Sep 18, 2026, 17:45 UTC
The Candle submarine cable consortium reached a construction milestone in Indonesia, landing a golden buoy at Tanjung Bemban on Batam, as part of the 8,000-km system linking six Asian markets.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 13:00 UTC
XLSmart announced the start of construction on the 8,000-kilometre Candle Cable System, a subsea fibre optic cable linking Indonesia with Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 01:15 UTC
Japanese SaaS-related shares including Money Forward and Sansan rose sharply while AI and semiconductor stocks fell broadly after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued in a blog post that the frontier AI development race should be slowed.
Sep 11, 2026, 08:37 UTC
NEC developed an AI-based system that transcribes and analyzes 119 emergency calls in real time to reduce the workload of dispatchers, aiming for practical use in fiscal 2027 and sales to municipal fire departments.
Source:Sep 9, 2026, 09:45 UTC
NEC held a briefing in Tokyo on September 9, 2026, announcing the full-scale operation of its AI-only unmanned department, the Corporate AI Workforce Division, established in August 2026, which deploys multiple AI agents with executive and managerial roles to autonomously execute and manage tasks.
Source:Sep 8, 2026, 05:17 UTC
NEC announced it will launch on November 1, 2026, an updated version of its program tampering detection software that adds automatic SBOM generation, reducing SBOM creation time for 10,000 software items from about 70 days to about 3 minutes.
Source:Sep 5, 2026, 12:08 UTC
NEC has decided to halt development of its quantum computer hardware, citing difficulty in achieving returns that justify investment due to the long time to practical application, and will instead focus on quantum computing technology development and services.
Sep 4, 2026, 04:58 UTC
NEC unveiled a facial recognition payment service at SoftBank's Takeshiba headquarters employee cafeteria in Tokyo's Minato ward, in collaboration with SB Payment Service and SB C&S.
Source:Sep 2, 2026, 16:30 UTC
Transgene and NEC Corporation announced that TG4050, an individualized neoantigen therapeutic vaccine, achieved 100% three-year disease-free survival in a Phase 1 trial for head and neck cancer, and published results in Nature Communications.
Source:Sep 2, 2026, 08:51 UTC
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and NEC announced on September 2 that they signed a memorandum of understanding for a strategic partnership in the defense sector, focusing on defense drones and AI-based command-and-control systems.
Sep 2, 2026, 07:00 UTC
NEC announced it is considering acquisitions in the manufacturing sector, focusing on physical AI and aerospace/defense, as part of its medium-term plan through March 2031 with a 1.3 trillion yen growth investment budget.
Source:Sep 2, 2026, 05:18 UTC
NEC announced on September 2 that it will launch a security service from the end of September that detects and handles vulnerabilities in corporate systems, using advanced AI from Anthropic and others.
Source:Sep 1, 2026, 03:58 UTC
NEC announced it will establish a new subsidiary, NEC Learning & Career, effective October 1, to support employee reskilling for AI-driven work, integrating the human resource development functions of NEC Business Intelligence into NEC Life Career.
Source:Aug 31, 2026, 02:00 UTC
Cornelis and NEC Corporation expanded their infrastructure partnership into Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific region after NEC validated Cornelis' CN5000 networking technology for high-performance computing workloads.
Source:Aug 28, 2026, 11:48 UTC
NEC announced on August 28 that it will sell an AI agent that autonomously handles a series of supply chain operations, with service starting in September.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 01:40 UTC
Digital Arts announced it will provide security technology based on its Z-FILTER network security product to NEC's new security service NEC Cyber Secure Package, with sales starting at the end of August.
Aug 26, 2026, 05:48 UTC
Treasure Factory and NEC both raised their full-year forecasts after strong first-quarter results, with Treasure Factory reporting 16% revenue growth and 24% operating profit growth, and NEC reporting 15% revenue growth and 66% operating profit growth.
Source:Aug 25, 2026, 20:00 UTC
NEC announced that it will absorb its subsidiary NEC Solution Innovators, effective October 1, to accelerate organizational change for the AI era.
Source:Aug 25, 2026, 10:06 UTC
NEC's corporate venture capital fund, NEC Orchestrating Future Fund, invested an undisclosed amount in U.S.-based robotics startup Dexmate, which develops the Vega humanoid robot and a physical AI platform.
Aug 25, 2026, 08:33 UTC
About 40 banks in Japan, led by GMO Aozora Net Bank, will start a proof-of-concept for mutual remittance using digital currency, aiming to build a 24/7 low-cost instant settlement infrastructure with major and regional banks.
Source:Aug 21, 2026, 07:40 UTC
KDDI, NTT, and five other companies announced on August 21 that they have formulated international design guidelines for all-photonic networks (APN) to promote their adoption.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 03:52 UTC
NEC announced on August 18 that it will start selling AI technology that automates work on personal computers through Microsoft's service platform starting in August.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 01:40 UTC
NEC was awarded a research project by Japan's Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) to develop AI that analyzes underwater acoustics, aiming for practical use by fiscal 2027.
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