as Cornerstone seeks to win more HR software business across Asia Pacific and Japan amid fierce competition.
Businesses can now centralise meeting notes as Plaud moves beyond solo use, with privacy set by default and controls for teams.
The funding will help the cyber security start-up expand in Japan and Europe as it pushes AI tools to cut investigation times and false positives.
Fewer than 1 in 20 governments have made major investment, even as concerns over resilience and security push sovereign AI up the agenda.
The handover comes as PagerDuty seeks to build on stabilising retention, accelerating new business and momentum in its AI-first operations cloud.
Office projects across Asia Pacific are becoming harder to budget, with labour shortages, materials inflation and geopolitics lifting fit-out costs.
Industrial operators can now buy and deploy Nozomi's OT security platform inside their own Google Cloud environments, easing procurement.
More travellers are avoiding roaming fees by activating eSIMs before departure, with half now using them for overseas trips, Ubigi said.
Atturra and EasyStepIn dominated Boomi's FY26 APJ partner awards, reflecting the software maker's reliance on regional channel deals.
The facility aims to turn satellite and geospatial tools into commercial gains for Southeast Asian industries as space activity expands.
