Entities

Shibuya HQ; domestically-led, highly sensitive to geopolitics/tail risk

MIXI's flagship gacha RPG, $11B+ lifetime but losing time and spend as MAU declines

AU/Canada/US online wagering; MIXI holds 66.43% (~$430m, Sept 2025)

MIXI-acquired ($430M, 66.43%), core to overseas expansion

Taiwan's advanced-chip concentration; the top contingency supply chokepoint

H200 China sales taxed at 25%; ACE powers in-game AI

App Store anti-steering / fees at issue

Australia's age-assurance regulator; investigating 5 platforms, fines up to AUD 49.5m

Dominant US prediction market (sports contracts)

Atlas browser, ACP, Visa partnership, FIDO member; core of the agent layer

Major prediction market; 100% of US activity is sports

Domestic 2nm chips, mass production late FY2027, first customer Canon

MIXI's public-racing betting app; Q4 FY2026 revenue +55.8%, 200K+ MAU

US gaming trade body; tallied 2025 betting revenue $16.96B on $166.94B handle

Filed for IPO at $965B / $47B ARR; maker of Claude

Edge AI-agent infrastructure (Workers AI, Agents)

Duopoly leader; rare 'sell' over prediction-market threat

The EU's executive; enforces the DMA, DSA and AI Act and drafts the Digital Fairness Act and Tech Sovereignty Package — the centre of regulation.

MIXI's family-photo app; ~40% overseas, storage/ad dependent

Family photo/video app with 30M users (40% overseas, 20% N.America), 7 languages/175 countries

MIXI's global growth engine (~40% overseas, 175 countries)

~₹10,371cr sovereign-AI program

MIXI's invite-only new SNS (Dec 2024, 1.2M in week one); a candidate owned attention graph

Measurement source behind State of Mobile/AI time and spend data

Fined HoYoverse $20M; precedent for gacha/COPPA enforcement

Oversees the new digital-competition regime; app marketplaces top priority

Google's agent-to-agent coordination standard; moved to Linux Foundation, v1.0

PointsBet group CEO (from February 2026), previously its Australia CEO; charged with executing the TIPSTAR-style 'social betting' strategy.

~30% fees and external-payment rulings in flux

US/UK/AU security pact; Pillar 2 AI-enabled UUV co-dev (field 2027)

iGaming platform PointsBet Canada adopted for its online casino in April 2026

Moved H200-class China exports to case-by-case review

DPDP enforcement and breach-oversight body

30% refundable offset on qualifying Australian game-dev spend (A$500k min, A$20m/yr company cap); Division 378, Arts-Minister certified.

The gatekeeper regime; opened app-store external payments and fined Apple €500m — directly reshaping app monetisation.

India's largest RMG operator; lost ~95% revenue after the 2025 ban, pivoting to F2P/entertainment — the vacuum Strike World targets

Major RMG players forced to restructure/lay off after the ban

De facto standard for voice/speech generation; USD 11B valuation, ~USD 330M ARR (end-2025), Spotify partnership; faces voice/consent regulation.

Lead plaintiff winning app-store opening in US/Australia; runs Epic Games Store in EU and Japan

The world's first comprehensive AI law; prohibited practices from Feb 2025, GPAI from Aug 2025, high-risk deferred to Dec 2027.

Loot-box and dark-pattern rules heading to a 2026 proposal

Standards body for passkeys (~5B in use) and agent authentication

Scaled 55→217 staff via DGTO; exports via Bluey IP

Play Store settlement and search-monopoly remedy

World model generating controllable 3D worlds from text

HoYoverse; Genshin/Honkai Star Rail/ZZZ, leading banner-gacha publisher

National program backing chip fabs and supply-chain localization

Enterprise NPC-dialogue middleware for games

Ex-ante app-store rules forcing alternative billing on Apple/Google

India's merged Disney+JioStar OTT; 500M+ monthly users, world's #2 streamer

AU rare-earth major; 50% of heavy REE oxides + 5,000t/yr NdPr to Japan, 12-yr deal to 2038

Enacted the 2025 Online Gaming Act banning RMG

Holds sports as its second pillar after digital entertainment — owning Chiba Jets and FC Tokyo, running TIPSTAR/public-competition betting, and operating PointsBet (Australia/Canada).

Anthropic's tool/data-connectivity standard; ~97M monthly SDK downloads

MIXI's flagship game; dependent on app-store IAP

325M subscribers; re-engineering revenue per minute via ad-supported tiers

Leads the TikTok US JV (15%), controlling US infrastructure and governance of the #1 attention app

Normalizing Taiwan blockade drills (Justice Mission 2025)

Maker of the 'Comet' AI browser; leads agentic traffic

Melbourne-based, one of Australia's largest listed game developers.

US/Japan/Australia/India $20bn critical-minerals framework (May 2026)

Roblox Corp; 132M DAU in Q1 2026, hub of US Gen-Alpha demand

Japan's top AI unicorn; strategic partnership with Google

Indian AI unicorn valued at $1.5bn

Australian skilled visa; salary floor rises July 2026

Market leader in Australian online wagering (~45% share); a key PointsBet rival.

Shipped Gemini-powered AI NPC 'Chatty Slimey' in DQX

Global Monster Strike; India soft-launch Feb 19, full Apr 16 2026, pass/ad monetization

Co-maintains ACP with OpenAI; co-authored the MPP with Tempo

One of India's largest innovation campuses, hosting 1,800+ startups

Australia's second-largest online wagering operator (~25% share).

#1 worldwide in downloads, IAP and total time in 2025; biggest captor of disposable time

US-controlled JV for TikTok's US ops; Oracle et al. 45%, ~$14bn valuation

ASX-listed family-album app; direct rival to FamilyAlbum ($7.99/mo)

India's Digital Public Infrastructure for payments; 20bn+ tx/month, extending into credit

Victoria's screen/games agency; offers up to 15% rebate (for Australian companies) on games/VFX.

Administers rare-earth/dual-use export controls on Japan

Primary BCP scenario; 60-90% 30-year probability, ¥292tn worst case

MIXI's invite-only family photo sharing; 30M global, 40%+ overseas, layered Premium tiers

Eruption tail risk; 2-10cm downtown ashfall, 2-week supply cutoff scenario

Economic security, semiconductors, energy policy

Active Cyber Defense Act, effective Oct 2026; reporting duties & pre-emptive defense

Opens Nov 1 2026; unified disaster command (352 staff)

70% 30-year; capital-function loss risk, ~¥95tn loss

PM; Taiwan remark sparked the China-Japan crisis, central to tensions

Home humanoid NEO on pre-order at $20k / $499/month; targets US homes with soft design and human-assisted learning[^s7].

Premier HCI/ML venues setting the frontier on dark patterns, reasoning and world models

Australian Communications and Media Authority; studies/oversees AI use in gambling

Agent-payment protocols: ACP (OpenAI x Stripe) and AP2 (Google, Mandate-based)

SKAdNetwork successor; supports third-party stores and re-engagement

Privacy attribution frameworks driving measurement fragmentation

Commercially-safe image/video generation with licensed-only training data and IP indemnity; a legal-safety choice for game assets.

