{
  "id": 6181704,
  "title": "Japan Moves to Commercializing Low-Power Optical Computing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/japan-moves-to-commercializing-low-power-optical-computing",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-07T21:56:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "News On Japan",
    "slug": "news-on-japan",
    "url": "https://newsonjapan.com/article/150662.php"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Japanese companies are moving closer to commercializing photonics-electronics convergence technology that replaces part of conventional electrical data transmission with optical signals, potentially allowing huge volumes of data to move with lower latency while sharply reducing power consumption as artificial intelligence drives rapid growth in electricity demand from data centers. (News On Japan)",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}