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Elith Inc. is pleased to announce that a session planned by its Representative Director, CEO & CTO Koki Inoue, and Machine Learning Engineer / Researcher Shosei Nakamura—titled "Does Adding More Rules Actually Make LLMs Safer? A Practitioner Discussion on Prompt Intervention"—has been accepted as a Community Activity at "TrustCon 2026," one of the world's largest international conferences in the Trust & Safety field. TrustCon is an international conference that brings together practitioners and researchers from around the...

Elith Inc. announces that its research theme, "Development of ‘FinGuard,’ an AI Guardrail Model Specialized for Financial Operations," proposed jointly with Chubu University, has been selected in the 4th call for proposals of "GENIAC (Generative AI Accelerator Challenge)," a project run by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to strengthen Japan’s domestic generative AI development capabilities. GENIAC is a national project that supports the development of competitive generative AI foundation models within Japan. It is being promoted with the aim of strengthening Japan-originated generative AI technology and accelerating its industrial application. The "safety" required of financial AI In recent years,

Elith Inc. believes that securing and enabling excellent talent to thrive is essential for the development of its research and development business, and will therefore improve compensation through a wage increase. [Wage increase plan announcement] For researchers participating in our R&D business in fiscal year Reiwa 8 (2026), we declare that we will increase the average salary paid by 1.5% or more year over year. Target period: From April 1, Reiwa 8 (2026) Details: The average salary paid to researchers will increase by 1.5% or more year over year. We will continue to work on building an environment where employees can pursue research with motivation.

Elith Inc. announces its participation in "Open Safeguard Hackathon," an international hackathon co-hosted by ROOST, Hugging Face, and OpenAI, held in San Francisco, USA on December 8, 2025. The hackathon was held as a venue to practically verify and develop open, community-driven AI safety technologies aimed at addressing AI-related online risks and harms. Experts working at the forefront of policy, research, and product implementation gathered for intensive discussion and development around the use of safety models and related challenges. About 75 people from tech companies, research institutions, and nonprofit organizations, mainly from the United States, participated on the day. OpenAI's rele