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Japan is making a dramatic bet on artificial intelligence to stave off an economic crisis. The government has set a target of ten million AI-powered workplace robots by two thousand forty — a deadline that lands almost exactly when Japan's human population is projected to shrink by nearly eleven million people. It is less a tech story than a demographic one, and the clock is already running.
Shifting to the retro gaming space, Blaze Entertainment says it is just getting started with its Evercade handheld platform. The company has mapped out a three-to-four-year roadmap and confirmed it has been in conversations with Sega, Bandai Namco, and EA about future collaborations. It also wants to do more work with Rare. For a niche product in a crowded market, that is a quietly ambitious agenda.
And over at Robinhood, the brokerage is making a clear play for active traders by layering in AI agents, perpetual crypto contracts, and weekend trading hours. It is a significant pivot from the app's original casual-investor identity, and it raises real questions about who Robinhood is actually building for now.
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