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¥5,000 for every Onamae.com Cloud user, disclosure demands for APP and 9 others, Sustana acquisition — and 5 more | BPJ News

From post-outage compensation to paper-sourcing scrutiny and funding for AI infrastructure, the range of costs manufacturers must bear is widening.

Outage compensation, forest investigations and a recycled-paper acquisition are bringing into view costs that sit outside a printer's quote. The European economy and Southeast Asian gas supply are putting pressure on both packaging demand and processing costs.

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In paper procurement, the questions now extend beyond certification to corporate relationships and responses to forest fires. AI costs depend not only on model performance, but also on electricity, permits and financing.

GMO will pay ¥5,000 to every user of the affected cloud service, and cover losses from fraudulent trades…

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