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Ocean monitoring startup Quartermaster raised $14 million to develop technology enabling real-time awareness of the ocean, Earth's largest blind spot.

• •Quartermaster, a startup providing ocean monitoring technology, raised an additional $14 million.
• •The company's technology enables real-time awareness of the area it calls Earth's largest blind spot.
• •It focuses on technical solutions for monitoring and visualizing the marine environment.

A blog post by Glyph Lefkowitz examines what full-fledged AI products should look like.

As concerns grow that AI's rapid evolution could threaten life on Earth, major AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are changing strategies to demonstrate model threats.

• •Concerns are expanding regarding the possibility that AI could end life on Earth of its own volition.
• •Major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are changing their approach to demonstrating the threat level of their models.
• •Competition among companies is intensifying against the backdrop that AI's evolution speed could pose a threat to humanity.

Celsius explained the background of non-public crystal assets, clarifying that AI is not used for asset verification.

• •Users had observed the possibility of AI misjudgments.
• •The company explained that it does not use AI for asset verification.
• •It declined to answer questions about specific verification methods and operational details.

Announced that the use of personal settings in GitHub Copilot's code review feature will expand to all plans.

Japan Post and KDDI began a drone pilot in Suzu, Ishikawa, using post office rooftops as bases for disaster safety checks.

• •A drone port was installed on the Suzu Post Office rooftop on September 28, starting the pilot.
• •It aims to monitor school routes and check resident safety during disasters.
• •The pilot will run until October 4.

Fujitsu explained its strategy to shift IT services from time-and-materials to value-based pricing to improve ROI in the AI era.

• •It is transitioning its business model from traditional time-and-materials billing to value-based pricing.
• •This shift is essential for the AI era and will influence IT vendor strategies.
• •It is a key factor for users to leverage AI effectively and improve ROI.

Truecaller began offering scam intelligence on the open web as a new way to reach users amid growing pressure on its traditional caller ID business in India.

• •Pressure is increasing on the traditional caller ID business in India, Truecaller's largest market.
• •The company is exploring scam intelligence on the open web as a new means to reach users.
• •This move suggests a business model transition beyond the traditional caller ID framework.

The article analyzes how Ricoh and Hitachi address the risk of vendor lock-in in FDE-based AI adoption, offering insights for Japanese companies selecting AI transformation partners.

• •AI adoption utilizing FDEs carries the risk of lock-in to specific vendors.
• •The focus is on how Ricoh and Hitachi are approaching these lock-in concerns.
• •The analysis extracts decision-making hints for Japanese companies choosing AI adoption partners from new services.

Adobe is strengthening integrations with Gemini and Claude to allow users to access its production tools directly from AI chats, thereby streamlining post-generation tasks such as image adjustment and PDF editing.

• •Adobe has strengthened integrations with Gemini and Claude to facilitate easier access to its production tools.
• •Direct access to Adobe tools from AI chats streamlines post-generation editing workflows.
• •The system addresses post-processing challenges, such as image adjustment and PDF editing, that cannot be fully resolved by generative AI alone.