AI News 180m Report｜2026-06-18 21:00–24:00 JSThttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.htmlOne place for news and notices from 2 countries/regions: Taiwan, 27 items from 2 sources; Japan, 19 items from 2 sources.One edition every 180 minutes: every item from every source received in the period, with the original link.en Wildfires break out in Spain's Catalonia, halting high-speed rail between Madrid and Barcelonahttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105879https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105879Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:35:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA Taiwan's competitiveness rises to 4th globally; President Lai: Best result everhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105880https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105880Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:34:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA 威力彩頭獎10.38億元1注獨得 獎落台北市https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105332https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105332Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:05:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA US Justice Department investigates transactions linked to Iran's supreme leader; US banks suspected of involvementhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104126https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104126Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:08:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA 威力彩第115049期開獎https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103797https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103797Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:52:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA 楊金龍 on Taiwan stocks: Tech firms are indeed making money, and economic fundamentals are solidhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103580https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103580Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:37:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA China again uses a pretext to intrude, conducting a "marine environmental survey" in waters east of Taiwanhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103579https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103579Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:37:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA Facing inflationary pressure, Bank of England holds interest rate steady at 3.75%https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103578https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103578Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:37:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA 杏昌 acquires 76% stake in 安星製藥 for more than NT$890 million, expanding into drug manufacturinghttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103581https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103581Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:36:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA Heavy afternoon rain in Taipei City; man trapped in a home in a Xinyi District alley rescuedhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103464https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103464Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:33:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA 伊朗 says historic agreement will end the war, refuses to include missiles in talkshttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103463https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103463Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:33:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA Lottery shop partially prevails in final ruling over penalty for selling sports lottery tickets to minorshttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103467https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103467Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:29:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA Woman who lay on hood to stop drunk driving thrown off and killed; live-in partner's 15-year sentence upheldhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103466https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103466Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:29:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA US Section 301 investigation: 卓榮泰 says efforts are being made to ensure ART leads to a favorable decision for Taiwanhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103465https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103465Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:29:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA About 60 bank employees investigated; 金管會 says 13 banks reported major incidentshttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103353https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103353Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:23:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA Foreign investors return to net buying, purchasing NT$21.1 billion worth of shares in two traditional-industry leaders and active ETFshttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103241https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103241Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:18:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA No Japanese films at 上海電影節; veteran film buff says it is worse than the "Korean ban"https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103239https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103239Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:18:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA 不滿遭比南非種族隔離政權 以外長切斷與歐盟外長聯繫https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103240https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103240Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:15:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA 國泰投信 recalculates NAVs for 8 funds; 金管會 scrutinizes internal controls, with fines of up to NT$3 millionhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103242https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103242Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:14:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA Czech nuclear protection center head dismissed over alleged training of Chinese military, raising national security concernshttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102911https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102911Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:01:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA 2 board members advocate rate hike; 楊金龍 says central bank is watching inflation and monetary policy remains hawkishhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102910https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102910Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:01:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA CPBL draft draws record 200 players; no players with overseas experiencehttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102799https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102799Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:57:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA Ministry of Economic Affairs power supply and demand report shifts renewable energy targets to installed capacityhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102800https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102800Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:56:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA Legislator questions 980,000 spent on office renovations; Lai Hsiu-ju: Renovations were done with budget savingshttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1100219https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1100219Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:51:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA