FamilyMart’s 16,500-store POS refresh, Claude’s invisible watermark, NYC’s one-year generative-AI pause — plus 7 more | BPJ News, Evening Edition
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FamilyMart will roll out a new POS register that can switch between staffed and self-checkout modes in a single unit, starting September 2026 across roughly 16,500 stores nationwide. In the US, debates over “how to allow” generative AI are splitting by venue: schools are pressing pause for a year, while courts are edging toward fair-use logic.
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FamilyMart will introduce a new POS register from September 2026 across roughly 16,500 stores nationwide, and AWS announced a new US–Japan subsea cable, “Sta’O’Nuk” (design capacity: 420 Tbps), with service scheduled to begin in 2029. In generative AI, it was reported that Anthropic has begun operating a machine-readable invisible watermark for output text and more in “Claude Fable 5.1” and “Claude Mythos 5.1,” available from September 1 (US time). In education, the NYC …
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