Continental free-trade area covering 1.4bn; 25 countries finalized tariff schedules

Continental body of 55 member states; drives AfCFTA and the digital-trade protocol

Google's agent-payments standard; authorization via signed mandates

Linux Foundation governance body for agent standards (hosts MCP/A2A)

OpenAI+Stripe standard for agent-mediated purchases

Standard for AI-agent discovery & checkout; Target, Walmart and others integrate

Maker of the bipedal logistics robot Digit; an early Jetson Thor adopter[^s2].

Alberta's gambling regulator; PointsBet is one of 28 approved operators (opens 13 Jul 2026)

~$120M run-rate in H2 2025; market sized at $36.8B (Grand View, 2025) / $49.5B (Fortune, 2026)

Open 251B-token corpus across 22 languages and the IndicVoices speech stack; source of multilingual data and talent

Australian multi-currency payments unicorn; $12B valuation, $1.5B ARR

Sovereign AI compute infrastructure backing Japanese LLMs (Swallow, PLaMo)

AI virtual influencer; brand deals up to €10k/month

Penalty-free, pro-innovation framework aiming to make Japan the most AI-friendly nation.

Industry body publishing the Anime Industry Report; reported the ¥3.84tn 2024 market (56% overseas) and led the generative-AI copyright joint statement.

Russia-linked ransomware group that halted US Change Healthcare

Germany's far-right party; risen to ~26% and first place in polls, adding uncertainty to the Merz government and EU regulatory continuity.

Riley Testut's alt-store; free via Epic MegaGrant covering the CTF; live in EU and Japan

1.92GW Susquehanna 17-yr PPA via Talen

Holds ~79.7% of US retail media advertising

Cloud leader (~30%), core infra dependency

Emblem of cloud-concentration risk exposed by the us-east-1 outage

Issued Jan 2026 children's digital-ecosystem policy; reframes toward platform-design accountability

Anime theatrical-distribution JV established March 2026; bundles Sony's theatrical/marketing infrastructure with KADOKAWA's publishing IP to consolidate distribution control.

Sony's production, financing and licensing arm involved in hits like Demon Slayer; vertically integrating distribution and production via Animec and HAYATE.

Prime Minister; won a landslide second term in 2025 and is driving online-safety, gambling and climate policy.

Advances mechanistic interpretability (circuit tracing) for trustworthy, safe AI

Voice-driven AI-native companion game (from an ex-HoYoverse founder)

No.2 VTuber agency (~35%); Japan-origin reach channel

Other half of the VTuber duo; record FY2026 revenue ¥55.7B (+29.9%) / operating profit ¥20.2B

De facto open table format; v3 GA and v4 in progress

US state laws mandating age verification and parental consent for minors at the app-store layer

Primary distribution/billing gatekeeper; fee structure shifting under regulation and litigation

Apple took exclusive US F1 rights from 2026 at ~$140-150m a year; emblematic of Liberty Media's US growth strategy and rights inflation.

Core App Store paid-search channel; multiplies ad slots from March 2026 (Japan first)

Underpins iOS measurement; under antitrust challenge (France fine, Germany probe)

Petitioning the Supreme Court over external-payment fees in Apple v Epic; shapes the D2C billing surface

US external-payment court rulings shaping store-fee unit economics for gacha/F2P

On-device AI stacks standardizing local inference

Spatial-computing headsets; Vision Pro sales slumped while Quest holds ~80% of VR

US humanoid company; raised $520M at $5B (incl. Google) in Feb 2026, piloting with Mercedes-Benz and GXO[^s8].

Veteran Android-store operator running an iOS alternative marketplace in the EU

Embark/Nexon; new-IP extraction shooter, 16M+ units in six months

Influencer disclosure guidelines; fines up to ₹10-50 lakh for violations

Australian team SaaS; ships the 'Rovo' AI agent

Australia's financial-intelligence and AML regulator; after Crown (A$450m) and SkyCity (A$67m), its Entain suit and Tabcorp probe are driving up sector AML costs.

AU$1.2bn critical-minerals reserve makes Australia an allied supply node

A A$112.7m reform package banning betting ads during live sport broadcasts (from Jan 2027), celebrity endorsements and stadium signage.

Covers AI/software dev; expanded from FY2028

World-first age ban; fines up to AUD 49.5m

Australia's AI safety watchdog operating from early 2026; in the SARA 2025 survey ~90% of Australians said it would make them trust AI more.

Tracks discretionary-spend contraction via household spending and living-cost indexes

Mandated loot-box / gambling-content classifications

Communications/media regulator; enforces gambling-advertising rules and online wagering services.

Driving the gambling-ad ban effective Jan 2027

Announced a gambling-advertising reform package in April 2026 (bans on live-broadcast/stadium/celebrity ads, BetStop strengthening, A$112.7m harm reduction, effective January 2027).

Japan's pro basketball league; home of Chiba Jets and stage for the spectator business

Japan's pro basketball league; from 2026-27 shifts to a top-tier PREMIER with membership criteria of ¥1.2bn revenue, 4,000 average attendance and a 5,000-seat arena.

Japan basketball's top tier from 2026-27; entry requires ¥1.2bn revenue, 4,000 avg attendance and a 5,000-seat arena, raising the revenue ceiling.

India parenting community/commerce; BabyChakra 2M families, Mylo 10M parents

Leads yen-carry unwind and a firmer yen via the hike to 1.0%

US parental-monitoring app; 6M parents, AI-scans 29 harmful themes in messages/images

Japan's addiction-countermeasures law; bans illegal online-gambling ads, suspends new online casinos and drives operators out of payment networks (live Sep 2025).

Krafton; 100M+ India downloads after return, paying users +17% in Q1

BC Lottery Corporation's PlayNow, BC's only legal online casino; a regulated iGaming opening in BC would be PointsBet's new-market opportunity

Always-on recording/summarizing ambient AI wearables (acquired by big tech in 2025)

12-person studio; Mixtape (OpenCritic 94), differentiated with no AI assets

India's most-funded startup and tech hub; water-stressed zone

Rival bidder for PointsBet; retains a 19.9% minority stake post-takeover

ACMA-run national self-exclusion register (live Aug 2023) spanning all licensed wagering services; 3-month-to-lifetime exclusion, barring bets, accounts and marketing to registrants.

Australia's national self-exclusion register (BetStop, ~59,830 cumulative) and the regulator ACMA; enforce the 2027 ad reform and illegal-site blocking (1,700+ sites).

India's state-funded sovereign AI; 22-language generative/reasoning models (Param2), trillion-parameter LLM

Maker of FLUX.2 Pro; photorealistic and API-first, easy to embed in mass-production pipelines.

Hyundai-owned; shipping electric Atlas to Hyundai's Georgia plant, won Best Robot at CES 2026[^s10].

