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Kaito Ogasawara, hand on chin, beside a glowing 3D model of the buildings around Tokyo Station. Text: Japan's national 3D city model. PLATEAU. Supercharged by AI. We analyzed 1,022 buildings with AI!NEWHands-onBUSINESS9 MINWe plugged AI into Japan's 3D city model and X-rayed 1,022 buildings near Tokyo StationJapan's national 3D city model, PLATEAU, now talks to AI. We connected through its MCP server, tallied flood risk for 1,022 buildings near Tokyo Station, and found a medical facility facing a projected 4.1 m flood. Plus: AI that builds a 3D city in hours.

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Kaito Ogasawara pointing at forecast circles over a satellite image of a typhoon near Okinawa. Text: It beat the official US forecast. Typhoon forecasts: AI is starting to win. That circle isn't the storm's sizeNEWFeatureLIFE11 MINAI is starting to beat human typhoon forecasters. That circle isn't the storm's sizeDATA WORLD editor-in-chief Kaito Ogasawara in front of a glowing data sphere with flying documents. Text: Power and text are running out. What AI will fight over next. The answer is sleeping inside your companyNEWColumnBUSINESS10 MINAI is running short of power and text. Its next meal: your company's recordsKaito Ogasawara, surprised, next to sports-drink bottles, an anime character sheet and a DATA WORLD poster made with Lovart. Text: The world's first design agent. Lovart. We put it to work! Made it all with this.NEWHands-onBUSINESS11 MINAfter AI chat comes the AI canvas. We put Lovart, a $2B+ design AI, to work
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Kaito Ogasawara pointing at forecast circles over a satellite image of a typhoon near Okinawa. Text: It beat the official US forecast. Typhoon forecasts: AI is starting to win. That circle isn't the storm's sizeNEWFeatureLIFE11 MINAI is starting to beat human typhoon forecasters. That circle isn't the storm's sizeAI has started to beat official US forecasts of tropical storm tracks. We look at where 1,000-scenario AI forecasting shines and struggles, what Japan's weather agency is doing, and how to read the forecast circle, guided by Typhoon No. 26 and 75 years of data.DATA WORLD editor-in-chief Kaito Ogasawara in front of a glowing data sphere with flying documents. Text: Power and text are running out. What AI will fight over next. The answer is sleeping inside your companyNEWColumnBUSINESS10 MINAI is running short of power and text. Its next meal: your company's recordsBy 2030, data centers are expected to use nearly as much electricity as Japan generates in a year, and public text for AI training is running low. Tracing AI's three hungers (power, text and context), we show why its next race is over company records.
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Kaito Ogasawara, hand on chin, beside a glowing 3D model of the buildings around Tokyo Station. Text: Japan's national 3D city model. PLATEAU. Supercharged by AI. We analyzed 1,022 buildings with AI!NEWHands-onBUSINESS9 MINWe plugged AI into Japan's 3D city model and X-rayed 1,022 buildings near Tokyo StationJapan's national 3D city model, PLATEAU, now talks to AI. We connected through its MCP server, tallied flood risk for 1,022 buildings near Tokyo Station, and found a medical facility facing a projected 4.1 m flood. Plus: AI that builds a 3D city in hours.Kaito Ogasawara, surprised, next to sports-drink bottles, an anime character sheet and a DATA WORLD poster made with Lovart. Text: The world's first design agent. Lovart. We put it to work! Made it all with this.NEWHands-onBUSINESS11 MINAfter AI chat comes the AI canvas. We put Lovart, a $2B+ design AI, to workAn ad with no film shoot, a VTuber character sheet, a movie-style poster: we made them all with Lovart, a design AI that hit 10 million users in five months. Here's what impressed us, plus a report from its official hands-on workshop in Japan.
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