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AI is leaving the screen. Tokyo spent two days with it.

This week the Humanoids Summit came to Tokyo. Two days at the Takanawa Convention Center. Toyota, Honda, Disney Research, Google DeepMind, Boston Dynamics, McKinsey, Nvidia, and Japan’s METI in the same rooms. Brittany Arthur, our CEO, was the MC. She opened the summit and gave the closing remarks both days.

So we had a seat at the front for all of it.

A few things kept surfacing. Hands, again and again. Touch. Whether people will accept these machines in a shared space, and whether they hold up once they leave a controlled floor. Capability was everywhere in that room. Most of the talking was about everything around it.

In our Future Signals 2026 report, we called this Signal 4. Beyond the Screen. The screen is no longer the boundary of what AI can affect. For years AI read text and made images and stayed behind glass. That boundary is dissolving, and Tokyo was two days of watching it dissolve in person.

The report was really about the architecture of intent. When AI can execute almost anything, the scarce thing is knowing what is worth executing. The hand is solvable. The reason to build the hand is a human question, and it stays one no matter how good the hand gets.

AI is getting a physical vocabulary. Tokyo made that plain. The work that matters next is deciding what we point it at.

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Every governance conversation is an AI conversation.

This May, DTJ presents at the AI Global Governance Summer School in Brussels, part of a program featuring the European Commission, Carnegie Europe, NATO, and Leiden University. One of the most serious rooms in the world for AI policy and regulation.

We will present our Future Signals 2026 research: five structural shifts reshaping how AI gets built, governed, and deployed globally. One of those signals is 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱, the fracturing of the global AI order along sovereign fault lines, with EU AI Act enforcement scheduled for August 2026.
We will also preview 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝘁𝗹𝗮𝘀, our live geopolitical intelligence map built directly from that signal. Infrastructure dependencies, bloc alignment, and shift detection across 195 countries.
𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟯𝟬.

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AIが何でも実行できる時代、戦略的優位は「何を実行すべきか」を知る者に移る。それがArchitecture of Intentであり、Future Signals 2026の核心です。

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When AI can execute anything, the strategic advantage shifts to those who know what's worth executing. That's the Architecture of Intent, and it's what Future Signals 2026 is built around.

Five signals that show you exactly where to place your intention and your organization's energy right now. Whether you're starting, building, or scaling, this report was crafted with you in mind. Between 85 and 90% directional accuracy in 2025.

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Design Thinking Japan is now an Official Training Partner for Microsoft Elevate in Japan
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