Pushes non-dollar settlement at the New Delhi summit

ByteDance's video model topping the Artificial Analysis video arena; emblematic of the rise of Chinese players.

Research firm; reported in April 2026 that 93% of Web3 games are effectively dead and funding inflows fell 99% from $1.6bn to $18m a quarter.

US-side frontier-AI safety benchmark

State laws mandating companion-AI safety and minor protection

Australian design SaaS; ~$3.3B annualized revenue (approaching $4B ARR), $42B valuation

Australian design-AI platform (~USD 42B); integrated visual generation via Leonardo.ai (the Phoenix model).

Refuses AI-generated assets in game content; AI for workflow only

Short-video editing app; new billion-dollar app in 2025, also folded into the TikTok US JV

US P2P app; ~59M monthly users, expanding into finance

100,000km+ independent fiber network; rolling out AI data centers with Nvidia

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism; entered its definitive period in January 2026, charging for embedded emissions in steel, aluminium and other imports.

Regulates prediction-market event contracts

US case where a back-end clearing house's outage paralyzed an industry (~USD2.46bn)

AI-character chat app with ~20M global MAU and 200M+ monthly visits

MIXI's public-racing lottery product; domestic betting growth line alongside TIPSTAR (+40.7%)

Flagship gen-AI app; became a billion-dollar app in 2025, a new attention sink

A new everyday app; 900M weekly users (Feb 2026)

MIXI-group basketball/football clubs monetizing tickets, sponsorship and media; Chiba Jets enter B.LEAGUE PREMIER.

MIXI-group B.LEAGUE club; 2024-25 season revenue ¥5.17B, first club to top ¥5B

Sponsor-free STEM route competing for AI talent

One of Japan's largest startup hubs in Toranomon (325+ firms)

Compliance-oriented stablecoin issuer (USDC, ~$78bn); also the settlement currency for prediction markets (Polymarket) and growing supply.

Issued alerts on the npm supply-chain compromise (Shai-Hulud)

Sandfall Interactive; premium single-player, 8M units and GOTY in a year

US digital-asset market-structure bill (House-passed July 2025, sent to Senate); splits oversight between the CFTC (commodities) and SEC (securities).

The two dominant AI-native dev stacks (terminal-first / IDE-first)

US federal regulator; published a 267-page proposed prediction-market rule in June 2026 allowing most sports contracts but banning manipulation-prone ones.

Found Apple's App Store abuses market power; final hearing 21 May 2026

US ad-growth axis; CTV ~$37.95bn in 2026, retail the largest CTV category

Operates Crane Clean Energy Center (ex-TMI Unit 1)

Oversees Japan's stealth-marketing rules; disclosure/monitoring duties on advertisers

Low-latency LLM NPCs with an Actions feature that triggers in-game behavior, not just dialogue

National policy targeting a ¥20tn overseas content market by 2033; drives a labor-monitoring body, anti-piracy and AI-copyright responses.

Framework for climate finance and the energy transition

Apple's new fee replacing the CTF; 5% on alternative-store transactions in Japan

Japanese industry body; estimates illegal offshore sports betting at ~¥6.5tn/yr (2024) and proposes a special-law model toward legalization.

Largest VTuber agency (~55% share); major brand-collab vehicle

Top VTuber agency; FY2025 revenue ¥43.4B, 520k annual live attendees; FY2026 ~¥49.3B with lower profit

Sony's leading global anime-streaming service with 21m paying subscribers, 4.4bn monthly minutes in the US; expanding via Anime Nights theatrical and into Taiwan/South Korea.

US startup selling AI plush toys like Grok (from $99) as screen-time-alternative companions for children[^s19].

Imposes vulnerability reporting and security requirements on products with digital elements

Blockchain dapp analytics; reports gaming as Web3's largest category (~4.5-5m daily wallets, ~28% of Web3 activity, over half on mobile).

University-research forum on interpretability, control and adversarial robustness (announced Jun 2026)

India's data-protection enforcer covering child data and localization

Oversees India's DPDP Act and Rules

Holds Japanese J.League rights to 2033 (original 2017-26 deal ~¥210bn over 10 years); a leading global sports-streaming player.

Sports NFT marketplace built by MIXI and DAZN on Flow (2022); collects moments from official J.League footage.

Chinese open-model provider; efficiency-focused and low-cost, easing single-vendor dependence.

Key source for Japan ad-spend data; digital now a majority of total ad spend

The benchmark for Japan ad spend; 2025 total ¥8.06tn with internet ads ¥4.05tn, over half (50.2%) for the first time.

Built the government generative-AI platform 'GENAI' in-house; drives digital sovereignty / gov DX

Consumer-protection law expected Q4 2026; targets loot boxes, gacha, dark patterns, addictive design and pay-to-win.

The online-safety regime; its minor-protection guidelines and age-verification push govern the design of gaming/social products.

Platform powering community-driven retention and growth

India's data-protection law; full compliance by 2027

Phased personal-data-protection framework

70%+ of global cobalt supply; designated lithium (Manono) strategic

India's largest real-money gaming firm; lost ~95% of revenue to the ban with 100+ exits

Indian fantasy giant ($8B); halted money formats after RMG ban

Melbourne-based EA mobile-games studio; one of the anchors of the Australian games hub.

West African bloc and the breakaway Sahel three-state alliance; emblem of fragmentation

Among North Africa's largest; Cairo is a funding-heavy startup hub

Agreed to a $55B take-private by the PIF consortium in 2025 — largest LBO ever

Major Australian operator; sued by AUSTRAC for AML/CTF breaches with a Federal Court trial from 30 November 2026, and signed an enforceable undertaking over 500+ BetStop breaches.

Major Australian online-wagering player behind Ladbrokes and Neds; another key PointsBet rival.

Creator Economy 2.0 enables direct island sales and high payout share

iOS alternative store; launched in EU (Aug 2024) and Japan (Jan 2026)

US litigation over the anti-steering ban and the cap on external-link fees; the off-app fee level remains judicially unsettled.

Australia's independent online-safety regulator enforcing the Online Safety Act and the under-16 social-media rules.

Fastest-growing economy (~9%); a large ~130m-person under-tapped market

Minor-protection guidelines plus a privacy-preserving age-verification app

Cross-border AI transparency/high-risk duties ramp from Aug 2026

Mandates labeling of AI-generated content/deepfakes (Aug 2026)

European Commission consumer-protection bill targeting addictive design, dark patterns and minor protection

Common EU digital identity due in 2026; a trusted means of age verification and a technical backbone for minor protection.

Applied Jan 2025; oversight of ICT third parties and concentration-risk remediation

The eurozone central bank; in June 2026 it hiked for the first time in three years, taking the deposit facility rate to 2.25%.

Leads ex-ante app-store rules; fined Apple €500m

The EU's legislature; its IMCO committee recommended comprehensive loot-box restrictions in late 2025, pushing minor/consumer protection.

