In ICL, a conditional generative model (CGM) is prompted with a dataset and a prediction question and asked to generate a response.

Visitors at the Tokyo Game Show 2025 held in the city of Chiba in September. The government has set a target of boosting annual overseas sales of Japanese content such as anime and video games to ¥20 trillion by 2033. The government will step up support for the overseas expansion of content industries such as video games and anime, while also investing more in related human resources development. Overseas sales of Japanese content reached around ¥5.8 trillion ($37.6 billion) in 2023, surpassing Japan's semiconductor exports. In 2025, global box-office revenue for the anime movie Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Infinity Castle -- Part 1: Akaza Returns topped ¥100 billion, marking the first time a Japanese movie has achieved this milestone.

The pursuit of realistic image synthesis at arbitrary views, given only a single source image, has long been a cornerstone challenge in computer vision and graphics.

Disney advert banned for showing'disturbing' severed body A menacing Disney advert featuring a severed body has been banned by the advertising regulator, which said it was likely to frighten and cause distress to children. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found the entertainment giant had broken its rules with its advert for the Predator Badlands film. Parents complained that the digital poster, which featured a large alien holding aloft the severed body of a smaller, human figure, was inappropriate and disturbing for young children. Disney said the severed body was actually that of a robot, and the fact it had been cut in two further emphasised its non-human nature. The advert, which was seen on the roadside in Giffnock, Glasgow, was promoting the Disney sci-fi film ahead of its release in November.

A 2025 survey in the forests of Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia uncovered several rare and endangered animals. A pig-tailed macaque is caught on camera in a Cambodian forest. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The results of a new camera-trap survey in Southeast Asia is revealing a bevy of hidden biodiversity tucked within the Annamites mountain range . This largely unexplored wildlife hotspot has a forest stretching 683 miles (1,100 kilometers) across the countries of Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia.