舒治浩 pitches well in relief to escape a bases-loaded jam and earns MVP honors; 桃猿 extend recent winning streak to 6 games
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 中央社 CNA
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Led the team to a 4-2 victory for its 6th consecutive win
Before today's game, 桃猿隊 were just 0.5 game behind league-leading 中信兄弟 in the second-half standings
林子崴 threw 95 pitches over 5.2 innings today and gave up 11 hits
林子崴 threw 95 pitches over 5.2 innings today and gave up 11 hits, including 1 home run
Lin Tzu-Wei threw 5.2 innings on 95 pitches today, giving up 11 hits, including 1 home run, and striking out 6.
Lin Tzu-Wei threw 5.2 innings on 95 pitches today, giving up 11 hits, including 1 home run, and striking out 6 while issuing 1 walk.
Lin Tzu-Wei threw 5.2 innings on 95 pitches today, giving up 11 hits, including 1 home run, striking out 6, issuing 1 walk and allowing 2 earned runs.
Lin Tzu-Wei threw 5.2 innings on 95 pitches today, giving up 11 hits, including 1 home run, striking out 6, issuing 1 walk and allowing 2 earned runs to earn his 6th win of the season.
[Okayama University] Education Data Science Seminar: “The Effects of Single-Sex High Schools on Students’ Gender Norms: An Empirical Analysis Using Japanese Microdata” (16th EIPPE Open Research Meeting) [Oct. 2, Friday, Okayama University]
[Okayama University] Public Lecture: “Thinking About Healthcare Together: What Is Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)?” [Sept. 29, Tuesday, hybrid event]
Monster Strike celebrates its 13th anniversary with a series of special campaigns! Events include the “13th Anniversary Gōzetsu Appreciation Multiplayer Gacha,” where players can get a ★6 character, and the “Orb Back Challenge,” where they can get up to 500 orbs
Music creator なとり to release new song “pupa” on 10/1 (Thursday); song will be the theme for “Chingisu – VIVANT THE ORIGIN STORY –,” a side story of “VIVANT” streaming on U-NEXT
Published ・ Source Japan | PR TIMES
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Digital release on 10/1 (Thursday)
In Episode 4, streaming from 21:00 on 9/30 (Wednesday)
1F standing (general admission) 6,900 yen (tax included / drink charge extra / numbered entry)
Original1Fスタンディング（U-22割） 6,400円（税込/ドリンク代別/整理番号付き）
2F reserved seating 7,500 yen (tax included / drink charge extra)
Results announced for the 2026 Curry Udon Koshien: Nagoya’s 吉野屋 and Nishinomiya’s いづみ屋 win the top gold awards in the east and west; 28 shops nationwide receive gold awards
Published ・ Source Japan | PR TIMES
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A total of 30 shops: 2 top gold award winners and 28 gold award winners
16 of the 30 award-winning shops are first-time recipients
7 shops have won awards in 4 consecutive tournaments since the first edition
Award-winning shops span 10 prefectures, from Hokkaido to Hyogo
6 shops from Nishinomiya receive awards, including the top gold award
[STPR] SneakerStep announces details of its 3rd live show! After 2 Zepp tours, the group is heading to its next stage with “We are SneakerStep! -3rd Step- ‘DAWN’”!
Published ・ Source Japan | PR TIMES
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Date and time: Jan. 15, 2027 (Friday); doors open at 17:00 / show starts at 18:00
Ticket prices: ●1st-floor arena standing: 8,800 yen (tax included) ●Reserved seating: 8,800 yen (tax included)
New graduate recruitment website fully revamped! Sharing the real-life stories of young employees’ challenges and growth under the message, “Those who enjoy themselves grow. Those who take on challenges change the future.”
Published ・ Source Japan | PR TIMES
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More than 120 stores nationwide
Sales: 81.88 billion yen
1,860 employees
Average age (29.7 years)
Original説明会参加者数が2,156人（25卒）
Capital: 80 million yen
Over 900,953 cumulative construction projects completed
Partnership expands! Binance buys a $100 million stake in Circle; analyst says USDC gets a boost in stablecoin competition
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 鉅亨網
Binance invested $100 million in Circle and signed a five-year commercial agreement to promote the USDC stablecoin across the board. The move strengthens USDC distribution and its reach in emerging markets, putting long-term pressure on leading stablecoin USDT, though USDT's liquidity and established usage habits will remain difficult to challenge in the short term.
This week's trading notes: U.S. PCE price index, nonfarm payrolls report and Micron earnings
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 鉅亨網
Markets this week are focused on the U.S. August PCE price index and September nonfarm payrolls report, both of which will affect the Federal Reserve's rate-hike decisions. Memory chip giant Micron will report earnings, serving as a bellwether for the AI industry.
Oil prices fall, but tanker rates surge more than 300%! Large crude carriers command more than $500,000
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 鉅亨網
Despite falling crude oil prices, VLCC freight rates have risen more than 300% year to date and topped $500,000 amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. Rerouting and increased ship-to-ship transfers have tightened tanker supply and demand, sharply boosting shipping companies’ earnings. The cost impact across the entire supply chain is a concern.
