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Using examples like Toto’s unexpected semiconductor ceramics business, the article argues that Japanese firms’ extreme diversification stems from a self-reinforcing “J-firm” bundle—lifetime employment, horizontal coordination, and insulated finance—that favors survival, incremental refinement, and redeploying generalist workers across industries.

A ScienceInsider report says NIH and NASA are informally tightening and inconsistently communicating rules that can require advance approval or trigger compliance concerns for U.S. researchers publishing with foreign-affiliated coauthors, leaving grantees confused and worried about chilling international collaboration.

Anthropic’s first update on Project Glasswing reports that Claude Mythos Preview has helped partners and open-source scans uncover and validate thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, shifting the cybersecurity bottleneck from finding bugs to triage, disclosure, and patching, and outlines new tools and next steps to help defenders adapt while Mythos-class models remain unreleased pending stronger safeguards.

ModelRift benchmarks several AI coding tools by having them generate an OpenSCAD Pantheon from reference images, comparing workflow, speed, and output quality while concluding that OpenSCAD and iterative visual feedback work well but geometric judgment and export correctness remain key limits.

Deno 2.8 is a major minor release that adds new CLI subcommands, improves npm-default behavior and Node.js compatibility, and delivers large performance, debugging, workspace, and Web API upgrades across the runtime.

A student recounts the unexpectedly complex, costly 42-day process of shipping a used MacBook from Australia to a Congolese refugee in a Ugandan camp, navigating lithium battery rules, freight delays, customs/TIN hurdles, and chaotic local delivery before it finally arrives working.

The article argues that companies using AI to cut headcount will lose long-term because they shed irreplaceable institutional knowledge, whereas winners use AI to amplify existing teams’ judgement and capacity.