Google invested in Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based developer of AI models and applications, Sakana said Friday. Google invested at the same valuation as the Japanese company’s recently announced funding ...

Japan’s antitrust watchdog said Monday that US search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan. The Japan Fair Trade Commission said in a statement that its ...

Google has invested in Japanese startup Sakana AI in a move to strengthen Gemini’s presence in Japan where OpenAI holds ...

Google is under the microscope again — this time in Japan. The country’s Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against the tech giant, claiming it may have broken Japan’s antitrust ...

Japanese regulators on Tuesday issued a “cease and desist order” against Google for violation of the country’s anti-monopoly laws. As per the order, Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has directed ...

Google has invested in Japanese startup Sakana AI to increase the adoption of the Gemini chatbot in Japan. The move highlights Google’s focus on expanding artif ...

A woman walks by a giant screen with a logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) TOKYO (AFP) — ...

Sakana AI says the partnership is designed to blend Google’s infrastructure strength with its own research agility and ...

The AI race in corporate Japan remains wide open because of a reluctance to change business models that — in some cases — ...