Japan plans to develop a homegrown artificial intelligence model and have 10 million AI-equipped robots operating in more than a dozen sectors by 2040, the government said. The country will reportedly invest around $6 billion in the homemade AI model, which will be developed by Noetra, a consortium of firms including SoftBank and Sony. Countries around the world are seeking to develop sovereign AI models to reduce a potentially dangerous over-reliance on technology from the United States and China. Media reports said that the government would provide up to 1 trillion yen ($6.1 billion) over the next five years, depending on the results of the initiative. The number of companies investing in Noetra is expected to increase to 44 including those in the automotive, electronics and other manufacturing sectors as well as finance and logistics, the Nikkei business daily reported. Noetra will focus in particular on physical AI, with the government also announcing on Tuesday a revised version of its AI robotics strategy.

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries is collaborating with companies including Nvidia to integrate AI and robotics, and last month announced a development hub in Silicon Valley. Kawasaki Heavy Industries is finalizing plans to raise about ¥200 billion ($1.23 billion) by issuing new shares and convertible bonds to fund capital expenditure, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The company will decide on the details of the issuance as soon as this week, the sources said. The shares and convertible bonds will be sold mainly to overseas institutional investors, one of the sources said. The plan to raise funds has not been reported earlier. Kawasaki Heavy said in a statement that it is considering various capital strategies including issuing new shares and bonds but that nothing has been decided.

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The Spark agentic AI assistant is exclusively available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US. Google has started rolling out its new agentic AI assistant, Gemini Spark, to Gemini's app for macOS . When the company launched Spark at its I/O developer conference in May, it explained that the assistant turns Gemini into an active partner that can actually do tasks for you. On Mac computers, for instance, you can ask it to (finally) sort the massive number of the PDFs in your Downloads into specific folders. You'll also be able to get it to do tasks on your Workspace apps using files in your computer, such as asking it to create a spreadsheet with invoices saved on your laptop.

US lifts restrictions on Anthropic's powerful AI models Fable and Mythos The United States government has lifted its restrictions on foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI models, the company has announced. Anthropic said late on Tuesday that it would begin restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from tomorrow after the US Department of Commerce notified the company that it had removed its export controls. In a letter to Anthropic that was widely circulated online, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the company no longer required an export licence as it had agreed to "proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models," to work with the government on standards for upcoming models, and to inform the government of "malicious activity". Anthropic abruptly shut off Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 last month after US President Donald Trump's administration ordered the company to restrict all foreign nationals, including company employees, from accessing the models. Anthropic said at the time that the government had not provided a specific reason for the order beyond unspecified national security concerns, but that it believed that officials were worried about security vulnerabilities in Fable 5. On Friday, the San Francisco-based company said that it had been granted approval to provide the models to US organisations that "operate and defend critical infrastructure", and that it was working with the government to restore general access for the public.

The Commerce Department has lifted their export restrictions. The US government has lifted its export ban on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5, allowing the company to give its customers access to the AI models again. If you'll recall, the government ordered Anthropic to suspend all foreign nationals' access to its newly launched AI models, even if they were in the US and working for the company itself, a couple of weeks ago. In response, Anthropic blocked all access to Mythos and Fable to ensure that it's complying with government demands. Now, the company has announced on X that it will start restoring access to its AI models tomorrow, July 1, after receiving permission from the Department of Commerce.