September 17, 2026

Hiroshi Tanaka

Hiroshi Tanaka
Hiroshi holds a B.Eng. in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo and an M.S. in Interactive Media from NYU. He began prototyping AR for museums, crafting interactions that respected both artifacts and visitors. Later he led enterprise VR training projects, partnering with ergonomics teams to reduce fatigue and measure learning outcomes beyond “completion.” He writes about spatial computing’s human factors, gesture design that scales, and realistic metrics for immersive training. Hiroshi contributes to open-source scene authoring tools, advises teams on onboarding users to 3D interfaces, and speaks about comfort and presence. Offscreen, he practices shodō, explores cafés with a tiny sketchbook, and rides a folding bike that sparks conversations at crosswalks.
    AI Ethics

    Building an AI Governance Committee: Roles, Cadence, and Artifacts

    An AI governance committee only works when it has defined roles, a real cadence, and artifacts to show for its meetings. Most mature

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    AI Infrastructure

    Chip Export Controls: How Trade Policy Reshapes the AI Supply Chain

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    Agentic AI

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    Scaling Inference

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    Quantization trades precision for memory, and the loss is never evenly distributed. What INT8 and INT4 actually cost, why outlier features break naive

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    Uncategorized

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    Humanoid

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    The landscape of robotics has undergone a seismic shift. As of March 2026, the debate over whether robots should have wheels, tracks, or

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    Circular Economy

    Robots in the Circular Economy: Automated Sorting and Recycling

    The global waste crisis is no longer a distant threat; it is an immediate operational and environmental challenge. As of March 2026, the

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    Agentic Content Curation

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    AI

    Agentic Governance: Building Guardrails for AI Autonomy

    The transition from passive AI chatbots to active AI agents marks the most significant shift in technology since the dawn of the internet.

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    Culture

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    Culture

    How AI tools are leveling the playing field for creators

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    Culture Creator Economy

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    Culture Internet Culture

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    Culture Tech Careers

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    The shift to distributed work has liberated millions from the daily commute, but it has also introduced a silent adversary: professional isolation. Without

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    AI Robotics

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