Federal AI framework, preempts state law

MIXI's family album; 30M+ users across 175 countries

Acquired PointsBet's US business in 2023 — the reason MIXI carries no US gambling exposure

Half of the US sports-betting duopoly

The US sportsbook duopoly (~44% and ~34% share); both are integrating prediction markets (FanDuel Predicts, DraftKings Predictions) into their apps.

US sports-betting leaders (FanDuel 44%, DraftKings 34%) extending into prediction/games fusion via FanDuel Predicts and similar.

Japan's largest industrial-robot maker; partnered with NVIDIA in March 2026 to embed Jetson Thor in controllers, pivoting to Physical AI[^s16].

J.League club operator MIXI made a subsidiary in 2022 (51.3% voting)

MIXI-owned J.League club; its calendar, seasonal ticketing and cashflow cycle change with the 2026-27 autumn-spring shift.

Holding rates and hawkish under new Chair Warsh

Anchors the global cost of capital; hawkish under new chair

Projects ~$8.9bn for the 2026 World Cup (US/Canada/Mexico) and ~$13bn for the 2023-26 cycle; introduced first-ever dynamic pricing, now probed by US state authorities.

$20,000-class home humanoid robots (embodied AI)

US humanoid company; real work at BMW Spartanburg, BotQ plant tooled for 12,000/year (one robot/hour as of June 2026)[^s9].

Australian green-AI data-center firm building the 100% liquid-cooled Project Southgate on Tasmania's renewables.

India's largest baby e-commerce; IPO Aug 2024 (~$2.9bn at offer, FY24 revenue ₹65.75bn)

Contract manufacturer scaling iPhone production under PLI

Garena; among world's most-downloaded in Feb 2026 despite ban, MAX sustains demand

June 2025 SCOTUS ruling upholding age verification 6-3; legal foundation for state laws

Enforces the amended COPPA Rule

US Federal Trade Commission; tougher ad-disclosure enforcement + COPPA age-verification policy

US federal children's-privacy rule; adds biometric identifiers to PII and bars indefinite retention (in force Jun 2025)

Its annual State of the Game Industry survey tracks AI sentiment and adoption

Japanese startup for live-with-a-character devices, preparing Gatebox 3

The de facto global standard for personal-data protection; the precedent for European data norms propagating into worldwide product design.

AI assistant; 900M MAU (May 2026), forecast 1B by Q3 2026

On-device AI running locally; shifts inference to the edge

Japan's generative-AI foundation-model development program funding models like Tanuki

METI/NEDO program backing domestic generative AI with compute and subsidies; Rakuten AI 3.0 is a product.

METI's contest-style program (~JPY 1B in reward and compute) on essential-worker workflow reform and student talent, using AIST's ABCI 3.0 compute.

US federal payment-stablecoin law (signed 18 July 2025); sets reserve, redemption and issuer-licensing (PPSI) rules and classifies them as neither securities nor commodities.

Sports-data leader (NYSE: GENI); closed its ~$1.2bn Legend acquisition in May 2026 and frames legalization in Japan and the US as a medium-term growth driver.

Sports-data majors fusing broadcast/live data with betting; provide official NFL data (to 2030), NBA League Pass integration and BetVision.

HoYoverse; $54-66M/month in 2026, top-tier gacha

Ghana a mature betting market; Morocco a stable-currency North-African hub

AI coding assistant; moved to usage-based billing in June 2026

Universal opt-out signal under US state privacy laws; 12 states require honoring it

Delivers on-device AI via Gemini Nano, ML Kit GenAI and AICore; drives A2A and AP2; broke ground on a $15B AI hub in Vizag, India

Dominant Android store; opened US to alternative billing and third-party stores

Provider of Gemini 3.1 Pro (GPQA Diamond 94.3%); MIXI rolled out Google Agentspace company-wide.

Family of VLA (vision-language-action) models; 1.5 + ER 1.5 + On-Device (network-independent, sub-10ms) for embodied reasoning and on-site execution[^s3][^s4].

India's #2 UPI app; ~35% of volume

De facto photo standard; 1.5B MAU, 9tn items, AI via Gemini

From Apr 2026 repurposes private family photos as AI search/inference/image-gen input; privacy controversy

Largest competing bundle combining cloud photos and AI (5TB + Gemini at $19.99/mo)

Dominant AI-automated ad buying (~71% adoption), auto-generates creative

Safe all-rounder video model with 48kHz synchronized dialogue and 4K, USD 0.15/sec fast mode; useful for game trailers/cutscenes.

Microfun; world's most lucrative merge game, $93M in April

Primary source for continental mobile-economy and mobile-money data

US skilled-worker visa; a $100K fee was added in 2025, found unlawful by a district court and now on appeal

Brisbane studio behind Fruit Ninja; shipped Bluey's Quest across platforms

Production JV founded by Aniplex and Crunchyroll in 2025; made studio Lay-duce a wholly owned subsidiary in April 2026, internalizing production capacity.

Major Indian RMG operator (A23 Rummy); cut staff from 606 to 178 under the PROGA ban. Sector-wide asset writedowns reached ~₹70bn.

Representative Director, President & CEO (publicly disclosed role only)

VTuber/digital-human agencies holding 38%/30% market share

Tencent; 2025 #1-tier grosser, 98% from Chinese iOS

Source of AI/data-center power-demand projections

Benchmark for mineral-supply concentration and Australia's edge

Operator of Ontario's regulated iGaming market; C$1.13B operator revenue in Q1 2026, North America's fastest-growing

Australia's games industry body; publishes workforce/employment data via the annual AGDS survey

Industry body founded by Nazara, SuperGaming and peers

Residence-status authority running J-Skip/J-Find

Game-focused Layer-2; gaming NFTs led by Gods Unchained generated $135m in trading volume after the zkEVM move. The IMX token is down ~98% from its peak.

~$1.22bn in 2025, third worldwide in viewership penetration (41%); Crunchyroll drives ~200% subscriber growth via 900+ titles, 180+ dubs and local pricing. MIXI's STRIKE WORLD target.

Ex-ante, DMA-style bill targeting firms with >$30bn revenue and >10m local users

India's personal data protection regime; enforced by the Data Protection Board of India

Verifiable parental consent for under-18s; bans behavioural ad targeting of children; full force May 2027

AI/data offshore talent hub with 2,117 global capability centers, 2.36M professionals and a $98.4B market

8.45B downloads, ~488M players but ~$400M IAP; RMG ban defines structure

Bans real-money gaming, its ads and payments; reshapes market to F2P + ads

Made-in-India third-party Android store; 100m+ devices, 12 languages, zero commission on external payments

India-built battle royale by SuperGaming, launched worldwide 2024

Meta's short video; absorbed TikTok demand in India, high reach in AU

Australia's games-industry body; reported A$608.5m local dev revenue and ~2,443 jobs in FY25.

Benchmark for global growth/inflation outlook and war risk

Sets annual threat priorities via the '10 Major Threats' (ransomware #1)

Japan's cloud security-assessment program for government information systems

International BCMS standard, growing fastest in Asia-Pacific

Japan's special-highly-skilled and future-creation talent visas (2023)

Japan's pro football league; switches to a European-style autumn-spring calendar from 2026-27, running a transitional 100 Year Vision League.

