The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."
—Stephen Hawking
The appointments of Michael Rogers and Tom Moran add senior US military and intelligence expertise to the Japanese AI company’s efforts to address emerging security challenges associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in national security.
Japan is backing a semiconductor manufacturing initiative worth up to $21 billion to fund two planned chip fabrication plants operated by GlobalFoundries in Malta, New York. The project aims to expand US chipmaking capacity, strengthen supply-chain resilience and deepen semiconductor cooperation between Washington and Tokyo.
Sakana AI and UC Berkeley researchers have introduced Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS), a framework that trains AI models using the collective work of virtual agents. Experiments reported improvements in score per output token across four research benchmarks after two self-improvement cycles.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said key provisions of two 2025 cybersecurity laws take effect October 1. The measures create a public-private Cyber Council and introduce mandatory asset and incident reporting for operators of power, gas and other critical systems as Japan confronts rising state-backed attacks and a record number of ransomware cases.
AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber has joined Japan-based Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor, where he will help guide research into recursive self-improvement and world models.
