Japanese Vice Minister of Finance Masato Kanda: Foreign exchange trends since the beginning of the year are also a consideration.

Makoto Kanda, Deputy Minister of Finance of Japan: Excessive exchange rate fluctuations have a great impact on businesses and households.

Makoto Kanda, Deputy Minister of Finance of Japan: When judging whether exchange rate fluctuations are excessive, various factors must be considered.

Spot gold fell more than $3 in the short term and is now at $1,821.90 per ounce.

WTI crude oil fell back below US$88/barrel, down 0.50% on the day; Brent crude oil fell by US$0.3 in the short term and is now at US$90.17/barrel.

Japanese Vice Minister of Finance Masato Kanda: Discussed the overall economic situation with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

Japanese Deputy Finance Minister Masato Kanda: No comment on foreign exchange intervention.

SoftBank CEO: Artificial intelligence now has the ability to learn, train and reason on its own, just like humans.

SoftBank CEO: It is wrong to say that artificial intelligence is created by humans and cannot be smarter than humans.

SoftBank CEO: Within 10 years, artificial general intelligence will be 10 times smarter than the sum of human intelligence.

SoftBank CEO: GPT-4 has surpassed human intelligence in some areas.

SoftBank CEO: I use GPT-4 almost every day.

SoftBank CEO: No one except myself believes that artificial general intelligence will become a reality within 10 years.

SoftBank CEO: Artificial general intelligence is 10 times the sum of all human intelligence.

SoftBank CEO: I believe we can achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) within 10 years.

SoftBank CEO: Artificial general intelligence is AI that surpasses human intelligence in almost all fields.