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Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.

  1. freee's paid AI agents for accounting firms reach 550 adopters in two months

    More than 550 accounting firms had decided to adopt freee's paid AI agents about two months after launch, but the company gives no revenue figure for them or for its new same-day invoice financing.

  2. GO's 2027 driverless taxi target comes with a permits condition

    GO, Waymo and Nihon Kotsu aim for driverless Tokyo taxis in 2027, scaling to about 100 vehicles only after permits are obtained, while GO's app business lifted quarterly operating profit to ¥3.04bn.

  3. VRAIN Solution's inspection AI is adopted by a semiconductor-ceramics maker as half-year sales rise 80%

    VRAIN Solution's AI inspection system has been adopted for a project at a large semiconductor-ceramics maker's domestic site, in a half-year of ¥1.88bn in sales, up 80.0%, and ¥1.31bn of backlog.

  4. Synspective Books 20 Electron Launches With Rocket Lab, Its Biggest Launch Deal

    The satellite company has signed for 20 dedicated Electron launches between 2028 and 2031, and says the deal does not change its December-year guidance.

  5. Datasection's Large Order Turns Effective After $98.55mn of $131.4mn Deposit Lands

    Datasection confirmed a customer paid $98.55 million of a required $131.4 million deposit, meeting the condition that made its previously announced large order contractually effective, with $32.85 million scheduled to be paid within 30 days and the customer's identity and commercial terms not named in the filing.

  6. Quantum Solutions Unwinds $8.3mn GPU Deal After Supplier Warns of 36-Week Delay

    Quantum Solutions canceled its first AI data-center hardware contract days after paying $8.3 million upfront, after the supplier said supply constraints would push delivery out to about 36 weeks, and the refund is still working its way back to the company's account.

  7. GO and Waymo Set 2027 Target for Driverless Tokyo Taxis

    GO Inc. and Alphabet's Waymo have signed a deal to move from supervised test rides to a driverless taxi service in Tokyo, aiming to launch Japan's first Level 4 commercial robotaxi operation in 2027.

  8. Quantum Solutions Pays $8.3mn Down on $61mn GPU Deal, Then Walks Back Supplier's 'In Stock' Claim

    Quantum Solutions has handed over US$8.3mn, 13.6% of a US$61mn GPU-server contract, funded by a dilutive share allotment and crypto-asset sales, and now says its unnamed Kanto-based supplier's earlier 'in stock' claim referred to procurement capacity rather than all the servers already sitting in inventory.

  9. Quantum Solutions Drops Unsigned Rubin Tech GPU Plan for $61mn Kanto Vendor Contract

    Quantum Solutions never signed a contract or paid a yen to Rubin Tech Inc. for its planned GPU servers; it has now committed $60.99mn to an unnamed Kanto vendor to nearly quadruple its server count for an Osaka AI data center, funded partly by a $2.6mn loan from a Hong Kong shareholder that will not disclose its own finances.

  10. pluszero's AI Phone Agent Reaches Four Clients as Profit Climbs 29%

    pluszero says its miraio phone-answering AI is live at four companies, including a securities brokerage, with seven more still in preparation, as nine-month operating profit rose 29% to ¥509mn.

  11. FLIGHT SOLUTIONS Discloses Repeat Order Worth at Least a Tenth of Annual Sales

    FLIGHT SOLUTIONS says a repeat customer's new order for its Incredist Trinity Mini is worth at least 10% of last year's revenue; the exact price is confidential under an agreement with the buyer, and the company says the deal is already baked into its existing guidance.

  12. Quantum Solutions Signs $61mn GPU Server Deal, Leaves Most of It Unfunded

    Quantum Solutions has signed a ¥9.51bn contract for its first GPU server order for an Osaka data center, but only about ¥1.3bn is self-funded; the rest depends on an unfinished shareholder loan and customer prepayment arrangement, and the supplier can walk away if Japanese regulators force disclosure of its identity.

