{"id":1000994,"date":"2026-04-04T07:51:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000994"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:30:51","slug":"microsoft-to-invest-10-billion-in-japan-for-ai-cyber-defence-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/microsoft-to-invest-10-billion-in-japan-for-ai-cyber-defence-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to invest $10 billion in Japan for AI, cyber defence expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Friday said it will invest 1.6 trillion yen ($10 billion) in Japan between 2026 and 2029 to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure and strengthen cybersecurity cooperation with the government. <\/p>\n<p>The investment \u200cincludes the \u2060training \u2060of 1 million engineers and developers by 2030, Microsoft said, which was unveiled during a visit to Tokyo by Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. In a statement, the company said the plan aligns with Prime \u2060Minister Sanae \u200cTakaichi&#8217;s goal to boost growth through advanced, strategic technologies while safeguarding national \u2060security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Friday said it will invest 1.6 trillion yen ($10 billion) in Japan between 2026 and 2029 to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure and strengthen cybersecurity cooperation with the government. The investment \u200cincludes the \u2060training \u2060of 1 million engineers and developers by 2030, Microsoft said, which was unveiled during a visit to Tokyo by Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. In a statement, the company said the plan aligns with Prime \u2060Minister Sanae \u200cTakaichi&#8217;s goal to boost growth through advanced, strategic technologies while safeguarding national \u2060security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}