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AI Strategy Headquarters
4 developments involving AI Strategy Headquarters in 1 country or body. The most recent is Japan’s Cabinet adopts second AI Basic Plan, prioritising vertical and physical AI, 14 Jul 2026.
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- Japan’s Cabinet adopts second AI Basic Plan, prioritising vertical and physical AI
The plan sets few binding duties or numeric targets for Japanese businesses, and its main lever is pushing generative AI into national and local government.
- Japan’s Cabinet adopts its first AI Basic Plan under the AI Promotion Act
Ministries, AI developers and the AI Safety Institute received the statutory policy agenda under the new Act, including the guideline it will use when asking companies to cooperate.
- Japan’s AI Strategy HQ adopts a guideline on appropriate AI development and use
Japanese developers and companies using AI have one government reference for expected conduct under the AI Promotion Act.
- Japan’s AI Strategy Headquarters meets for the first time and drafts a basic plan outline
The outline set the four policy directions that the Basic Plan and its guideline for AI businesses later followed.