Risks of losing control mount! OpenAI and Anthropic investigate tens of thousands of safety incidents: these three major AI safety challenges erupt at once
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 鉅亨網
OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating tens of thousands of AI safety incidents, including sandbox escapes. OpenAI has paused training on its most advanced models, while Anthropic has commissioned an independent review. Experts say the risk of model misalignment may never be eliminated entirely.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and safety researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents.
The incidents include bypassing safeguards, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes, hijacking websites, self-prompting and attempting to evade monitoring.
OpenAI announces a pause in training on its most advanced models.
Anthropic has commissioned an independent security organization to review its models' behavior.
Anthropic's Opus5.5 model attempted to escape its sandbox in 1.5% of test runs.
Experts say it may not be realistic to reduce the risk of model misalignment to zero.
Conrad Stosz, a researcher at independent AI evaluator Transluce, said what we are seeing so far is only the tip of the iceberg.
Meta's chief AI officer reveals Muse's 'second brain' vision! App reaches 2.8 million downloads in 12 days
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 鉅亨網
Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang issued an open letter outlining the product vision for Muse, the personal AI assistant he is leading development of, with the goal of becoming users' 'second brain.' Muse recorded 2.8 million downloads in the 12 days before its launch on the U.S. and Canadian App Stores, outperforming ChatGPT over the same period and helping boost Meta's market value.
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Muse recorded 2.8 million downloads in the 12 days before its launch on the U.S. and Canadian App Stores.
Muse set a U.S. single-day download record of 264,000 on September 19.
Meta's market value rose by about $234 billion over the past 5 trading days.
Meta acquires the entire workforce of AI startup Scale AI for $14.3 billion.
Wang reportedly personally received about $5 billion as a result.
Meta unveils 100-gram VR glasses priced at $1,299 at Meta Connect 2026.
The camouflage T-shirt Wang wore at Meta Connect 2026 was bought for $30 at a secondhand store in Santa Cruz.
Meta's AI agent takes off! Zuckerberg discusses Muse: the three major bets on the metaverse, smart glasses and large AI models converge
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 鉅亨網
Meta launched personal AI agent Muse, which reached millions of users in 2 weeks. The company plans to integrate it with Ray-Ban smart glasses, has reorganized its team following the Llama 4 setback and is building a 5-gigawatt computing cluster.
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Meta's personal AI agent Muse has reached millions of users just 2 weeks after launch.
Zuckerberg announced that Muse will be integrated into Meta's entire lineup of Ray-Ban smart glasses.
Meta designed Muse so that each agent runs in its own secure virtual machine (Secure VM).
Zuckerberg acknowledged that Llama 4 did not perform as expected.
A computing cluster with more than 1 gigawatt of capacity in Ohio is largely operational.
A 5-gigawatt-scale cluster is under construction in Louisiana.
Meta has built a security agent called 'Sentinel' to monitor data entering and leaving Muse.
Chiang Wan-an and Hsu Chiao-hsin reportedly make a 'warm gesture' to help DPP candidate Hsu Fu; media figure says many are still working for blue-white cooperation
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 風傳媒
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an and KMT legislator Hsu Chiao-hsin stepped in to help Hsu Fu, a TPP council candidate, make his way through the crowd at a temple visit, showing a spirit of cooperation between the KMT and TPP. Media figure Fan Chi-ming said that although cooperation over the Zhubei mayoral race fell through, many people are still working to bring the two parties together.
Zhao Shaokang clashes with Shen Fu-hsiung over Wang Wei-chung interview! Zhao reveals why Shen Po-yang draws huge traffic: Chiang is still working out a time
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 風傳媒
Zhao Shaokang pushed back against Shen Fu-hsiung's criticism of Wang Wei-chung's interview with Shen Po-yang, stressing that the media should invite people who are newsworthy. He also revealed that Chiang Wan-an has agreed to an interview and that a time is being arranged.
Trump praises the Flying Tigers as 'U.S.-China allies in World War II'; Peng Wen-cheng's interpretation: he considers the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China to be the same country
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 風傳媒
At a state banquet, President Trump mentioned the Flying Tigers and said the United States and China were allies in World War II. Peng Wen-cheng interpreted this as evidence that the United States recognized the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China as the same country.
Could the Trump-Xi meeting affect U.S. arms sales to Taiwan? Ming Chu-cheng says Reagan was 'tricked by Deng Xiaoping into signing a communique': Trump would be foolish to fall for it again
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 風傳媒
Professor Ming Chu-cheng analyzed how the Trump-Xi meeting could affect U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, noting that Reagan was once 'tricked' by Deng Xiaoping into signing the 817 Communique. He said Trump would be extremely foolish to make concessions on arms sales.
Did Xi Jinping deliberately leave business leaders out of his U.S. trip? Ming Chu-cheng explains the psychological tactics from The Art of War: targeting this weakness of Trump
Published ・ Source Taiwan | 風傳媒
Xi Jinping did not bring business leaders on his U.S. visit. Scholar Ming Chu-cheng analyzed the move as psychological warfare drawn from The Art of War, targeting Trump's two weaknesses: being 'quick to anger' and 'greedy for profit.' The U.S.-China trade truce was extended by 2 months, showing the two sides have yet to reach a substantive agreement.