Japan's first basic AI law; penalty-free and promotion-oriented (full effect Sept 2025)

Vehicle for Japan's USD550bn US-bound investment pledge

Enforces stealth-marketing rule; orders against major firms for missing PR labels

Published the AI Human Resource Development Report; notes 8:1 demand-supply for LLM/MLOps experience

Drives health/nursing-care data linkage; projects a ~570k care-worker shortfall by 2040

Projects a ~430K digital-professional shortage in Tokyo by 2026

100,000+-pair birth cohort; an evidence base on child development

Japan's financial regulator; drives PSA stablecoin rules, crypto reclassification under the FIEA and mandatory exchange liability reserves.

~$11B IAP in 2025, centered on collection/gacha demand

Japan's public betting market (horse, keirin, boat, auto racing); FY2025 set records across the board (JRA ¥3.49tn; keirin above ¥1.5tn for the first time in 28 years). Net voting is the growth engine.

Enforces Japan's Smartphone Software Competition Act

Sets self-regulatory gacha odds-disclosure and minor spend-cap guidelines

Leads generative-agent research simulating 1,052 real individuals

Issuer of Japan's first FSA-approved yen-pegged stablecoin (Type II fund-transfer provider); 1 JPYC = ¥1, backed by bank deposits and JGBs, launched October 2025.

Major publishers and IP holders central to production committees and source supply. Sony became KADOKAWA's top shareholder (~10%) in 2025, partnering on distribution via Animec.

First US corporate SMR fleet deal with Google (500MW)

Leading prediction-market exchanges; Kalshi runs at a ~$1.5bn revenue run rate and a $22bn valuation (March 2026, ~2x its prior $11bn round), with most volume in sports contracts — a substitute betting surface.

Home of M-Pesa; Gambling Control Act 2025, Microsoft/G42 data-center investment

New law repealing the 1966 act and re-regulating betting

2026 Fed Chair, price-stability focused

Century Games; ~$812M in first year after Feb 2025 launch, emblem of 4X mass-production

Senior Executive Officer & CFO; joined the board June 2025 (publicly disclosed role only)

MIXI President/CEO; driving the push to lead social betting across JP/AU/Canada (Nov 2025)

MIXI President and CEO; drove the PointsBet acquisition, said the Canadian market will expand 'rapidly', and is steering the North American 'social betting' push.

Krafton; BGMI publisher, returned to India via compliance

Investing $200M in India; paying users +27% after re-approval

Invested $200M+ in India, $50M+/yr to grow local studios & esports

Founded by Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal; a domestic LLM covering 22 Indian languages.

Full-stack sovereign AI cloud; plans domestic AI chips in 2026

India's sovereign AI (first AI unicorn / MyJio AI advisor for 600M users)

Kuaishou's (China) video model with 4K/60fps/15s clips, multilingual lip-sync and ~USD 0.10/sec value-to-quality.

India audio/microdrama; $85M raised 2025 at ~$500M, Krafton-backed, 70%+ AI-made

~10,000-seat arena co-developed with Mitsui Fudosan; Chiba Jets' new home

Multipurpose Funabashi arena (~11,000, completed 2024) developed by Mitsui Fudosan x MIXI; Chiba Jets' year-round home venue.

FunFly; flagship 4X-survival at $1.57B-$2.1B in 2025

Researcher on loot-box/gacha compliance and gambling policy

Owner of F1; accelerating growth via three US races and higher rights fees, pursuing multi-platform tie-ins with Apple, Netflix and IMAX.

Leading US family-safety tech; ~95.8M MAU, ~$489.5M revenue, acquired Tile for $205M

MIXI-backed Indian cricket-game studio; raised $11m April 2026

Aristocrat/Product Madness; social-casino title topping Australian charts

Leading AI influencers partnering Prada, Samsung, Shinhan Life

Used by ~77% of Japanese; anchors domestic disposable time

Japan's messaging / super-app; ~98M MAU (~80% of population)

Neutral standards body hosting MCP, A2A, goose and AGENTS.md (formed Dec 2025)

India gaming/interactive-media VC; source of market-size data

Rolled out the 'Agent i' AI agent to 100M+ users

Australian rare-earths producer; one of the priority Japan-AU critical-minerals projects.

Publishes the annual Global Talent Shortage Survey; named AI skills hardest to hire

Former ECB president; his 2024 competitiveness report flagged the innovation gap with the US and a ~€1.2tn annual investment need.

NetEase x Marvel; hero shooter with 40M+ players

$2M games-specific coworking hub run by the Cult of the Lamb studio

Studio behind Cult of the Lamb; runs MASS, Melbourne's dedicated games-developer coworking hub

Offers 'Agent Pay' payments for AI agents

Partnership between toy giant Mattel and OpenAI to build AI toys, marrying global IP with conversational AI to mass-produce in-home AI characters[^s19].

Non-SWIFT cross-border settlement rails

Notified the final DPDP Rules in Nov 2025; consulting on a 12-month accelerated deadline

Owns DPDP, IT Rules and IndiaAI

India's regulator/enforcer; MeitY has blocked 8,400+ illegal betting sites and apps and the ED charged 14 parties in October 2025 over a UAE-linked laundering network — yet offshore betting use has risen instead.

Blanket ban on all online real-money games (enforced May 1, 2026); the OGAI classifies games into money/social/esports

Japan's C2C marketplace; 20M+ users, cross-border GMV up 15x

Japanese firms recruiting at India's IIT campuses

AI ad platform; Andromeda held conversions but lifted CPMs 20%+

Paid creators ~$3B in 2025, $1B+ invested in India, began USDC payouts in 2026

AI smart glasses; 7M+ sold in 2025, with the heads-up Meta Ray-Ban Display ($800) added[^s17][^s18].

AI smart glasses (7M+ sold in 2025), core of glasses-native experiences

Forecasts Japan's IT-talent gap (up to 800K by 2030; up to 3.39M AI/robotics by 2040) and gen-AI market growth

Japan's first IR (casino) opening ~2030, reshaping domestic gambling-policy terrain

Japan's first IR casino, targeted 2030 opening

Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation; requires CASP authorisation with the transition ending 1 July 2026, governing web3/crypto features.

The EU's comprehensive crypto regime; 1:1 reserves and EU-issuer requirement for stablecoins, transition ending July 2026; led to USDT delisting in-region.

Opened India's first ATMP plant (Sanand, Gujarat)

Restarting Three Mile Island 835MW on 20-yr PPA (~$1.6B restart)

Pledged ~$10B for Japan's AI/cloud base, lifting AI-talent demand

Cloud #2, high AI-driven growth; $80B order backlog from power limits

World #3 post-Activision; Game Pass ~35–37M subscribers

Image generation strong on artistic/stylized work (v8, 5x faster than v6); suited to concept art.

Behavioral-analytics AI vendor; partnered with Tabcorp as a 'virtual psychologist' to detect problem gamblers in real time — a responsible-gambling AI benchmark.

