Kawasaki Heavy Industries Announces AI Partnership with Nvidia, Shares Surge
According to Bloomberg, Kawasaki Heavy Industries saw its shares soar after announcing plans for an AI partnership with Nvidia. The market reacted strongly to the sight of a traditional heavy industry manufacturer teaming up with the leading AI chip company.
The move is a symbolic example of how Japanese manufacturers as a whole are accelerating the integration of AI into their production and engineering processes. Following the automotive sector, AI adoption now shows signs of taking off in earnest in heavy industry.
White House Rescinds AI Executive Order
According to Politico, the Trump administration has withdrawn its executive order on AI regulation. The reversal reportedly came after David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto czar, raised concerns about the order's negative impact on the industry.
This is a follow-up to the AI regulation developments reported earlier. While the direction of regulation has been revised in response to industry voices, the balance with calls for AI safety testing is likely to remain a point of contention. US AI regulation remains in flux.
Japan's Immigration Agency Considers AI-Powered Social Media Monitoring System
On May 22, Japan's Immigration Services Agency announced a policy to strengthen cyber patrols that collect and analyze social media posts, aiming to crack down harder on foreigners overstaying their visas or working illegally. The goal is to identify solicitations for illegal employment exchanged in foreign languages and trade information for forged residence cards, using them as leads for enforcement.
The agency is also reportedly considering the use of commercial analysis tools and AI. While this could spark debate over the balance between privacy and public safety, it also shows that AI adoption in government agencies is steadily expanding.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Reaches Practical Speeds Locally on M5 Max
Benchmark results have been published showing DeepSeek-V4-Flash running locally on an M5 Max with 128GB of unified memory, using ds4 (a native inference engine built specifically for DeepSeek V4 Flash) developed by antirez, the creator of Redis.
It reportedly achieves 34 tok/s decode speed and 197ms TTFT, and processes 2,000-token inputs in 0.12 seconds on KV cache hits. The KV disk cache persists across restarts and supports partial prefix matching. As a native engine supporting both Metal and CUDA, it marks a major step forward for the practicality of local LLMs.
Firebase AI Logic Adds iOS Support for Hybrid Inference
Firebase AI Logic's hybrid inference feature, announced at Google I/O 2026, is now available on iOS. The official Firebase SDK provides a mechanism that automatically switches between Apple Intelligence's Foundation Models (an on-device 3B-parameter model) and cloud Gemini.
Since on-device inference is free, games and free apps that had held off on AI features due to API costs can now build them in. It is a rare example of the Google and Apple ecosystems intersecting, and it is drawing attention as a move that could accelerate the spread of mobile AI.
Apple Acquires IP from Virtual Avatar Company Animato
It has come to light that Apple has hired employees from Animato, a developer of virtual avatars for video chat and tutoring, and acquired its intellectual property. The deal surfaced in European Commission filings.
Structured as an "acqui-hire," the deal includes non-exclusive licenses and patent applications. Apple's willingness to invest in AI avatar technology is now clear, raising expectations for AI-powered features in FaceTime and its messaging apps.
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The Kawasaki Heavy Industries × Nvidia partnership is based on Bloomberg reporting (details behind a paywall)
The White House AI order rescission was first reported by Politico
The immigration social media patrols are based on the Immigration Services Agency's May 22 announcement
The ds4 local inference results are based on the antirez/ds4 repository and a Zenn verification article
Firebase AI Logic's iOS support is based on the Google I/O 2026 announcement
The Animato acquisition is based on European Commission filings and MacRumors reporting