AI Tsushin — the latest AI news, curated for Japan
The latest AI news in Japanese and English: AI companies, models, workflows, Hugging Face, Civitai and local LLMs, always linking to the original source.
- Block introduces speech model Dessa to recognize emotions and sarcasm Models
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it… - OpenAI builds offline environment for training frontier models without internet access AI Companies
OpenAI announced it has built an offline testing environment to train its frontier models without internet access following a series of… - AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth Research
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. - Can AI smelliness be eliminated with a prohibition list: Words on the list almost disappeared, but punctuation marks actually increased Agents & Dev
An article titled "100 Consecutive Slop Expressions" (by todesking, 2026-10-12), which collected unnatural expressions appearing in… - Salesforce AI rolls out AI inbox management Agents & Dev
Salesforce AI announced AI inbox management, which small teams can use to organize their emails. - Study finds coding agent harnesses increase costs without improving performance Agents & Dev
A study shows that switching between harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely improves pass rates, while costs per… - Dify v1.18.0 Released: Featuring Agent Routing and Portable Apps Workflows & Nodes
Dify v1.18.0 has been released, introducing Agent-driven workflow routing, portable apps in .ifpkg format, and deeper visibility into… - Microsoft reports large-scale AI agent attacks by Chinese group Agents & Dev
On the 21st (US time), Microsoft announced that a group called 'Storm-0940' with links to the Chinese government used the agent-type AI… - n8n releases version 1.123.87 Workflows & Nodes
n8n, a workflow automation platform, released version 1.123.87 on October 23, 2026. - OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache Agents & Dev
It was reported that OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to communicate covertly through side channels such as CPU cache. - Pennsylvania signs law requiring labels on AI-generated ads Policy & Society
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. - RecursiveSI/flint trends on Hugging Face Hugging Face
The model RecursiveSI/flint for the text-generation task is trending on Hugging Face. - Chinese attackers automate attacks with AI agents, involved in 'ConnectWise' supply chain attack: Microsoft warns Agents & Dev
Microsoft announced that a China-linked attacker 'Storm-0940' is automating attacks with the open-source AI penetration testing tool… - BBC's Blue Planet III to keep imperfect shots in the age of AI Image & Video Gen
BBC's nature series Blue Planet III aims to prove its authenticity by leaving in less-than-perfect shots to differentiate itself from… - Microsoft Research announces Flint-interactive, a language for creating interactive data visualizations Agents & Dev
Microsoft Research has announced Flint-interactive, a language for AI agents to create interactive data visualizations. - Aged Intelligence Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom AI Companies
The fast-growing events startup Aged Intelligence Society brings women together to solve midlife problems using frontier tools. - Langflow 1.13.0 Released with New Admin APIs and Components Workflows & Nodes
Langflow 1.13.0 introduces new features including team and user administration APIs and CLI, FunASR transcription, Plivo bundles, and… - Hugging Face provides tool to check if models run on AWS Trainium Hugging Face
Hugging Face provides a way to check whether your models run on AWS Trainium. - Counting operations stopped by Claude Code's auto mode from conversation logs Agents & Dev
Claude Code's auto mode uses another model (classifier) to check each operation and stop dangerous ones. An analysis of about one month of… - Gomumari's specialized business AI-BPO begins providing 'Database creation of complaints, VoC, and claims' AI Companies
Gomumari's specialized business AI-BPO has begun providing 'Database creation of complaints, VoC, and claims'. - New open-source repository 'earshot' appears on GitHub Agents & Dev
- black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein trending on Hugging Face Hugging Face
- Popular LoRA 'CAT - Citron Styles' on Civitai Image & Video Gen
- All Claude functions become available from Google Cloud AI Companies
- Panasonic HD subsidiary uploads personal information of approximately 330,000 employees to prohibited generative AI Policy & Society
- Hugging Face releases Diffusers 0.42.0 with support for FLUX.3 and Bria Fibo 2.0 Hugging Face
- LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape Hugging Face
- PHP2Shell, attempt to exploit 4 days before announcement: 'Investigate retroactively to before the announcement date,' says Amazon Research
- OpenAI scales online storage to deliver 12x faster reads for ChatGPT AI Companies
- Coding performance close to Opus 5.5, 3-trillion-class LLM that also makes 3D "Kimi K3.1 Pro". Open-weighting by November 4 Models
- Moving ComfyUI from Intel Arc to Arm's WSL2: Component versions did not match despite same requirements Workflows & Nodes
- "Claude Mythos 5" targets real developers regardless of signs of harm — Anthropic and AISI release analysis results Models
- Measured ComfyUI with 16GB VRAM: Images take 5–8 seconds per image, videos take about 2 seconds for 1–5 minutes (0.41.0) Workflows & Nodes
- ComfyUI v0.42.4 Released Workflows & Nodes
- LangChain releases langchain-core 1.7.0 Workflows & Nodes
- OpenAI and Poland's NASK partner to advance AI safety and security AI Companies
- ComfyUI v0.42.5 Released Workflows & Nodes
- OpenAI strengthens containment for frontier model training environment AI Companies
- Databricks advocates for Spark declarative pipelines built for agents Agents & Dev
- XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B trends on Hugging Face Hugging Face
- Design system for AI applications "solid-glass" released Workflows & Nodes
- datasocial/tiktok-5.6B-videos trends on Hugging Face Hugging Face
- MCP Servers v2.1.0 released, fixing eight vulnerabilities in three servers Agents & Dev
- flux-3-image-klein-comfy trends on Hugging Face Hugging Face
- scenario-labs/3d-collection trends on Hugging Face Hugging Face
- Claude Code v2.1.310 released with Monitor tool addition and bug fixes Agents & Dev
- Spotify takes measures against "low-quality AI music," excluding 50 million songs from recommendations AI Companies
- RPA agent "Cowork" fully automates PC operations, further speeding up M365 app operations such as Excel Agents & Dev
- AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable: The PHP Meltdown Research
- Three fired OpenAI safety researchers deny allegations of leaking confidential information AI Companies
- Ollama v0.40.11 released with speech generation support on macOS Local & Open Source
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 trends on Hugging Face Hugging Face
- Google suggests Gmail and other data may be used for ads when using personalized AI features Policy & Society
- Moving "one illustration" with RX 9060 XT × Windows — Actual measurement records of pose correction, 10-second video, and AI inspection Workflows & Nodes
- Canva launches its first in-house image model, Canva Craft Image & Video Gen
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, robot "Home LEO" capable of conversation and searching for things: Daily life support for the elderly Hardware & Robotics
- Norway to submit "AI glasses" regulation bill; rising concerns such as surreptitious filming... countries also accelerating response Policy & Society
- Team Mirai's Mr. Anno: "AI models with high cyberattack capabilities are spreading" In response to successive information leaks, "It is necessary to hurry the response" Policy & Society
- Reports: OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic Agents & Dev
- South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best AI in Japan