Backs regional studios with ₹500 crore; esports given national status

$90bn initiative to electrify 300m people by 2030

European open-model provider (Apache 2.0); a permissively licensed option for commercial use.

NSF AI-and-fundamental-physics institute; public AI-for-science hub (renewed 5 years in 2026)

Supplier of 11 upgraded Mogami-class frigates (~A$10bn / ~US$6.5bn) to the RAN — core of Japan-AU defence cooperation.

Real-estate major that co-developed LaLa arena TOKYO-BAY

MIXI's Australian subsidiary that led the ~A$430m PointsBet acquisition.

Family photo-sharing app with 25M users across 175 countries

India-focused CVC (US$50M) formed 2023, investing in mobile gaming / 2C

$50m CVC set up Aug 2023; invests in India entertainment/consumer startups

New SNS launched Dec 2024, ~1.5M users (as of 2025)

TSE Prime-listed company operating Digital Entertainment, Sports, Lifestyle and Investment segments

Japan's smartphone law (full effect Dec 2025)

Japan's ex-ante law designating Apple/Google/iTunes K.K. and mandating alternative billing, third-party stores and an anti-steering ban (live Dec 2025).

Scopely; $1.36B in 2025, a social casual atop US/AU charts

MIXI's flagship mobile game; FY2026 sales -13.1%, mature, the anchor for revenue diversification

MIXI's flagship IP. Collaborates with Monogatari, Persona 5, Haruhi etc., with anime on Prime Video in 123 countries — the core of a global IP cycle.

MIXI's flagship game; drives buzz and reactivation through IP collaborations

MIXI's D2C billing surface that bypasses store fees; grew steadily in its first year

Pan-African mobile-money majors providing broad payment coverage

Leading hubs where data-center investment concentrates

Low-priced ($3.99/mo) family-album competitor app

Stable-majority ruling party; pairs Digital India with strong regulatory intervention

Published December 2025; no dedicated AI Act, relying on voluntary guidance (e.g., AI Adopt Program).

Leads the offshore online-casino crackdown and site-blocking effort

Korean vertical-scroll webtoon leaders; with Line Webtoon/Tapas they held ~67.5% of global revenue in 2025, driving a generational shift in comic consumption.

From 2025-26 holds an 11-year $76bn rights package with Disney/NBCU/Amazon (+164%); the emblem of rights inflation.

Leading the push to raise prediction-market age to 21

Enforces the NDPA; fined Meta $220m

Chinese domestic animation; ~$2.2bn worldwide, the highest-grossing animated and non-English film ever — a new competitive axis to Japanese anime.

Invasive (1,024-electrode) and minimally-invasive (Stentrode) brain-computer interfaces

Nexon; record Q1 2026, NA/EU revenue +310% on ARC Raiders

Australia's leading data-center operator; 667MW contracted, OpenAI 550MW campus

Most populous (~230m); largest betting volume, NDPA, OPay; severe power constraints

New regime imposing reporting duties on critical infra (phased from 2026)

Sets post-quantum crypto standards and migration deadlines (2030/2035)

New Gen Z social formats (nostalgia / anonymous-hyperlocal)

Operates UPI, the world's largest real-time payments system

China's regulator controlling the ISBN/version approval gate

Network of 29 US AI research institutes, now under budget-cut pressure

Leads a $700m GPU/AI-data-center rollout with Cassava

The first open humanoid foundation model plus the Isaac simulation stack; core of NVIDIA's 'Android of robotics' strategy[^s1].

Robot edge-AI supercomputer; 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS / 128GB / 130W, 7.5x Orin compute; adopted by Agility, Figure, Boston Dynamics and others[^s2].

Japan-originated game-focused blockchain; MIXI joined as a validator in April 2023. Runs a 'Verse' Layer-2 and hosts titles such as Bandai Namco's 'RYUZO'.

Source of cross-country real household income and wage data

UK OSA regulator; issued HEAA guidance and several age-assurance fines

The privacy regulator drafting the Children's Online Privacy Code, which extends to apps and games.

Canada's regulated iGaming markets; PointsBet's growth driver (Ontario casino-first, Alberta live July 2026)

High-growth Nigerian fintech payment players

AI video generation + social app; app shut down Apr 2026, symbolizing the hype-sorting

Text-to-video model; standalone app shut in April 2026 and folded into ChatGPT, with serving economics (~USD 15M/day) a challenge.

Video-generation AI; named and criticized by AJA and publishers for copyright infringement over mass Ghibli-style generation — a focal point of the AI-copyright debate.

Fifth AI cloud; $500B+ remaining performance obligations

New-investor consortium in TikTok US JV (15% each); Oracle also hosts cloud/data

Japan's first integrated resort (Yumeshima, ~¥1.27tn / ~$8.9bn initial investment, opening fall 2030); ~$5.9bn annual GGR projected (Bloomberg Intelligence). Aichi, Hokkaido and Nagasaki prepare for the 2027 second IR window.

Longevity wearables for daily self-management via biological-age and AI coaching

Fan direct-pay platforms; Patreon $179M 2025 revenue

Australia/APAC's largest game-talent recruiting week each October, co-located with GCAP and the AGDAs

Melbourne's annual games industry events (85,000+ attendees)

Australia's P2P/account payment rails; ~20M registrations expected

Japan's top QR payment app; 70M users, ~64% QR share, ¥12.5tn GMV, Nasdaq-listed Mar 2026

New Jun 2026 ratings: loot boxes = PEGI 16, NFT = PEGI 18

Agentic browsers executing autonomous multi-step tasks (leading share in Apr 2026)

India's top UPI app; ~45% of volume (Dec 2025)

France-based AI photo app; $89.99/yr, added AI video generation in 2025

Builds the 'software brain,' not robots; π0 is a multi-task VLA. Valued $5.6B with talks at $11B[^s5][^s6].

India's largest EdTech; IPO'd at ~$5.2bn (contrasting BYJU'S collapse)

Investor consortium acquiring EA for $55B ($36B equity + $20B debt)

13-state+DC grid; capacity $329/MW-day, bulk of rise from data centers

AU's largest listed studio; MOUSE: P.I. For Hire, Meta exit exposed outsource risk

State-by-state wagering-revenue tax: NSW/VIC 15%, QLD 20%, 15-25% nationally; levied where the customer sits, shaping a national operator's effective tax rate.

Australian sports-betting firm acquired by MIXI; drives consolidated sports growth

Pokémon Company/DeNA; ~$1.49B lifetime, leads Japan grossing

AGDAs 2025: The Drifter won GOTY; Massive Monster Studio of the Year

Federal bill introduced by Senators Schiff and Curtis in 2026 to bar CFTC-registered entities from listing sports-bet-like contracts.

Japan-specific scheme where publishers, distributors and toymakers co-invest to share risk and profit; criticized for profit not reaching the production floor.

