4 verified, source-linked AI implementations documented between 2024–2025.
Ask! NIKKEI launched for subscribers on web; mobile app planned; supports subscriber acquisition and retention
Lawsuit against Perplexity AI (Tokyo District Court, Aug 2025) alleging reproduction and public transmission rights violations including scraping of paywalled content; claims Perplexity displayed Nikkei as source while presenting incorrect information damaging outlet's credibility
A non-technical Nikkei reporter builds an AI in ~15 minutes with only clicks), a reporter used the no-code AutoML platform AMATERAS RAY (with LightGBM under the hood) to build a model predicting the Nikkei 225 average and analysing economic indices — showing how accessible machine learning has become for journalists without a coding background.
Nikkei is one of 13 organizations in Japan documented in the index, which holds 24 cases from the country. Its work spans 3 function types, including Audience Experience & Personalisation, documented across 110 organizations worldwide.