New drama adapted from a work by 伊藤潤二; Gigi Leung and Chen Yan-fei deliver a mother-daughter acting showdownhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1100218https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1100218Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:51:00 +0900Taiwan中央社 CNA OrcaRouter adds support for Anthropic’s “Claude Code” — directly access more than 200 LLMs for agentic coding, with 0% token markup and 4 environment variableshttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105670https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105670Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:20:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES RAISE A SUILEN LIVE 2026 “Boot IGNITION” Tokyo show: Event reporthttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105343https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105343Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:10:02 +0900JapanPR TIMES Bandai announces new TCG “NARUTO Card Game”; worldwide simultaneous release set for 2027https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105344https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105344Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:00:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES The first-ever “Global Citizen Live: Tokyo” in Japan marks a historic milestone and comes to a close, with stunning performances by YOSHIKI, &TEAM, AI and 千葉 雄喜!https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105013https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105013Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:52:42 +0900JapanPR TIMES Implementation of the “Request Concerning Measures to Address the Declining Birthrate”https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104684https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104684Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:36:28 +0900JapanPR TIMES OrcaRouter adds support for GitHub “Copilot CLI” — directly access more than 200 LLMs through the world’s most widely used AI coding assistant, with 0% token markup and 4 lines of configurationhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104355https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104355Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:20:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES “Genshin Impact” Version “Luna Ⅷ” launches on Wednesday, July 1! The long-awaited Sandrone joins as a new playable character!https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104026https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104026Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:11:22 +0900JapanPR TIMES ブロスタ、アディダスとのコラボイベント「adidasスターカップ」を6月18日より開催 期間限定モード「スーパーボール」が登場https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104027https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104027Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:00:02 +0900JapanPR TIMES OrcaRouter adds support for open-source AI coding agent “Kilo Code” — directly access more than 200 LLMs from VS Code, JetBrains and CLI, with 0% token markuphttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103697https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103697Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:50:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES Notice of extension of Sato Kaihiro’s loanhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103478https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103478Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:40:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES BMSG announces that its large-scale festival “BMSG FES'26” will be held for the 5th consecutive year, marking its 5th edition. The 3-day event will take place in October once again in Odaiba, where last year it drew an ecstatic crowd of 80,000. The announcement was made at the final show of SKY-HI’s tour at Nippon Budokan.https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103482https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103482Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:30:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES Notice of Yu Funahashi’s loan move to 水戸ホーリーホックhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103481https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103481Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:30:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES Notice of Shuhei Mizoguchi’s loan move to 東京ヴェルディhttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103480https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103480Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:30:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES Notice of Haruto Matsumoto’s development loan move to カターレ富山https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103479https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103479Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:30:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES OrcaRouter adds support for open-source coding agent “OpenCode” — directly access more than 200 LLMs from the terminal, with 0% token markup and a 3-step setuphttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103253https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103253Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:20:01 +0900JapanPR TIMES UE5 visuals discussed at Unreal Fest Chicago 2026 — the “Code Name: 神不言” depiction of “romance you can almost touch”https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103032https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103032Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:00:07 +0900JapanPR TIMES AOKIの疲労回復ウェア「リカバリーケアプラス®ルームウェア」から暑くなるこれからの季節に最適なディズニーデザインの半袖・半ズボンのメッシュタイプが新登場！https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102699https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1102699Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:50:02 +0900JapanPR TIMES Annual securities report — 30th fiscal year (2025/04/01–2026/03/31)https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103252https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103252Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:16:00 +0900JapanEDINET 金融庁開示日本通信株式会社 has disclosed its annual securities report for its 30th fiscal year. The period covered runs from April 2025 through the end of March 2026. Annual securities report (beneficiary certificates of domestic investment trusts) — 1st fiscal period (2025/05/09–2026/03/19)https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103251https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1103251Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:12:00 +0900JapanEDINET 金融庁開示J.P. Morgan Asset Management Co., Ltd. has filed an annual securities report for the 1st period (2025/05/09–2026/03/19) for beneficiary certificates of domestic investment trusts. 【松川精密】 Announces key resolutions of its 115 annual general shareholders’ meetinghttps://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105554https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1105554Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:37:45 +0900Taiwan臺灣證券交易所松川精密 (7788) approved its 2025 financial report and earnings distribution proposal at its annual general meeting on June 17, 2026. Revisions to various internal rules were also approved. 【盛達】Announcement of information related to the Company's unaudited consolidated financial report for May 115https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104131https://ainews.idaeo.ai/180m/20260618-21/index-en.html#n1104131Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:35:56 +0900Taiwan臺灣證券交易所盛達電業 reported its financial position at the end of May 2026. Other receivables totaled about 200 million Taiwan dollars, most of which were overdue. The company is pursuing arbitration against a Chinese company to recover the debt, bringing its financial risks to the fore.