Industry

industrybusiness 2 sources · 6d ago

Two-Minute Meetings Ended Bethesda Careers in Xbox Reset

The Bethesda cuts show that even a studio carrying Skyrim and Fallout is not insulated from a parent company's restructuring, and the union's public protest signals the layoffs are not being accepted quietly.

Game Spark
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 2

GoPro Sells 90% Stake to Starman Optical for $285 Million

The action camera maker survives as a public company, but its future now runs through AI data center hardware, with its optical and imaging IP pointed at defense, government, robotics, and aerospace markets.

GIGAZINE
industry 1 sources · Sep 2

CEDEC2026 Session Walks Through Xross Stars TCG Development

The session showed how milestone management, verbalized 'fun' criteria and deliberately cheap prototypes let a five-person team turn VTuber activities into a TCG that now holds roughly 10th place in domestic market share.

GameBusiness.jp
industry 1 sources · Sep 2

Square Enix Details ATOGiS 3D Generation AI at CEDEC2026

Square Enix built a 3D generation AI trained only on its own assets, pairing a TRELLIS.2-based geometry model with a proprietary staged retopology architecture, to put its rarely reused asset library to work.

GameBusiness.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 2

FTC and 22 States Sue Amazon over Hidden Ad Auction Surcharge

The suit targets the auction mechanism itself, arguing the second-price auction advertisers were told about was not what they got, and the hidden surcharge meant the price was set by Amazon rather than by the market.

GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 2

ChatGPT Ads Hits $1 Billion Annualized in Under 200 Days

Ads have become a working fourth revenue stream for OpenAI alongside subscriptions, enterprise services, and the paid API, and the company is scaling them across regions while insisting the ad system cannot influence answer content.

GIGAZINE
industryannouncement 1 sources · Sep 2

Uravation Launches Corporate AI Training Program With 40 Courses

The 40-course matrix lets companies match training to both the AI tools their information systems departments permit and the specific duties of each job role, addressing a gap where general AI training fails to transfer to workplace practice.

ASCII.jp
industry 1 sources · Sep 2

EEFUL Holdings Wins ICC Kyoto 2026 Catapult Grand Prix

A care-industry succession and M&A firm took the top prize at ICC's highest-tier pitch contest, repeating its 2025 win and putting operational reform of Japan's fragmented elderly care sector in front of the conference's 1,200-plus attendees.

ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 2

Plott Selected for METI IP360 Program to Expand Short Anime Overseas

METI backing gives Plott up to 40 million yen in support to turn a single-year surge in overseas views, roughly 20 times growth, into a repeatable export model that works across multiple short anime titles rather than one hit.

KAI-YOU
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 2

LINE Yahoo Expands Conversation-Based Ad Delivery in Agent i

LINE Yahoo is monetizing its AI agent by serving ads tied to conversation context, following the model OpenAI has built with ChatGPT, and the open question is how much conversation content gets used for targeting.

ASCII.jp
industry 3 sources · Sep 2

Sony Interactive Entertainment Publishes Customer Harassment Policy for Japan

Published a month before the revised labor law makes harassment countermeasures a legal obligation for all Japanese employers, the policy signals SIE is treating customer harassment as a compliance matter, with criminal proceedings explicitly on the table.

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