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About AsiaAI.FYI

East Asia is where much of the world’s most consequential AI and technology development is happening — and most of it never makes it into English-language coverage.

AsiaAI.FYI is a weekly intelligence briefing that goes directly to the Japanese and Chinese-language press, technical publications, and government sources that Western analysts rarely read. Every issue translates and contextualizes the stories that are shaping East Asian technology, like semiconductors, AI infrastructure, robotics, policy, and explains why they matter to a global audience.

Who reads AsiaAI.FYI

This newsletter is written for people who need to understand what’s actually happening in East Asian technology, not just what gets picked up by Western wire services:

• Technology strategists and investors tracking the semiconductor supply chain
• Policy analysts following AI governance developments in Japan, China, and Korea
• Business leaders with exposure to East Asian markets
• Researchers and journalists who want primary-source context they can’t get elsewhere

What makes it different

Most English-language coverage of Asian technology relies on the same handful of English-language sources. AsiaAI.FYI reads the primary sources, like Nikkei, ITmedia, government ministry announcements, technical journals, and surfaces the stories and signals that don’t make it across the language barrier.

The result is a weekly briefing with a consistent point of view: East Asia first, primary sources first, business implications always.

How this Newsletter is made

AsiaAI.FYI is built with substantial help from AI. Source articles in Japanese, Korean and Chinese are gathered automatically, then translated, summarized and drafted by large language models. The analysis you read, the “Why it matters” and “For Western readers” sections, and the Signal essay, are machine-drafted and then edited.

Every story links to its original source, in the original language, so you can check any claim against the reporting it came from. We think that link matters more than any assurance we could give you about our process.

We tell you this because it changes how you should read us. Language models make mistakes, and they make them fluently. A wrong sentence reads exactly like a right one. They are weakest on very recent events, where a model may have no record of something that genuinely happened and conclude it did not. If we find an error, we retract it.

When we get something wrong, we correct it in public and leave the record up. Those corrections are collected at asiaai.fyi/corrections.

If you find an error, like a mistranslation, a misread figure, a claim that does not match the source, please tell us at weisinger@softfx.com. Readers who check our sources against our summaries are the most useful thing that happens to this publication.

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