  13. TIER IV Wins METI Backing for Saudi Autonomous-Bus Trial

    METI has selected TIER IV as an indirect recipient of a subsidy covering two-thirds of a requested ¥6.0bn budget to adapt its Autoware software for autonomous buses in Saudi Arabia, but the formal grant decision and final amount are still pending.

  14. enish Board Approves First Solana Purchase, Caps Buy at ¥100mn

    enish's board has approved a ¥100mn Solana purchase, the first slice of a ¥640mn treasury plan, and will now run quarterly mark-to-market gains and losses on the holding directly through earnings.

  15. Sakura Internet Commits ¥26bn to NVIDIA Rubin GPU Servers

    Sakura Internet's board approved a ¥26.0bn purchase of NVIDIA Rubin-generation GPU racks, funded mostly by bank loans, to meet enterprise, research and public-sector demand for domestic AI compute; the earnings hit is still under review.

  16. RACCOON Holdings' Returns Beat Its Cost of Capital by Ten Points, Its Share Price Hasn't Noticed

    RACCOON Holdings posted an 18.7% return on equity against an assumed 8% cost of capital, yet its market value has fallen 82% since 2021, prompting the Tokyo Prime-listed group to rewrite how it explains itself to investors.

  17. Verda Cloud Puts Down $5mn to Lock Up Hokkaido AI Data Center's First 10MW

    Finland's Verda Cloud has put down $5 million for exclusive rights to negotiate a lease over the entire 10MW first phase of Kankyo Friendly's Tomakomai AI data center, with a final contract due within roughly six weeks and an estimated ¥2.4bn to ¥2.5bn in annual fees if it closes.

  18. WIZE's Solana Stash Passes ¥1.0bn as Average Cost Keeps Falling

    WIZE has built a Solana stash worth more than ¥1.0bn at an average cost of ¥15,053 per token, and because it marks the holding to market every quarter, price swings will flow straight into reported profit, an effect the company says it has not yet quantified.

  19. Tose Absorbs an Unpaid Contract Freeze, While Confirming Switch 2 Work

    An overseas client froze a major console project at Tose with no restart date and no payout for the idle staff, prompting the outsourcer to consider penalty clauses in future contracts. Tose also confirms several of its 2026 titles are built for Nintendo's Switch 2.

  20. Synspective selected for eight-market SAR monitoring pilot, with ¥222.9mn subsidy request

    The project would fund two-thirds of eligible costs through March 2028 as the company tests mine-site surveillance and illegal-vessel detection in Latin America and Asia-Pacific, but the final award is still undecided.

  21. Synspective puts 10th StriX satellite into orbit, verification phase begins

    The Japanese company says antenna deployment and test communications succeeded after a Rocket Lab launch, and that the event was already built into its outlook for the year ending December 2026.

  22. Tomakomai AI data-center project commits ¥3.94bn to a 66kV substation

    Environment Friendly Holdings said its subsidiary AI Tech Tomakomai has signed a ¥3.94bn tax-included contract with Yurtec to build a 66kV substation for the Tomakomai AI data-centre site in Hokkaido. Construction starts on July 1, 2026 and completion is scheduled for Dec. 13, 2027, with the company describing the asset as the route from an initial 10MW plan toward a 50MW receiving-capacity target. Funding is supposed to come from internal cash, retargeted equity proceeds, warrant exercises and possibly bank borrowing. The catch is familiar: part of the money depends on future warrant exercises, so the power plan is solidifying faster than the financing certainty.

  23. Intage redraws its reporting lines around Insight and Data Tech

    Starting with first-quarter results for the year ending June 2027, the group will move from three segments to two, replacing its two Marketing Support lines and Business Intelligence with Insight and Data Tech. Management says the change is meant to align research, AI and data-use infrastructure with its 2030 plan, but it has not yet provided a historical financial bridge.

  24. enish sells its entire Bitcoin holding to fund an active treasury shift

    enish sold all 8.063 BTC for ¥79.265 million and said the cash will help fund an active treasury business. Separate Solana-related talks are only that for now, with no launch or tie-up contract decided.