TAKAHASHI, Okayama Prefecture--A university lab is providing artificial intelligence-based probabilities on whether a sea of clouds will form around the “mountain castle in the sky” here.

Now, by using artificial intelligence (AI) to process data collected by various low-Earth-orbit satellites, the Japanese satellite communications company SKY Perfect JSAT, based in Tokyo ...

AI systems, and the cloud technology that enables them, won’t drift away on a breeze. For all their faults, they’re here to ...