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SB Intuitions Licenses Small Language Models to Yamagata Municipal Call Centers

SB Intuitions licensed compact Japanese language models to Yamagata municipal call centers, running on-prem inference for resident intake while keeping transcripts on prefecture VLANs and publishing evaluation sheets auditors can request.

Priya Sharma

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Persol Holdings Deploys Shift-Matching LLM for Kansai Warehouse Night Crews

Persol Holdings began piloting a shift-matching large language model for Kansai warehouse night crews, ranking substitute workers against certification tags while keeping human dispatchers as final approvers under revised labor-agency guidance on automated staffing suggestions.

Priya Sharma

Factory procurement office with stacked supplier invoices beside a document scanner and paper stamp pad, fluorescent ceiling light, worn linoleum floor, no logos or readable text.

LayerX Releases Invoice OCR Models for Regional Manufacturer Procurement Desks

LayerX Inc. released Japan-tuned invoice OCR models for regional manufacturers’ procurement desks, shipping line-item confidence scores and qualified-invoice registry cross-checks aimed at mid-market factories still scanning supplier PDFs by hand.

Priya Sharma

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SB Intuitions Bundles Court Precedent Data for In-House Counsel RAG Pilots

SB Intuitions packaged Supreme Court and high-court precedent extracts for retrieval-augmented pilots with three Tokyo in-house legal teams, pairing citation metadata with SoftBank’s enterprise cloud controls.

Priya Sharma

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CyberAgent Tests Opt-Out Tags for Generative NPC Dialogue in Mobile Titles

CyberAgent began tagging generative NPC dialogue packs in two mobile RPG betas so players can disable cloud-written banter, a compliance step ahead of Japan’s mobile gacha transparency push and parental-control store reviews.

Priya Sharma

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