Blanket real-money-gaming ban (Aug 2025); SC reviewed constitutionality Jan 2026

Indian law enacted in August 2025 (implementing Rules effective 1 May 2026) that criminally bans all paid online games, wiping out an estimated ~US$25bn market overnight.

India; full RMG ban, OGAI oversight, promotes esports/casual

India's federal law banning all real-money gaming, skill or chance (effective May 2026), while promoting esports and social games; the Supreme Court upheld the 28% GST.

Bans all real-money games including skill; promotes esports/F2P

Building a ~A$940m quantum computer at Moreton Bay Central near Brisbane (targeting 2029 operation).

Japan's sanctioned betting regime for keirin/boat/auto/horse racing; the premise for Sports revenue

Parenting-journal app; acquired by Tinybeans in Nov 2025

Double-extortion threat actors that halted Asahi and KADOKAWA

India hosted the 2025 summit; aligns on critical tech and semiconductors

Screen-time / web-filter parental-control app (29 filtering categories)

Reformed in the 2026-27 budget: core offset up to 48%, A$200m expenditure cap (effective July 2028).

A ~700B MoE Japanese-specialized open model (Apache 2.0, GENIAC); directly usable for localization/production.

Up to €800bn rearmament plan; raises up to €150bn in markets via the SAFE joint-procurement loan instrument.

Planning a world-leading 3GW AI data center in Jamnagar; Meta leasing 168MW

AI photo enhancer; 120m downloads in 2024, top-grossing in photography

Leading AI companion with 40M+ installs

Australia's central bank; cash rate 4.35% as of June 2026, with upside risk amid sticky inflation.

Industry body for online wagering operators; advocates on POCT and other taxes, product fees and regulation.

Leading subscription infra; key data source for industry billing benchmarks

Japan's flagship AI research center; 9 papers at ACL 2025, explainable-AI work

Formerly Wargaming Sydney (acquired by Riot 2022); core-tech R&D hub for VALORANT and more

Provides comp benchmarks via its Japan and US salary guides

Offers NFL/NCAA contracts via Kalshi

UGC game platform; paid creators $1.5B+ in 2025, 144M DAU

Launching GTA VI Nov 19, 2026; sets market demand pace

Dream Games; top match-3 at $1.37B in 2025

Pro-grade video generation (Gen-4.5); favored where granular creative control is needed.

Credit rails on UPI; ~40% of new card issuance, +20%/month

Africa's signature mobile money; the de facto payment rail

Japanese cloud; first into Government Cloud, runs Sakura One GPU service

Reshaping engineer hiring around AI assistance (Salesforce hired zero new engineers FY2026; Atlassian added ~800 AI roles)

Prime Minister of Japan; visited Australia in May 2026, upgrading ties to a 'special strategic partnership'.

Canadian general-purpose humanoid company; a key player emphasizing dexterous manipulation and a cognitive architecture.

NSW screen/games agency; 10% rebate on qualifying digital-games spend (A$350k threshold).

State/federal games grant & incentive bodies

Post-IEEPA tariffs; §122 expires 7/24, §301 substitutes

State of Tech Talent report; flags ~50% new-grad drop and AI-talent clustering

US startup building a general-purpose 'foundation brain' model for robots; a contender in the Physical-AI control-model race.

Work visa replacing the old 482 (live Dec 2025); Specialist Skills threshold A$146,717, path to PR cut to 2 years.

Emblem of Web3 gaming's revival; on 12 May 2026 migrated to an OP Stack Ethereum Layer-2, redesigning for lower inflation and builder rewards.

Among the world's heaviest usage in Australia (16h26m/month on Android)

Made Iceberg v3 GA (Horizon/Open Catalog); drives the open lakehouse

Builds Japan's sovereign cloud and sovereign AI GPU cloud on Oracle Alloy; Rapidus investor and Stargate partner

Converting the former Sharp Sakai plant into a 150 MW AI data center; deploys 'Cristal Intelligence' via its OpenAI JV.

Maker of the emotional-communication robot Pepper; a track record in eldercare and monitoring deployments[^s23].

Japanese firms that raised AI new-grad starting pay to as high as JPY 10M

Sony-affiliated blockchain; a home for Japanese IP — e.g. Square Enix reviving its shelved Web3 game 'SYMBIOGENESIS' on the chain.

Most mature market; largest betting gross win, 70% of DC capacity, POPIA

Locally licensed betting operators; candidate partnership anchors

Sports-data and integrity giant; a 2026 securities-fraud class action (SDNY) over alleged ties to illegal markets put data-infrastructure trust in question.

Australia's largest online bookmaker with ~45% market share and PointsBet's main rival; Australian-user revenue fell for a third straight year to A$1.3bn in 2025.

Open, locally-runnable image generation; suited to on-prem/sovereign-leaning production.

Benchmarks the research frontier, industry-vs-academia split and adoption via the annual AI Index

Global index of AI talent/skills; shows surging agentic-AI skill demand

Major US AI-infra venture deploying ~450K GB200 GPUs

OpenAI-Oracle-SoftBank-led USD 500B, four-year US AI-infrastructure plan ultimately targeting about 10 GW.

US state laws imposing age verification and parental approval on app stores/developers (Utah effective May 6, 2027)

The largest PC game-distribution platform; revised player-facing generative-AI disclosure rules in January 2026, with ~20% of new releases disclosing generative-AI use.

Key chokepoint driving the war's oil-supply disruption

AI music generation; settled with Warner in November 2025 and pivoting to licensed models, with Sony's suit heard in July 2026.

Flipkart's UPI/credit fintech; SuperCard targets new-to-credit users

D2C exemplar where fee-free external links helped several titles exceed $1B

Pune-based studio behind Indus Battle Royale; raised $15M Series B

Consolidated all Online Gaming Act challenges in Sep 2025

Tokyo-government-led Asian flagship startup conference

Building the Dholera fab with PSMC; first silicon targeted late 2026

Building India's first 300mm front-end fab in Dholera

World's largest games company, publisher of Honor of Kings

Tesla's humanoid; Gen 3 running at Fremont, targeted at $20k–$30k at scale, claiming massive onboard compute via Tesla's FSD chip[^s9].

Embodied AI (humanoids); Optimus Gen 3 in mass production (USD 20-30K target), Figure 03 at one unit/hour, 1X Neo at 10,000 units/year.

The largest stablecoin (~$189.6bn, ~58-60% share); did not apply for MiCA authorization and was delisted from major EU exchanges.

Independent DSP powering Walmart's off-site programmatic

Text-social app; 400M MAU in Aug 2025, chasing X

Top US in-app spender; ~$1.7bn in Q2 2025

US ops carved out; major creator-distribution platform

Lets AI agents (Claude/ChatGPT) drive ad ops; Smart+ for automated optimization

Shoppable-livestream platform, GMV ~$66B (2025) heading to ~$87B (2026)

Life360-owned finding devices / kids GPS; hardware ~18% of revenue

Spot-work startup MIXI invested in; partial share sale boosted FY2025 investment profit

MIXI's sports/betting app; Q3 FY2026 sales +87.2%

Public-competition net voting at ~25% takeout; revenue from commissions and comprehensive keirin-track fees. Keirin hit a record ¥1.33tn in FY2024.

