The number of public school students requiring special Japanese-language instruction reached a record high of 84,759 in fiscal 2025. The education ministry plans to launch a model project in fiscal 2027 to provide basic Japanese-language instruction for school life and classes to children of foreign nationals living in Japan. In response to an increase in the number of such children, the ministry aims to establish guidelines for effective language lessons through the project. The number of public school students requiring special Japanese-language instruction, including those who are unable to communicate adequately in daily Japanese conversation, reached a record high of 84,759 in fiscal 2025, which ended in March this year. The number doubled over the past nine years, according to the ministry. Of those students, about 10% were not given sufficient instruction at their schools due to staff shortages and other reasons.

OpenAI, founded in San Francisco in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab, burst into the mainstream with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. It has since restructured as a for-profit corporation. SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES - ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Monday took the first step toward going public, one week after archrival Anthropic announced its own filing, as both companies look to raise the massive sums needed to expand. In a social media post, the Sam Altman-led company said it had confidentially submitted an S-1 registration statement to U.S. securities regulators but had "not decided on timing yet" for any potential debut. OpenAI's move follows a confidential filing by Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, which announced last Monday that it had taken the same step. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

SpaceX's stock market blast-off could be Musk's biggest gamble yet It's 07:25 am, 13 October 2024, at Starbase, near Boca Chica on the Texas side of the US/Mexico border, and on the launch pad stands the biggest rocket ever made. Its engines fire and it climbs into the skies over the Gulf of Mexico to cheers and screams in the SpaceX control room. But the launch is not the main event. What goes up must come down - and how it comes down will become a milestone in space exploration. Seven minutes later, the massive rocket booster that blasted the craft towards space starts falling back to Earth - until its engines reignite as planned.

Could humanoid robots be heading for the battlefield? I've come to an industrial space in a tech-heavy area of San Francisco expecting to see a menacing humanoid robot solider doing something combat-like: the future of land-based warfare, perhaps. Instead, the black shiny faceless Phantom robot is engaged in free play, manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks. We need data from it just interacting with its environment [and] this is today's menu, explains Sankaet Pathak, co-founder and CEO of two-year-old start-up Foundation Robotics, which is developing Phantom for military and civilian applications. Later he pushes its 80kg steel-covered body around the room to demonstrate its stability and shows me how it walks.

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PCWorld examines Apple's revamped Siri, which integrates AI across macOS with a focus on productivity and seamless ecosystem functionality. Apple's approach prioritizes local, private AI processing and practical user benefits, contrasting sharply with Microsoft's fragmented Copilot solutions. The unified Siri experience demonstrates how Apple's strategic AI integration creates a more holistic user experience than Windows' various disconnected tools. Apple's secret is that, like the Queen of England, it is never early, and never late. It is always on time.

PCWorld interviewed Intel Fellow Tom Petersen at Computex 2026 about Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme chipset designed for handheld gaming PCs. Intel claims the Arc G3 Extreme delivers a 42% performance advantage over AMD's competing Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor. The chipset targets sustained high performance in thin and light portable devices, potentially revolutionizing the handheld gaming market. Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme chipset could be a game-changer for handheld gaming PCs, and we got our first glimpse of how that'd be on the show floor at Computex 2026. PCWorld's Adam Patrick Murray was there in Taiwan all week checking out the future of PCs, and that included a quick chat with Intel Fellow Tom Petersen about the gaming potential of the Arc G3 Extreme.

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Caitlyn Jenner biographer and Robin Riker's ex William Hasley found dead on hiking trail at 78 Karmelo Anthony's mother sobs with shock as son is found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf, 17, in stabbing that horrified America: Live updates Disgraceful texts'hot' teacher sent boy, 17, who she had illegal sex with where she moaned about her HUSBAND Everyone always said I cleared my throat a lot. But then I developed shoulder pain and doctors discovered the sinister cause... the world's deadliest cancer. Don't leave it too late like I did Moment Real Housewives star Lenny Hochstein's sexual assault accuser'dances' as she leaves Star Island mansion - before filing $100k civil lawsuit Leaked transcript of UNAIRED 60 Minutes interview exposes REAL reason'callous' CBS star Scott Pelley'deserved to be fired' Urgent recall for 1.1m vehicles over fears they could spontaneously CATCH FIRE even when parked Disturbing new death scene photos show tech whistleblower's haunting final moments... as forensic report casts doubt on suicide claims: 'Execution angle' 'Great' mom, 32, tried to gas herself and her three young kids to death after inviting them to'popcorn sleepover' in car, prosecutors allege The porn-fuelled fantasy middle-class husbands are desperate to try with their wives... and it almost always ends in divorce: JANA HOCKING John Oliver's private panic: Late-night curse spreads and host prepares for worst as insiders reveal his desperate'plan B'... and the industry whispers swirling about his fate Woke Vegas school compared boy to racist cross burner over pro-ICE stickers and expelled him... but did not punish pro-migrant students for class walkout, lawsuit alleges Medical student, 24, died by suicide in his white coat a day after he was suspended for alleged'inappropriate' behavior towards female patient, lawsuit alleges, as his heartbreaking goodbye note to parents is revealed Mother's final words before she was shot dead'by new husband' in front of her two young children All the backstage gossip from Miami Swim Week: Insider exposes'catty' VIP's diva demands... STEALING... and'morbidly embarrassing' celeb moment everyone is whispering about Hurricane trackers are keeping a watchful eye on the Gulf of America for possible tropical development in the coming days. While forecasters do not expect a major tropical cyclone, they are monitoring a potential low-pressure system that could bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the Southeast by at least June 13. Forecast models suggest the disturbance could form in the Gulf or western Caribbean around the middle of the month before tracking northward toward the US.