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TOKYO, Sept 18, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Orchestrating Future Fund (NOFF), an ecosystem-based corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, has made an investment in Sakana AI, a Japan-based company that gathers technical talent from around the world to conduct research and development of generative AI. While the use of AI is essential to improve the competitiveness of companies, the development of large-scale AI models requires an enormous amount of time and cost to learn data. Sakana AI was founded...

- Contributing to Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' project for development and demonstration of technologies for countermeasures against false and misleading information on the Internet - TOKYO, Sept 13, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) is developing a technology that uses AI to analyze the trustworthiness of information on the Internet from multiple perspectives and support fact-checking. This is being carried out as part of a project under...

TOKYO, Sept 12, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has published the ESG Databook 2024, a report on its ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) initiatives from April 2023 onwards. NEC ESG Databook 2024 URL: www.nec.com/en/global/sustainability/report/index.html As outlined in its Mid-term Management Plan 2025 (*), NEC aims to create social and environmental value through its business, with a focus on growth areas, and as part of its financial strategy, is strengthening...

PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH NEC CONTRACTS AND THE UK GOVERNMENT TO TRANSLATE AND IMPLEMENT STANDARDISED CONTRACTING PR Newswire LONDON, Aug. 15, 2024 LONDON , Aug. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NEC and The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) for Peru have announced a new partnership for the NEC suite of contracts to be adopted as the country's preferred contract framework for infrastructure projects. Representatives came together to sign a Memorandum of Understanding, leading the way...

NEC's biotech arm and AGC's life science division join forces to advance personalized treatment for patients suffering from cancer TOKYO, Aug 8, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Bio Therapeutics and AGC Biologics have announced a partnership to advance the production of NECVAX-NEO1, an orally delivered, bacteria-based DNA vaccine designed to target patient-specific tumor neoantigens. This important and promising collaboration aims to enhance the production of personalized cancer treatments by...

TOKYO, Aug 1, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has received an order to build a communications system and a Facility Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition System (Facility SCADA System) for the Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) North-South Line Extension Project Phase 2 from Larsen & Toubro Limited, a major India-based construction company and a specialized subcontractor of the main contractor Sojitz Corporation, a leading Japan-based trading company. This project is...

- Comprehensive risk assessment of 150 types of NEC Group business activities - TOKYO, July 29, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has announced publication of the NEC TNFD Report (2nd Edition), a report disclosing business risks and opportunities related to natural capital(1), including biodiversity, based on the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) Final Recommendations v1.0(2) issued by the TNFD in September 2023. NEC set forth a vision for the future of...

TOKYO, July 29, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited NEC?s headquarters, where he toured the NEC Future Creation Hub showroom and engaged in discussions about NEC?s cutting-edge technologies. NEC?s President and CEO Takayuki Morita guided the tour, showcasing NEC?s advanced products and services, including submarine cables, 5G Open RAN, high-speed image recognition, and gateless biometric authentication...