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TOKYO -- Japanese financial services group SBI Holdings plans to invest around 10 billion yen ($69 million) in Tokyo-based Preferred Networks and work with the startup on designing chips for artificial intelligence, Nikkei has learned.
YOKOHAMA -- Isuzu Motors will jointly develop self-driving trucks capable of full automation under certain conditions with U.S. vehicle software startup Applied Intuition, aiming to put the vehicles on Japanese highways from fiscal 2027.
FRANKFURT/NAGOYA -- Toyota Motor and BMW will upgrade their partnership in fuel cell vehicles as the two auto giants see them as prospective next-generation eco-friendly models amid slowing growth in demand for electric vehicles, Nikkei has learned. BMW aims to begin mass production of a fuel cell vehicle model in a few years.
TOKYO -- Takeda Pharmaceutical plans seek approval from U.S. regulators to sell a dengue fever vaccine there, aiming to become the first Japanese company to enter the American vaccine market, Nikkei has learned.
TOKYO -- China is increasingly suspected of making "white hat" hackers, who are usually employed to find weaknesses in cybersecurity, complicit in cyberattacks, accelerating the country's offensive efforts in the field by effectively mobilizing its world-class private hackers.
TOKYO -- Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has emerged as the most popular choice to replace outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, according to a Nikkei opinion poll conducted this week.
TOKYO -- Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings filed an application to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, Nikkei has learned, aiming to go public in October amid soaring appetite for semiconductors from the artificial intelligence sector.