Public-competition (keirin/auto/boat) betting plus the netkeiba horse-racing media

MIXI's net-voting service for keirin, PIST6 and auto racing; PIST6 tickets are online-only with TIPSTAR the sole platform. Targets under-40s.

Money-handling, licensed business potentially held to finance-grade continuity

Veteran studio behind Dragon Ball and One Piece; FY2025 grew sales and profit led by overseas licensing and film — a flagship of overseas IP monetization.

Former TBS Holdings representative director; joined MIXI board June 2025 (public info)

Through Toyota Research Institute and others, a Japanese hardware base researching home/care robots and large-scale robot learning.

Text/image-to-3D asset generation; Tripo ~8 seconds on average, Meshy with auto-rigging plus 500+ animation presets.

Fab 2 upgraded to 3nm; ~¥11.2tn 10-year ripple

Source of US personal income/outlays; tracks monthly disposable-income trends

US federal regulator over prediction-market sports event contracts; issued an NPRM in June 2026.

AI music generation; settled with Universal in October 2025 to co-build a licensed AI-music service.

Studio behind Demon Slayer; its theatrical Infinity Castle topped $800m worldwide, the highest-grossing anime film ever.

Digital-ID backbone with ~1.44bn IDs

The UK betting regulator; sets the global responsible-gambling benchmark via affordability checks, mandatory deposit-limit tools and a 40% online-GGR tax (from April 2026).

Extended to mobile games in 2025; mandates high-privacy defaults

Mandates child-safety duties and age assurance; fines up to 10% of global revenue

Authoritative data on aging and demographic dividends

China's low-cost volume leader; G1 at $13,560 and R1 from $5,900, a fraction of Western machines, leading global shipments[^s12].

In-engine asset generation (Unity Muse) and NPC training/physics (NVIDIA Omniverse/ACE) AI production tools

Engine behind Monster Strike; scrapped the Runtime Fee, raised subscriptions

World models, robotics and LLMs (Tanuki); a hub for talent and spinouts

President of the European Commission; led the US-EU 15% tariff deal and the Digital Fairness Act and tech-sovereignty agenda.

Utah/Texas/Louisiana etc. mandate app-store age checks state by state

June 2026 order — the first to treat cloud API access to a model as export-controlled; signed by Commerce Secretary Lutnick.

Boston federal court found the H-1B fee unlawful; Chamber of Commerce, AAU and 20 states are plaintiffs

Second AI executive order signed 2 June 2026; sets cybersecurity mandates and a voluntary framework for secure deployment of frontier AI.

Children's online privacy rule; first amended since 2013, biometrics added, compliance April 2026

Rebuilding the legal basis of tariffs via Section 301

Requires AI Generated Content Disclosure on store pages (Jan 2026 rewrite focuses on player-facing content)

Top US P2P app by users; ~97.1M users, ~62% of the P2P market

Partners with OpenAI to embed tokenized credentials in agent transactions

US retail media #2; DSP partnered with The Trade Desk

GPU API at Baseline in all major browsers; enables web-distributed games

Google/Microsoft-authored W3C browser standard; turns sites into agent tools

Leading coworking provider serving GCCs and unicorns

India's contact base; ~535M users, the world's largest single-country market

Century Games; 4X-survival, from $936M in 2024 to $1.4B+ in 2025

Formal gaming-disorder classification underpinning scrutiny of engagement design

Monitors zoonotic flu like H5N1 and Disease X; steward of the Pandemic Agreement

$48M DK/FD/Fanatics/Bet365 super PAC targeting 17 states

Distribution platform with 250M registered users; pivoted to F2P post-ban

Studio known for Attack on Titan; in 2026 admitted and apologized for AI-generated OP backgrounds — an emblem of the AI controversy.

Symbol of women's-sports surge; rights rise to $200m/yr ($2.2bn over 11 years) in 2026, average franchise value $427m (+59%), with Toronto and Portland joining.

Founded by Fei-Fei Li; launched Marble, the first commercial world model, in November 2025 (exports Gaussian splats/collision meshes).

Provider of Grok 4.3, rated for creative work; part of the multi-vendor frontier race.

3D anime AI companions; controversial over NSFW and minor protection

One of Japan's robotics 'Big Five'; an industrial-robot major with core servo and motion-control technology[^s23].

Top US media distributor (12.5%, Jan 2026), capturing time via connected TV

$100M India investment; Shorts 45% revenue share, a low-payout format

289M US / 78.7M JP; Shorts the fastest-growing format across markets

~200bn daily views; discovery/UGC channel that hedges TikTok dependence

US banks' P2P; $1.2tn volume and 145M users in 2025, #1 by P2P value

Co-publishes the India GCC Landscape 2026; provides center, headcount and AI/ML-first stats

72-hour breach report + CERT-In 6-hour rule, reaching FamilyAlbum's India operations

Leads Japan's SNS age-verification review; eschews an Australia-style blanket ban

US Defense Secretary; omitted Taiwan at Shangri-La, symbol of commitment uncertainty

Energy tail; six-month mine-clearing, spilling into crude/LNG cost

Service in 175 countries (~40% overseas) where global continuity matters

House-call / online-consult app; 600k+ cumulative downloads in 2025

Kids GPS monitor; talk + panic-alarm model on subscription

MIXI first-party ML; moved rules→ML to optimize merchandise suggestions for ~25M users

Over half of India's DC capacity and a key cable-landing hub, a candidate for Asian dispersion

MIXI's flagship IP running on a hybrid on-prem + AWS stack

Exports Mogami-class frigates to Australia (up to 11 ships, ~$10bn); among Japan's largest defense exports

Normalizing Taiwan-proximate drills and blockade rehearsals

Oversees APPI reform (fines)

Oversees the prompt/full breach-report and individual-notification duties

Keirin/horse/boat racing; legal basis for MIXI's TIPSTAR/Chariloto

Issues the Nankai/Tokyo/Mt-Fuji estimates and the Business Continuity Guidelines

MIXI-owned B.LEAGUE club; normalized sellouts at home LaLa arena TOKYO-BAY (~11,000), partnered with Puma, and clears B.LEAGUE PREMIER criteria.

25M+ global users; candidate touchpoint for family/community co-creation

Defense Minister; leads US-Japan missile co-production & SOFA talks

Projects up to 8.4m stranded in a Tokyo quake; asks firms to hold staff in place, avoid mass return

Leads monetary normalization; policy rate at 1.0%

Guarantees cross-border data flows, bars localization, eliminates digital-product tariffs

Hit by unauthorized access in March 2026, emblem of Japan's manufacturing-targeting ransomware wave

Rule requiring listed firms to disclose material incidents within ~4 business days

Record 42.7m visitors / ¥9.5tn spend in 2025; Chinese arrivals -45% in Dec

Owns operational-resilience supervision and the FISC Security Guidelines (13th ed., 2025)